Adventures in Creative Movement Activities: A Guide to Teaching As there are minimal resources for the Dance K-7, they are listed in this one file A-Z
Resources are also available for: Drama K-7, Music K-7 and Visual Arts K-7.
Adventures in Creative Movement Activities: A Guide to Teaching
Author(s): Lloyd, Marcia L.
General Description: Illustrated book contains detailed lesson plans for a range of movement activities. It explains the movement components of body, time, space, and force, and provides ideas for props and extension activities.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Creation and Composition
Elements of Movement
Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: K-7 Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
Eddie Bauers
2600 Jackson Street
Dubuque, IA
Tel:1-800-747-2411
Price: $19.25 U.S. Funds Order Number: 967-914-392-9/0-945483-59-7NDA
Can
You Speak Dance?
Author(s): Van Gyn; Van Sant
General Description: Book provides teaching strategies, lesson ideas, and activities for dance. An accompanying video demonstrates sample lessons. Useful for teachers new to teaching dance.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Creation and Composition
Elements of Movement
Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: K-6 Year Recommended: 1995
Also Recommended For: Physical Education
Supplier:
University of Victoria, Audio-Visual and TV Services
P.O. Box 3010-MS7874
Victoria, BC
V8W 3N4
Tel: (250) 721-7860 Fax: (250) 721-6603
Price: (not available) Order Number: (not available)
Contrast and Continuum: Music for Creative Dance, Volume I
Author(s): Chappelle, Eric
General Description: CD features 16 melodies for creative movement. Accompanying support material describes each track by tempo, time, and theme. Includes suggested activities and concepts for each track. Ideas for activities are taken from the recommended title Creative Dance for All Ages, by Anne Green Gilbert, but music titles are not cross-referenced to Gilbert's book. Please refer to the separate annotation for further information.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Creation and Composition
Dance and Society
Elements of Movement
Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: K-10 Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
Ravenna Ventures, Inc.
4756 University Village Pl. North East #117
Seattle, WA 98105
Tel: (206) 522-7799
Price: $18.00 U.S. Funds Order Number: RVCD9301NDA
Contrast and Continuum: Music for Creative Dance, Volume II
Author(s): Chappelle, Eric
General Description: CD features 21 melodies for creative movement. Accompanying support material describes each track by tempo, time, and theme. Includes suggested activities and concepts for each track. Ideas for activities are taken from the recommended title Creative Dance for All Ages, by Anne Green Gilbert, but music titles are not cross-referenced toGilbert's book. Please refer to the separate annotation for further information.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Creation and Composition
Dance and Society
Elements of Movement
Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: K-10 Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
Ravenna Ventures, Inc.
4756 University Village Pl. North East #117
Seattle, WA 98105
Tel: (206) 522-7799
Price: $18.00 U.S. Funds Order Number: RVCD9401NDA
Creative Dance
General Description: Comprehensive resource for teaching creative dance includes rationale, overview, and detailed lesson plans. Includes sequences for skill development and charts of dance elements.
Audience:
General
Gifted - opportunities for divergent thinking
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Creation and Composition
Elements of Movement
Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: K-7 Year Recommended: 1996
Supplier:
CAHPERD
1600 James Naismith Drive
Gloucester, ON
K1B 5N4
Tel: (613) 748-5622 Fax: (613) 748-5737
Price: (not available) Order Number: 0-919068-66-9
Creative Dance Experiences for Children - Volumes 1 to 4
Author(s): Boorman, J.; Carline, S.; Vallance, J.
General Description: Four booklets and four audio cassettes provide movement ideas, music, and stories for creative expression.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Creation and Composition
Elements of Movement
Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: 4-7 Year Recommended: 1995
Also Recommended For: Physical Education
Supplier:
Can.-Ed. Media Ltd.
43 Moccasin Trail
Don Mills, ON
M3C 1Y5
Tel: (416) 445-3900
Price: $74.00 Order Number: DC1-593
Creative Dance for All Ages
Author(s): Green Gilbert, Anne
General Description: Book explains the theory of elements of movement and provides a method of teaching movements with sample lesson plans. It incorporates a practical approach to classroom management, use of facilities, and grouping according to physical development. Useful for specialist and generalist.
Caution: Teachers will need to be aware of comfort levels of each child with regard to touching.
Audience:
General
Gifted - provides suggestions to include those children who already dance
LD - sample lesson plans use plain, simple language of instruction
Physical Disabilities - provides suggestions for inclusion
Deaf or Hard of Hearing - provides suggestions for inclusion
Blind/Visual Impairments - provides suggestions for inclusion
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Creation and Composition
Elements of Movement
Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: K-10 Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
American Alliance for Health
1900 Association Drive Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
Reston, VA
22091
Tel: (301) 839-9808 Fax: (301) 567-9553
Price: $17.50 U.S. Funds Order Number: 0-88314-532-4/A532-4
The Creative Dance Keys Kit
Author(s): Rubin, Linda
General Description: Teacher's guide, video, and audio cassette with music encourage exploration of elements of creative dance. The teacher's guide is organized into laminated key shapes that describe dance movements, exercises, and evaluation. Vocabulary cards provide ideas for dance composition. Video demonstrates ideas presented on cards.
Caution: There are exercises in which teachers may need to address safety risks (e.g., lifting, balancing on other students' bodies). Teachers will need to be aware of comfort levels of each child regarding touching.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Creation and Composition
Elements of Movement
Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: K-8 Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
Synergy Movement Workshops
13903 48th Avenue
Edmonton, AB
T6H 0G1
Tel: (403) 437-1156 Fax: (403) 430-8993
Price: $300.00 Order Number: 9696137-0-9/0001
Dance at Court
General Description: Fifty-eight-minute documentary explores culture through dance in the context of royal courts in various parts of the world such as France, Japan, Indonesia, Ghana, and Java. It is part of the Dancing Series, which addresses dance history and the cultural origins of dance.
Audience:
General
Gifted - highly academic approach to dance history
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Creation and Composition
Dance and Society
Elements of Movement
Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: 6-12 Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
BC Learning Connection
#4 - 8755 Ash Street
Vancouver, BC
V6P 6T3
Tel: (604) 324-7752
Fax: (604) 324-1844
or toll-free 1-800-884-2366
Price: $22.00 Order Number: VA3000
Dance Education Initiative
Author(s): White, E.; Bucek, L.
General Description: Resource package comprises a resource binder, three supplementary booklets, and two summaries, one of which is on a Macintosh computer disk. The components comprehensively relate dance to child and adolescent development. Focusses on dance making, dance sharing, dance inquiry, and dance movement vocabulary. Suitable for a specialist or a serious enthusiast.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Creation and Composition
Dance and Society
Elements of Movement
Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: K-12 Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
Minnesota Center for Arts Education
6125 Olson Memorial Highway
Golden Valley, MN
55422
Tel: (612) 591-4709 Fax: (612) 591-4747
Price:
Resource Binder: $15.00
Print Summary: $5.00
Software Summary: $5.00
Order Number: (not available)
Dance for Young Children: Finding the Magic in Movement
Author(s): Stinson, Sue
General Description: Book explores the challenge and excitement of creating physical movement for dance. It contains lesson plans, suggested themes for using dance movements, guidance for classroom management, information on children with special needs, suggested materials to incorporate into lessons, and suggestions on how to involve parents.
Caution: Use of term Indian noted on page 136.
Audience:
General
Physical Disabilities - strategies for inclusion
Blind/Visual Impairments - strategies for inclusion
Severe Behaviour Disorders - strategies for inclusion
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Creation and Composition
Elements of Movement
Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: K-3 Year Recommended: 1995
Also Recommended For: Physical Education
Supplier:
American Alliance for Health
1900 Association Drive Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
Reston, VA
22091
Tel: (301) 839-9808 Fax: (301) 567-9553
Price: $11.00 U.S. Funds Order Number: 0-88314-381-X/A381X
Form Without Formula: A Concise Guide to the Choreographic Process
Author(s): Beatty, Patricia
General Description: Book describes the choreographic process in sections on movement, building skills, narrative, abstraction, music, sets, props, titles, performing space, lighting, costuming, and concepts. Ideas and activities to implement the main topics are organized sequentially.
Audience:
General
Gifted - opportunities for in-depth analysis, extension, and lateral thinking
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Creation and Composition
Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: 7-12 Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
Dance Collection Danse
145 George St.
Toronto, ON
M5A 2M6
Tel: (416) 365-3233 Fax: (416) 365-3169
Price: $8.50 Order Number: 929003-17-9
The Making of a Dancer
General Description: Forty-nine-minute video documents the story of a 20-year-old male Canadian factory worker who, through inspiration and determination, becomes a gifted ballet dancer. Stephan Leonard is followed to Russia, where he trains and then performs. Includes clips from interviews with him and his main instructors.
Audience:
General
Gifted - can be used for independent study
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Creation and Composition
Dance and Society
Elements of Movement
Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: 7-12 Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
BC Learning Connection
#4 - 8755 Ash Street
Vancouver, BC
V6P 6T3
Phone: (604) 324-7752
Fax:
(604) 324-1844
or toll-free: 1-800-884-2366
Price: $22.00 Order Number: VA3004
Movement Improvisation: In the Words of a Teacher and Her Students
Author(s): Schneer, Georgette
General Description: Book describes how to teach expressive movement. It offers principles and techniques for conducting a creative-movement class and features a table with 163 themes for eliciting genuine impromptu responses. Categorizes themes by experience level, number of participants, and purpose.
Audience: General
Category: Professional Reference
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Creation and Composition
Elements of Movement
Grade Level: K-10 Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
Human Kinetics Canada
Box 24040 1275 Walker Road
Windsor, ON
N8Y 4Y9
Tel: 1-800-465-7301 Fax: (519) 944-7614
Price: $29.50 Order Number: 0-87322-530-9/BSCH0530
The Power of Dance
General Description: Fifty-eight-minute documentary video explores global cultural exchange through dance. It examines the mix of cultures influencing North American dance: First Nations, Cajun, and Indian. Discusses how cultures influence dance styles and how technology affects dance.
Audience:
General
ESL - authentic representation of various cultural influences in dance
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Creation and Composition
Dance and Society
Elements of Movement
Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: 2-12 Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
International Tele-Film Enterprises Ltd.
Suite #301, 5090 Explorer Drive
Mississauga, ON
L4W 4T9
Tel: 1-800-561-4300 Fax: (905) 629-1211
Price: $22.00 Order Number: VA3002
Teaching
Beginning Dance Improvisation
General Description: Two 60-minute videotapes present a series of activities for teaching improvisation. Accompanying teacher's workbook manual provides clearly stated objectives, lesson goals, activities, teaching hints, and coaching phrases.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Creation and Composition
Dance and Society
Elements of Movement
Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: K-12 Year Recommended: 1995
Also Recommended For: Physical Education
Supplier:
Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company
Capitol Theatre 50 West 200th South
Salt Lake City, UT
84101
Tel: (801) 323-6801 Fax: (801) 359-3504
Price: $205.00 U.S. Funds Order Number: (not available)
Upper Elementary Children: Moving and Learning
Author(s): Pica, Rae
General Description: Resource binder and two audio cassettes with music enable students to explore movement and self-expression through solving movement problems. Problems are organized by theme. The binder contains 120 movement activities in 40 well-organized lesson plans. Includes evaluation suggestions.
Caution: Teachers need to be aware of comfort levels of students for the "On Balance" and "Close Relations" sections.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Elements of Movement
Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: 2-10 Year Recommended: 1995
Also Recommended For: Physical Education
Supplier:
Human Kinetics Canada
Box 24040 1275 Walker Road
Windsor, ON
N8Y 4Y9
Tel: 1-800-465-7301 Fax: (519) 944-7614
Price: $65.95 Order Number: 0-87322-468-X/PBIC0468
The Young Dancer
Author(s): Bussell, Darcey
General Description: Book describes and illustrates the world of ballet through sections on the classical ballet steps, mime, make-up, costumes, character dancing, other dance forms, and choreography. Includes a detailed glossary and useful addresses.
Audience:
General
ESL - high interest; good key visuals are used, with a predictable pattern, and pictorial
support
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s):
Creation and Composition
Dance and Society
Elements of Movement
Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: 2-12 Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
Irwin Publishing
1800 Steeles Avenue West
Concord, ON
L4K 2P3
Tel: (905) 660-0611 Fax: (905) 660-0676
Price: $13.56 Order Number: 7737-27353
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