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Product Identifiers

PublisherHuman Kinetics

ISBN-10073603000X

ISBN-139780736030007

eBay Product ID (ePID)22038707061

Product Key Features

Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School

Number of Pages224 Pages

Publication NameDance about Anything

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

SubjectPhysical Education, Dance / General

TypeStudy Guide

AuthorHelene Scheff, Marty Sprague, Susan Mcgreevy-Nichols

Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Education

FormatMixed Lot

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight14.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceElementary/High School

LCCN2005-030225

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromKindergarten

IllustratedYes

Grade ToTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal792.8071

Table Of ContentPreface How to Use This Book and CD-ROM Acknowledgments Introduction: The Role of Dance in Integrated Projects Part I. Inspiration: From Selecting Topics to Creating Short Movement Phrases Chapter 1. Concept Task: Choosing a Topic Chapter 2. Investigation Task: Researching the Topic Chapter 3. Exploration Task: Identifying Important Aspects of the Topic Part II. Dance Design: From Solving Movement Problems to Exhibition Chapter 4. Selection Task: Devising Movement Problems Chapter 5. Development and Refinement Tasks: Solving Movement Problems and Designing a Dance Chapter 6. Exhibition Task: Performing Completed Work and Accepting Final Critique Part III. Integrated Projects: From Thematic Planning to Exhibition Chapter 7. Defining and Creating Integrated Projects: The Process Is the Process Chapter 8. Moving the Project Forward: A Time Line Chapter 9. Sparking Students' Interest: Effective Teaching, Facilitating, and Coaching Chapter 10. Evaluating Integrated Projects: The Big Picture Part IV. Three Complete Themes and Integrated Projects Chapter 11. Cosmic Influences: Weather You Like It or Not Chapter 12. Community: Community Quilt Chapter 13. Prejudice and Human Rights: Anna and the King Glossary References About the Authors

SynopsisDance About Anything helps K-12 teachers learn the creative process for developing movement and dance around a theme--and how to integrate dance with other subjects. The book follows a logical progression of movement activities, increasing in complexity from inspiration and dance design to exhibition of the integrated project. It provides all the materials for teachers to facilitate the creative and critical-thinking skills related to planning integrated projects: -Students explore the dance-making process through seven easy-to-follow tasks that take them from inspiration and choosing a theme to solving movement problems and making movement phrases, culminating with work that involves dance design, revisions, and performance. -Students integrate dance with other subject areas such as science, math, social studies, visual arts, theater, language arts, and music. -Students work through integrated projects involving multiple subjects around a common theme. They learn how to transfer the work habits and strategies they learn through dance making to their work in other subjects, and then they showcase their work. Dance About Anything is organized into four parts. Part I outlines the creative process of choosing a theme for a dance and explains how movement phrases can be developed from almost any inspiration. Part II lays out the remaining tasks and steps on the path to exhibition. Part III shows how to develop and implement integrated projects. It discusses practical concerns about who, what, how, when, and where and provides a step-by-step guide for project completion. Part IV details three ready-to-use integrated projects with themes (weather, community, and prejudice and human rights). These are semester-length projects and can be used in advocating for awareness of the value of dance, connecting with other subjects, and getting students to work together on a unifying theme. The included CD-ROM provides more than 65 reproducible forms that fuel students' creativity and aid teachers in assessment. Among the forms are 8 Inspiration Activity Cards and 8 Dance Designing Activity Cards that cover a variety of themes, including those of the three complete projects provided in the book. The book includes ideas for written and oral assessment of students' progress, and the CD-ROM provides teachers with assessment forms for doing so. In addition, a template of integrated projects is included that gives readers an opportunity to create their own integrated projects, such as those found in part IV of the book. Dance About Anything provides the information and guidance that teachers and students need in order to become dance architects, designing and building dances and integrated projects from start to finish.

LC Classification NumberGV1589.S78 2006