Communities
Dance about different communities and learn that people have similarities and differences in the world.
Resources
- Visuals to represent each community
- Music (see chart below for music selections that match each community)
- Drum to use as needed
Fine Art Standards
- DANCE STANDARD 2: The student will identify and demonstrate movement elements (time, space, energy and motion) in performing dance.
- DANCE STANDARD 3: The student will improvise, create, perform, and respond to movement solutions in the art form of dance.
Integrated Standards
SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARD 1: (Culture): Students will recognize and describe how people within their community, state, and nation are both similar and different.
Objectives
Second grade students will understand that people have similarities and differences all over the world as they dance about different types of communities: individuals, families, neighborhoods, cities, states, countries, continents and the world.