Dynamics: Explorers Examples

• Most of the explorers came by sea.

Teachers can explore the dynamic of being at sea versus being on land. They can explore how grateful the explorers must have been to be on land at the end of their journey.

 

• These explorers traded in ports along their journey and may have bartered with natives as well.

  Teachers can explore how a dancer has to adjust while working with props during a performance.

  5.2.4 Demonstrate principles of opposing weight and force/energy, balance and counterbalance, or cantilever.

 

• Dance was performed at entertainment both on the journey and once they reached their destination.

4.3.3 Perform and describe dances that reflect the geographical place in which the dances are performed (e.g., deserts, rain forests, islands).

5.3.3 Select traditional dances that men, women, or children perform and explain the purpose(s) of the dances.

6.3.3 Explain the various ways people have experienced dance in their daily lives (e.g., Roman entertainments, Asian religious ceremonies, baby naming in Ghana, Latin American celebrations).

 

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