Grade Level: 5th Grade Enduring Understanding: We can make inferences about a culture from its dances. Target: Get the feeling of a culture by learning a cultural dance. Assessment criteria: Students navigate the dance successfully. Target: Make inferences about a culture after doing a cultural dance. Assessment criteria: Students guess at possible generalizations, supported by […]
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Lesson Plan: Making Inferences about Culture
January 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Lesson Plans
Tags:culture·curriculum·curriculum integration·intermediate·lesson plans·standards·teaching·thinking skills
Lesson Plan: Using Focus in a Narrative Dance
November 16th, 2008 · Comments Off · Lesson Plans
Grade Levels: 1-5 Enduring Understanding: Narrative dance tells a story. The use of focus supports a story. Target: Choreograph narrative dances. Assessment criteria: Students’ dance shows a story, including a beginning, middle, and end. Target: Use focus to help tell the story. Assessment criteria: Students use focus in showing the story. Context: Students already completed […]
Tags:choreography·curriculum·focus·lesson plans·performance·reading·teaching