Content Area: Visual and Performing Arts

 

Index: 1.2A Grade 2 CPI 1

 

Standard: 1.2 - Creation and Performance

 

Strand: A - Dance

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will perform planned and improvised dance sequences using the elements of time, space/shape, and energy.

 

Grade: 2

 

Sample Activities:

 

Locomotor Movement - Use of any four locomotor movements (e.g. skip, hop, run, walk, glide, slide, jump, gallop, leap).

    ·        Vary movement with low, medium, and high levels.

    ·        Add pathways such as curved, straight, zigzag.

    ·        Combine a locomoteo skill, a level, and a pathway.

    ·        Create a dance phrase of at least four combinations.

    ·        Practice and perform the create movement piece.

 

Essential Questions:

    ·        What was the most difficult part to practice and perform and why?

    ·        What would happen if you mixed up the order of the movement phrases?

 

Reflective Practice - Could you do your movement piece while walking down the street?

 

The contents of the CPI's and Framework Activites come from the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards (NJCCCS) - CD-ROM (Version 1.0), which was developed collaboratively by the Newark Teachers Union (NTU) and Seton Hall University (SHU)

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