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ERIC Number: EJ1230662
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0730-3084
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Moving Green, Going Green: An Interdisciplinary Creative Dance Experience
Cleland Donnelly, Frances E.; Millar, Vicki Faden
Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, v90 n8 p20-33 2019
Creative dance is an engaging and empowering educational medium. Creative dance provides children with a comfortable, noncompetitive arena where they can explore, discover, and share what they think and feel in the purest of bodily expression. This manuscript highlights a standards based creative dance lesson designed to educate elementary students in grades 3 through 5 about the environmentally responsible activity of repurposing. Students are prompted to explore a sequence of movement tasks based on a poem about a repurposed quilt made from old jeans! In addition the implementation of the four learning modalities or "sensory channels": visual, auditory, kinesthetic and tactile, Moving Green, Going Green permit students to learn about their environment through their bodies, and capitalize on preferred senses while enhancing weaker ones. Key to this manuscript is the implementation of the movement framework--the foundation of creative dance. The movement framework outlines the components of dance: body, space, time, effort, and relationships. With the framework as a base to work from, teachers can effectively guide students through a process of thinking divergently, developing ideas, refining ideas, and ultimately expressing those ideas through movement that is unique to them. In addition the use of Universal Learning for Design (UDL) and how it can be used to support the inclusion of all learners is explained.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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