Rhythmic Activities and Dance - 2nd Edition

Teach children easy rhythms and dances for fitness and fun!

A collection of some of the most popular recreational dances, aimed at primary and secondary school teachers who want to teach easy rhythms and dances for fun and fitness.

This book includes:

• instructions for using cognitive, affective and psychomotor objectives to assist in developing appropriate units for your students
• an easy-to-use rhythmic activity finder to help you find dances and activities
• a focus on social development, including suggestions for setting up a non-threatening environment and including students of all abilities
• assessment sections providing tips for getting students to create their own dances and a rubric to assess them.

• Rhythmic Activity Finder
• CD Song List
• Key to Diagrams
• Preface
• Acknowledgments

• Chapter 1. Starting a Rhythmic Activities and Dance Program
• Chapter 2. Icebreaker Activities
• Chapter 3. Rhythmic Games and Activities
• Chapter 4. Aerobic Dance and Fitness Routines
• Chapter 5. Line Dances
• Chapter 6. Folk Dances
• Chapter 7. Mixers
• Chapter 8. Square Dances and Clogging
• Chapter 9. Social Dances

• Glossary
• Suggested Resources
• About the Authors

John Price Bennett, EdD, has been teaching dance to people of all ages, from pre-school to older adults, since 1969. He is a professor in the health and applied human sciences department at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he has taught dance since 1992. His primary teaching areas in dance are children's creative dance, folk, square, ballroom and Latin dance.

Pamela Coughenour Riemer, MA, has been teaching physical education since 1969 and has had recreational dance as a major component of her curriculum.