Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.5A Grade 2 CPI 5

 

Standard: 2.5 - Motor Skills

 

Strand: A -   Movement Skills 

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 5 -  The student will respond in movement to changes in tempo, beat, rhythm, or musical style.

 

Grade: 2

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        DANCE TO THE MUSIC -  The “Chicken Dance” and the “Alley Cat” are two popular social dances that clearly demonstrate changes in the duration and speed of movement. When teaching these dances, discuss the concepts of acceleration and deceleration, the speeding up of the dance, and then the slowing at the conclusion. Discuss and demonstrate the concepts of levels, pathways, space, and flow in relation to the dance.


Variation: Use a percussion instrument to establish a tempo. Students perform a particular locomotor or nonlocomotor movement to the beat. Change the movement and vary the tempo.

 

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