It includes suggested activities and concepts for each track. It incorporates a practical approach to classroom management, use of facilities, and grouping according to physical development. Teacher's guide, video, and audio cassette with music encourage exploration of elements of creative dance. The teacher's guide is organized into laminated key shapes which describe dance movements, exercises, and evaluation. Vocabulary cards provide ideas for dance composition.
Video demonstrates ideas presented on cards.
Louis XIV, Japan, Indonesia, Ghana, Asante Court, Bugaku, Kumase, Java, Jogiakarta. The video also addresses dance history and the cultural origins of dance. The components comprehensively relate dance to child and adolescent development. Topics of dance making, dance sharing, dance inquiry, and dance movement vocabulary are central. Ideas and activities to implement the main topics are organized sequentially.