Angles Through Movement
Using elastic or stretchy strips of fabric, students will identify, move and create a dance of types of angles and lines.
Resources
- CD/iPod/music source
- Variety of music suggested
- Drum for signaling
- Chart of vocabulary words.
- Pictures of vocabulary real-world situations.
- 3-4 yard elastic/tricot strips, enough for half your class
Fine Art Standards
- STANDARD 1: Body awareness
- Standard 2: Investigating – The student identifies and demonstrates the dance elements of time, space, and energy.
- Standard 3: Creating – The student understands and demonstrates choreographic principles and processes in the art form of dance.
- Standard 4: Contextualizing
Integrated Standards
Geometry 4.G.A: Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.
Objectives
- Students will be able to execute the basic locomotor steps of dance and make angular shapes with their bodies and partners.
- Students will be able to identify the different types of angles and their parts.