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Dance Teacher Support

K-12 Licensed Teachers

An area for K-12 licensed dance teachers to find inspiration and lesson plans.

-All lesson plans follow NDEO national standards

-Download includes full lesson plan and accompanying worksheets

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Materials

Materials

Children with books in a library

Dance Picture Books

Teacher Reading List

Action Word List

Formations Guide

Teaching Aids

Scattered across a wooden table are 5 Laban vocabulary posters in a pastel color pallet. Text indicates there are 18 posters that are downloadable and printable in both color and monochrome.

Scattered across a wooden table are 4 posters in a pastel rainbow color pallet. Cartoon pictures of canons, Flamenco dancers, and balloons decorate the pages. Text indicates there are 20 posters that are downloadable and printable in both color and monochrome.

A white poster with a pink, blue, and purple table listing career paths for dancers. The poster is laying on a light wood table. Also pictured is male dancer in a hat posing with one arm pointing to the poster.

Worksheets

4 white papers on a light wood table. Papers have pictures of children in workout attire doing physical exercises as well as text directions for students and teachers to create their own warm-up in the classroom.

Coloring and build it worksheets laying on a light wood table. Worksheets feature an image of a girl with arrows identifying body parts in both English and Spanish.

Three worksheets on the human muscular system laying on a light wood table. Worksheets feature a vector image of a girl in a yellow dress with muscle vocabulary.

Two white paper worksheets on a light wooden desk. The worksheets display a human skeleton with bone identifications.

Three dance worksheets about the elements of dance scattered on a wooden desk. The top worksheet pictures a stage with directional arrows. The two other worksheets have pictures of children in various dance poses and some orange directional cones.

A picture of two worksheets on a blonde wooden table. The worksheets contain 4 boxes where students can circle movement choices on the elements of dance: body, space and time. Then students use the worksheet to perform their created choreography.

Two worksheet pages laying on a blonde wood desk. The pages show graphically organized questionnaires for students.

Activities/Games

Two colorful sheets of paper laying on a light wood desk. On the papers you can see written text outlined by a forest border.

A black and white worksheet sitting on a light wood table. The worksheet displays a BINGO card table with prompts for students to complete.

Three worksheets laying on a wood desk. One worksheet displays kids doing various exercises while the other two are black and white snowflake coloring pages. Colored pencils are also laying on the table.

Download includes:

- 1 Exercise choice board with 4 achievement levels
- 2 monthly coloring page trackers

3 worksheets laying on a light wood desk. The worksheets show pictures of cartoon children playing games. Tic-tac-toe, hangman, and sit-ups.

Sketched pictures of dancers, tutus and ballet pointe shoes on a purple card stock. Pictures assist in completing a mindful breathing strategy where you trace your finger while breathing deep and slow.

Black and white coloring page featuring 4 hip hop dancing skeletons with pumpkin heads under a full moon with bats flying.

Thanksgiving themed activities and games for the dance classroom.

Download includes:

- 8 printable game directions
- 1 coloring page

A black and white coloring page featuring two Nutcracker characters dancing in front of a Christmas tree. The page lays on top of a blonde wood table with scattered colored pencils.

Printable food cards on a light wood table. The cards picture strawberries, corn and rice on a food group game board. Also pictured is a black and white document detailing the rules for the game.

Four movement cards and an instruction sheet laying on a blonde wood desk. Pictured on the movement cards are crabs, logs, seals and a young girl doing fitness activities.

Two printable rhythm worksheets on a wooden table with crayons and scissors. Three pictures are already cut out and scattered across the table ready to be placed on the worksheet.

Two printable yoga worksheets on a wooden table with crayons and scissors. 1 worksheet has 9 boxes of colorable yoga poses. The other worksheet is a direction page with 4 sequenced boxes for students to place their cut-out pictures on.

Several worksheets piled on top of a blonde wood table. Also spread across the table are colored pencils. The worksheet pages are coloring pages with word finds, mazes and vocabulary site word pictures.

Several worksheets piled on top of a blonde wood table. The worksheets displayed are; mazes, coloring sheets and two types of word puzzles that use B.A.S.T.E. vocabulary. Also spread across the table are a variety of colored pencils.

A grey BINGO card, colorful marker circles, and an action card (that pictures a dancer bent forward) on a light wood table.

Many children in a white gymnasium throwing transparent blue, green, and yellow square scarves in the air and catching them.

Printable word cards on a light wood table. The cards picture action words like soar, jump and kick. Also pictured is a black and white document detailing the rules for the game and a cartoon image of a boy running.

Lessons

Lesson Plans

An aerial view of light wooden desk that has four sheets of paper with text and pictures. The pictures include: a photo of Duncan dancing, a story with a forest border, and three vector images of a rainbow, rain cloud, and white daisies.

Scattered across a wooden table are 3 white papers with text from a lesson plan on Greek dance. A vector image of a blue and white Greek flag is displayed within a pink outlined heart.

An aerial view of light wooden desk that has three sheets of paper and two red dice. The papers have black and white text for a dance activity that explores the choreographic device of chance.

An aerial view of light wooden desk that has three multi-colored vocabulary posters, a lesson plan guide and a black and white choreographer poster of Donald McKayle.

Lesson plan worksheets on a light wooden desk. Worksheets include pictures of a modern dancer, rubric, poem and vocabulary poster.

A yellow background with a happy grey cartoon chicken holding the American symbol of thumbs up.

A masculine left hand holding up a smartphone to take a picture of an Italian piazza.

This is a picture of three Bhangra dancers in bright colored vardiyaan outfits. The are dancing in front of an Indian city skyline on a tan colored background.

A silhouette of three people standing in a dark field waving their hands in the air with a bright orange sunset behind them.

Two African women dancing with their arms wide and looking over their right shoulder. The dancers are dressed in Black costumes that have floral designs made out of shells.

Units

Units

Scattered across a wooden table are: rubrics, worksheets and vocabulary posters in a pastel color pallet. A white cloud bubble indicates this educational dance unit is geared for students ages 6-12 grade.

High school students outside enjoying an amber sunset. Advertisement on back to school ice breaker activities for a dance classroom of middle or high school students.

This is a picture of a young girl dancing outside in a park. Her arms are above her head and her long curly hair and sparkly costume are blowing in the wind. This post announces the release of a new ballet unit for children ages 5-8.

An action shot of friends, families, and neighbors dancing Bachata to live music on the street in summer time.

A masculine left hand holding up a smartphone to take a picture of an Italian piazza.

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