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World Arts West: People Like Me: Dance Styles

For Students 9th - 10th
This site creates a sort of Online Encyclopedia of World Dance which encompasses varying dance styles and dance cultures from around the world. Each dance style is linked to further information and dance move depictions.
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PE Central

Pe Central: Dance Lesson Ideas: Add on Line Dancing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
After inventing their own dance moves, students are to teach them to classmates. These lesson plans provide tips for encouraging creativity and getting all students involved in teaching and learning dance moves.
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PBS

Pbs: Geometry and Classification of 2 D Figures: Bianca Busts a Move

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this video from Cyberchase, Bianca breaks her friend's tabletop when she's practicing dance moves in his living room. She uses measurement and geometry to get a new piece of wood that will fit the table exactly. The accompanying...
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Young Dancers the 1st Dance Dedicated Site for Teens

For Students 9th - 10th
For anyone who loves dance, this is the place to be. Look at pictures, learn new moves, read dance quotes, and more!
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PE Central

Pe Central: Dancing on Different Levels

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Used in the preschool or lower elementary grades, this dance can reinforce the concepts of moving in a low, medium and high level as well as practicing movements to the right and left.
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PE Central

Pe Central: Dance Lesson Ideas: Follow the Leader Soca Style

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Student familiar with simple dance steps will enjoy this line dance activity, which helps students practice moving to music, following a leader's steps, and creating their own moves.
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PE Central

Pe Central: Dance Lesson Ideas: Staying Alive

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learn and teach a simple line dance created for the Bee Gees' song, "Stayin' Alive." Recommended for elementary young scholars, the dance steps provided here could easily be simplified (or made more difficult) for students of different...
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PE Central

Pe Central: Dance Lesson Ideas: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This website describes a simple line dance for the simple holiday song, "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." Also provides an option for simplifying the dance.
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PE Central

Pe Central: Aerobics: Dance Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In groups, students invent and practice a dance to be part of a larger aerobics routine. Also, students must evaluate their project, explain the roles each team member had in the creation of the routine, and write a creative paper...
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Susan Kramer: Singing While Dancing to Learn Basic Math

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Students will master basic rhythmic movements and incorporate songs and rhymes into math learning. Site provides sample music selections, songs, and accompanying movements for nine activities.
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Dancesport Uk: Cha Cha

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes what the Cha-cha dance is. It has a picture of two dancers and lists different dance moves, divided into three categories according to how advanced they are: bronze, silver and gold.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Moving With Mathematics [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this instructional activity, students explore the concepts of fractions, percentages, and decimals by creating dances using locomotor and non-locomotor movements.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Moving Sound [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
In this lesson, 4th graders will use movement and dance composition to aid their comprehension of sound and sound waves.
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Physics of the "Hardest Move" in Ballet

For Students 9th - 10th
In the third act of "Swan Lake", the Black Swan pulls off a seemingly endless series of turns, bobbing up and down on one pointed foot and spinning around and around and around.. How is this move- which is called a fouette- even...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Jingle Bells Paper Plate Dance

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson teaches learners a series of dance steps in order to move rhythmically to a song while also manipulating a paper plate.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Dancing to New Heights

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson plan for young students to move their bodies in specific ways. Warm-up exercises are done to culturally diverse music. (Note: Lesson references a book that is not included and contains a link to a song that does not work.)
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PBS

Pbs Newshour Extra: Neuroscience Basics Through Puzzles and Dance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This interesting lesson plans uses giant neutron puzzles, the game of telephone, and dance to explain how transmitters and receptors work in neurotransmission.
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PE Central

Pe Central: Dance Lesson Ideas: Larger Than Life Line Dance

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn and teach a few simple moves that will help students feel comfortable with line dancing. Students practice listening and moving to music during this simple and fun gym-class activity.
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PE Central

Pe Central: Dance Lesson Ideas: Cool Line

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Use the guidelines provided at this website to introduce young students to a simple line dance. Children will learn to move to a beat while participating in a fun, low-impact aerobic activity.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Moving Shapes [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
These activities will allow students to discover the concepts of geometry through shape exploration and the creation of choreographic sequences.
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PBS

Peep and the Big Wide World: Shapes and Patterns

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This interactive game focuses on repeated patterns to create dance moves.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Moving With Fractions [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th Standards
In this lesson, 4th graders use movement phrases to model common fractions and decimal fractions with like denominators. They compare the fraction of locomotor and non-locomotor movements in a movement phrase. Students then create their...
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Susan Kramer: Body Mind Rhythmic Movement

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Susan Kramer's online book is available as a free resource for teaching basic movements and dance skills. The text is broken down into seven sections. You can access information on anatomy, rhythms, creative movements, rhythmic...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat: Printable Games and Activities

For Students Pre-K - K
Move and play with these activities from Peg + Cat! From playing hide and seek and imagining pirate stories to dancing like Misty Copeland, you will find a treasure of fun ideas in these five printable activities.

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