{"product_id":"building-dances-a-guide-to-putting-movements-together-9780736050890","title":"Building Dances: A Guide to Putting Movements Together","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor years  K-12 teachers have been relying on the invaluable tools and blueprints in Building Dances and Building More Dances to help their students put movements together. Now  with Building Dances  Second Edition  the original text has been significantly expanded and updated to give you even more tools to guide your students as they experiment with the creative processeven if youve never taught or choreographed dance. Like the earlier books  this guide puts you in the role of facilitator rather than demonstrator. Using the dance construction models provided  youll explain the material  teach the necessary skills  direct the action  and assess the outcomes . . . letting your students focus on the creative work. Building Dances  Second Edition  follows the same winning approach that made the first edition so popular. It takes you step by step through the choreographic process  with sample lesson plans  warm-up ideas  and seven easy steps to follow when building a dance  plus even more great material: A convenient  expanded  ready-to-use deck of Deal-A-Dance cards Updated dance-building activities  called Dance Construction Models  reformatted and expanded to include loads of new information and six new activities An expanded glossary explaining important dance terms in everyday language New forms and checklists to make the assessment process easier for you and your students This edition contains a total of 15 Dance Construction Models  including 6 never before published. Each construction model provides concrete ideas to help students shape dance movements  perhaps to create a scene  communicate a story  foster an idea  or interpret a piece of music. And now the Dance Construction Models have been redesigned to make them even easier to use! Each one includes a description of the activity or procedure  an example  cross-references to the national standards for dance and for physical education  easy adaptations for three different grade levels (grades K-4  5-8  and 9-12)  and criteria for student assessments. Youll find four types of sample rubrics for each one  with specific criteria for movement skills  cognitive skills  choreographic and creative process  and social and aesthetic skills. The unique Deal-a-Dance cardsone of the most popular Dance Construction Modelshave also been expanded and reformatted to get students even more involved in creating and assessing their own work. The cards provide more than 230 movement ideas to get the creative juices flowing. Each card presents a definition of a selected movement term  a description of that movement  multiple suggestions for students to try  challenges that encourage them to put movements together to form phrases and dances  and a self-evaluation question. The cards are excellent hands-on tools that allow students to work at their own pace  either individually or in small groups. You can use them for a single lesson  a unit  or an entire semester of work. This edition also contains new ideas to help you connect dance to other disciplines and increase students engagement  plus new criteria for writing rubrics and suggestions on how to expand simple dances into whole productions for PTA and other student performance settings. Whether youre a physical education teacher  drama coach  music teacher  dance teacher  classroom teacher  or recreation specialist  this book will help you stimulate your students imaginations. Use it alone or together with the companion resource  Building More Dances  to help your students experience the joy of building their own dances.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279594676277,"sku":"ByrdShop_0736050892","price":70.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780736050890.jpg?v=1780603239","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/building-dances-a-guide-to-putting-movements-together-9780736050890","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}