Name: Alayjah Morrison

Course: Classroom Utilization of Computer Technology

Semester: Spring 2015

Internet Searches for ALL ages Dance Education

http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/searchresults.asp?category=56
This website is an ideal website for dance instructors to use. Enclosed are several
activities that are appropriate for each grade level. There are sub-categories of what the
central target lesson for each activity. What is also helpful is that the website provides
footage to demonstrate each lesson. A dance instructor that wants to figure out what
activities are appropriate for different ages would find this website helpful.

http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/arts/dance/
This website can be used by parents, teachers, and students. The purpose of this website
is to provide information about what students will expect in detail. The details that are
shown on this website are very important for students to be prepared for, such as the
following: Research essays, able to work with others, learn who they are as a dancer,
etcThis way the teachers, students, and parents are aware of what is supposed to be
learned.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39905620/Dance%20Lesson
%20Plans/Body%20Lesson%20Plan%20%281st%20-%202nd%29.pdf

This document is a lesson plan geared to 1st and 2nd graders. This website is a lesson plan
that the students must be able to comprehend in regards to dance. The students will learn
locomotor movements and isolations of different body parts. This website is useful for a
dance teacher because it elaborates on the procedures, rules, and provides the learning
objectives.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39905620/Dance%20Lesson
%20Plans/From%20Head%20to%20Toe%20%28K%20-%202%29.pdf
This document is entitled Head to Toe, which is an activity for young dancers to be
aware of their bodies and the space around them. It is very important for dancers to be
aware of what they are doing, as well as others are doing around them. By doing so, it
decreases the chance of any potential accidents to occur. This lesson is focused on a
childrens song called Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes. This website is useful for the
dance teacher because he/or she is made aware if the students do not know their body
parts.
http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?
ID=4509#.VM_6hMZ_R_Z
This document is entitled Dance Team/ Collaborative Fitness Routine. In this lesson,
the students will work together and create a routine demonstrating athletic and musicality
skills. This document is useful because the teacher can observe what the students had
created themselves without his/ or her assistance. This teaches students to work together
with others and not be depend of the instructor for everything. It also informs the students
of the prerequisites.

http://dance.wayne.edu/portfolios06/Parker/Site/Writing_files/Ballet
%20Lesson%20Plan.pdf
This document is a dance lesson plan for adult ballet beginners. This
lesson plan is meant for college students. Ballet is the bases of all
dance styles and it is critical for all dancers to have ballet technique.
This document is important because it lets the teacher and students
know what is required of the students to learn in beginner level ballet.
http://www.pnb.org/Community/Teacher/lesson-8thgrade.pdf
This document is a dance lesson plan for 8th graders. Students must
demonstrate shapes and words into movement, as well as creating
choreography based of a story of poem. This is important because
dancers should be able to create movement to anything, whether there
is music involved or not.
https://sites.google.com/site/ankestamen/advanced-lesson-plan
This document is for advanced belly dancers. Belly dancing is core
work which is important for all dancers to have. This site explains how
to execute each movement. If a teacher wants to add more sexy into
the class, this would be a great website to go to. This lesson plan is for
students 18+ of age.
http://www.ideafit.com/fitness-library/yoga-lesson-plan-1-hip-openingand-patience
This document is for beginners in yoga. Yoga stresses the importance
of balance, flexibility, patience, strength, and breathing. The objective

of this lesson plan is for students to learn to be patient and open their
hips. There is no specific age a student needs to be to attend this
class. This website informs the teacher what he/ or she needs to do to
makes sure the provided poses are well executed by the students.
http://www.pilates-exercise-for-health.com/pilates-beginning-matworkout.html
Pilates is a form of exercise that strengthens the core (center). In order
for students to progress in dance, it is highly important that he/or she
knows how to work from a strong core. This website is very descriptive
in explaining the basic mat workouts. This website is useful for teacher
to train the students in doing a intensive ab workout.