Grade and Subject: Dance, 9th Grade (Following Beginning Dance Standards)

Given a piece of choreography, students will be able to identify and describe emotions, ideas, and
experiences communicated through that choreography 9 out of 10 times.
Bloom’s Category: Understand

Presentation A PowerPoint will be PowerPoint will Assessment will be

presented with basic include videos from based on notes turned
information and online platforms such in for participation
examples of as YouTube or after presentation.
identification of TeacherTube.
emotions and ideas
conveyed through
choreography.

Demonstration Learners will view The choreography Assessment will be

choreography and will be viewed on based on
will embody basic online platforms such participation.
identifiers of different as YouTube or
emotions and ideas TeacherTube.
through the
choreography.

Drill-and-Practice: After viewing Choreography will be Assessment will be

Mini Whiteboards choreography, presented on done on the number
learners will write the Smartboard from an of appropriate
most prevalent online platform, such responses.
emotion expressed as YouTube or
throughout the piece. TeacherTube.
If answers differ
greatly, learners will
find a partner with a
different answer and
explain their thought
process to them.

Tutorials: Varied Learners will receive The organizer can be Assessment will be
Organizers an organizer to take made interactive made by review of
notes based on their online. organizers with key
level of for correct answers.
understanding.
Discussions: Sticky Learners will be An online random Assessment will be
Note Graphs asked whether or not name-picker can be based on appropriate
they think emotions used to choose participation.
are important in learners who will
dance. “Yes” or “no” explain their stance to
will suffice. After the class. Example of
placing sticky notes name-picker:
at a designated spot at www.abcya.com.
the front of the
classroom, chosen
learners will explain
why they chose that
answer to the class.

Problem-Based Given real-world Learners can record Assessment will be

Learning situations/emotions, the choreography that based on effective
learners will create they create to be participation.
choreography that viewed at a later time
conveys/actively and be the basis for a
portrays that class discussion.
situation/emotion.

Cooperative Learners will be put Groups can be Assessment will be

Learning: Jigsaw in groups of four and formed with an online based on
each assigned a generator, such as participation, and
different piece of www.ultimatesolver.c notes taken during
choreography, each om​. Additionally, activity and turned in.
with its own ideas videos will be shown
and emotions. After on laptops and/or
viewing, learners will iPads.
meet in their group to
discuss exactly how
these ideas and
emotions were
conveyed through the
dancers and the
choreography.

Gaming: Charades Learners will draw a An online random Assessment will be

card out of a bucket. name-picker, such as based on full
The card will have an www.abcya.com​, can participation in both
emotion/situation be used to pick the audience and mover.
written on it. The learner who draws
learner will attempt to from the bucket.
 convey the
emotion/situation
through movement.
The class will work
out what
emotion/situation is
on the card by the
learner’s movements.

Simulations: In groups of four, Learners can record Assessment will be

Stations/Centers students will travel themselves executing done on full
around classroom to the choreography participation in
different stations. At they create at each activity, recordings,
each station, there station, to be looked and class discussion.
will be a different at later and analyzed
emotion/idea to as whole class.
convey within
choreography.
Learners will then
receive 5-10 minutes
to brainstorm
choreography that
conveys that
emotion/idea.

Discovery: Orbitals Learners will have a Students will view Assessment will be
piece of choreography online. based on rubric given
choreography They will also have out with assignment
assigned to them at the option to create a directions.
the beginning of the technology-based
week. At end of project to present.
week, they will
present ideas and
feelings found in their
piece and how those
were conveyed.

Sources: ​https://www.fortheteachers.org/instructional_strategies/#Centers​, Accessed Feb 8, 2020.