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Member Resources
- Physical Education and Intramurals Clipboard –
Teaching Dance issue
The Clipboard is PHE Canada’s popular teaching tips publication
that provides ready to implement lesson plans and activity ideas.
The Teaching Dance issue of The Clipboard (Vol. 6, No. 2) provides
activity ideas, tips and other resources for teachers.
The Clipboard is available to members via the Member’s
Only Portal.
Excelway.ca -- PHE Canada’s Online Bookstore
The PHE Canada Bookstore offers a growing number of Intramural materials
and resources. The following publications are available for purchase
through www.excelway.ca.
- Building More Dances- Blueprints for Putting Movements Together
Building More Dances puts the teacher in the role of facilitator. It covers all the fundamentals so that even teachers with little or no dance background will feel comfortable teaching students how to build dances.
- Creative Dance
This manual has been written to aid both the physical education specialist and the generalist classroom teacher in teaching creative dance.
- Teaching Children Dance - Second Edition
Contains a practical framework and approach for presenting creative dance lessons to children in kindergarten to fifth grade. It combines essential dance content appropriate for an elementary-level program with detailed descriptions of strategies. Featuring 20 dance learning experiences, the book has been updated and expanded to reflect educators’ renewed commitment to making dance an integral part of children’s education.
- Dance Education Tips from the Trenches
This is a light-hearted collection of 83 essays that present
real-life stories, quips, and survival tips for teaching creative
dance in public school settings.
- Dances Even I Would do!
Dances Even I Would Do! contains more than 50 dances divided
into Folk Dances, Mixers, Novelty Dances, Singing Games, and
dances for a variety of Special Occasions.
- Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design
This book presents a conceptual model of dance education that
embraces dance as an art form and disseminates it through learning
experiences in dancing, dance making, and dance appreciation.
- Multicultural Folk Dance Treasure Chest
This resource features 18 authentic ethnic dances in two volumes,
each containing a video, a printed guide, and music.
- Perpetual Motion
This resource introduces more than 100 movement exercises organized
around six themes: rules, recipes, props, poetry and prose,
objects and images, and integrated arts.
- Rhythmic Activities and Dance
With more than 192 activities to choose from, more than 95 illustrations
to aid in teaching basic steps, and a user-friendly format,
Rhythmic Activities and Dance gives the flexibility to introduce
dance at a level appropriate to the individual skill levels
of students.
- Step Lively
This resource features a lively collection of 13 tunes and 20
time-tested dances from traditions such as folk dancing, square
dancing, contra dancing, and singing games.
Links
- Dance Is... a short PHE Canada presentation on why dance should be a part of any quality physical education program.
- www.soundtracksound.com — recommends a selection of over 400 tracks of original music composed "for use in all types of creative projects, performance forms, and classroom activities." These CD's are theme based, instramental, and suitable for use with all grades.
- The Creative Dance Centre — "a non-profit organization which provides quality, brain-compatible dance education for people of all ages." There web site includes free resources as well as an online store.
- www.dancetv.com — If you have always wanted to learn how to ballroom dance but never knew where to start, this is the right place for you. You can start learning the Waltz, Fox Trot and Swing by looking at their Learn Online sections, or you can browse through their Dance Tips section. Either way, you will be out on the floor and ballroom dancing in no time!
- Yipee! — a web site with literally hundreds of line dance step sheets and "how to" line dance videos.
- dance and the Child international (daCi)
- International Dance Council (CID - UNESCO)
- National Dance Association (US)
- Community Dance Project (Marian Rose)
- BC Integrated Resource Packages for Dance Curriculum
- ON Dance Curriculum
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