Heredity
Dance about heredity, specifically organisms and their traits; parents and their offspring; and how organisms survive their environments.
Resources
- Visuals of environments
- Visuals of parents with their offspring (in humans and animals) – notice the similarities
- Sun of Jamaica by Cusco
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
Integrated Standards
- SCIENCE STANDARD #5: Students will understand that traits are passed from the parent organisms to their offspring, and that sometimes the offspring may possess variations of these traits that may help or hinder survival in a given environment.
- OBJECTIVE 1 Using supporting evidence, show that traits are transferred from a parent organism to its offspring.
- OBJECTIVE 2 Describe how some characteristics could give a species a survival advantage in a particular environment.
Objectives
Fifth grade students will understand heredity (organisms and their traits, parents and their offspring, and organisms surviving their environments due to particular traits) through dance improvisation and choreographic assignments.