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There are a lot of dancing minds out there at work, developing great ways to integrate dance with curriculum.  Here are a few resources, shared via email on NDEO’s K-12 Special Interest Group Forum.*  These resources offer some nitty gritty about how-to’s & what-do-you-need?’s…

Books:

• Teaching the 3Rs through Movement Experiences, by Anne Green Gilbert; suggested by Rima Faber
• Teaching Academics through Movement, by Becky Ellis; suggested by Rima Faber
• Interdisciplinary Learning through Dance: 101 Moventures, by Lynette Overby; suggested by Lynette Overby:

Integrated Dance units, suggested by Sandra Stratton-Gonzalez, available online, such as:

• “The Beat of Your Feet on the City Streets: Creating Dances from Poetry,”2nd grade, integrating Dance, English Language Arts, Social Studies
• “Bringing History to Life Through Dance: The Underground Rainroad,” by Ana Nery Fragoso for 5th grade, integrating Dance & Social Studies

Lesson plans from the Kennedy Center’s Artedge:

• Lessons plans integrating Dance, K-4
• Lesson plans integrating Dance, 5-8
• Lessons plans integrating Dance, 9-12

More resources on K-12 integration, from general advocacy to specific ideas, from NDEO’s online store.

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*NDEO (National Dance Education Organization) has a set of email forums for special interest groups within the field, where NDEO members exchange ideas. Folks not belonging to NDEO who are interested in this or any other topic on dance education should consider joining NDEO and the online discussion! Current members can get discounted prices, if they use user name & password to order resources from the online store.