Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
WINTHROP UNIVERSITY
Educator: Brittany M. Johnson
Date: 09/19/2014
Target Age Group/ Grade: 6th
Length of Lesson: 40 minutes
Focus of Lesson: Todays lesson will focus on the contrasting qualities of plants and animals
through the use of AB choreographic structure.
Materials: Promethean board, white board, markers, eraser, PowerPoint, checklists, iPod, stereo,
sentence strips
Resources: Support Documents for the Grade 6 South Carolina Academic Standards and
Performance Indicators for Science,
http://www.ket.org/artstoolkit/dance/glossary.htm#compositionalforms
National/ State Curriculum Standards:
Life Science
Standard:
6.L.4: The student will demonstrate an understanding of how scientists classify organisms and
how the structures, processes, behaviors, and adaptations of animals allow them to survive.
Indicator:
6.L.4A.2 Develop and use models to classify organisms based on the current hierarchical
taxonomic structure (including the kingdoms of protists, plants, fungi, and animals).
Dance
Standard 2:
The student will implement choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
Indicator:
D6-2.4 Create original dance phrases or brief movement studies that demonstrate the principles
of contrast and transition.
Vocabulary:
Introduced Vocabulary
Heterotrophs- animals eat other organisms to store chemical energy
Autotrophs- plants use sunlight as a source of chemical energy
AB Form- a two part compositional form with an A theme and a B theme. The binary form
consists of two distinct self-contained sections
Reviewed Vocabulary
Level- high, middle, low
Locomotor- movements that travel throughout the space
Instructional
Procedures
Assessment of Each
Objective