Domains at powell.Domains offer daily, expanded opportunities to explore, create, and collaborate within broadly-themed, interdisciplinary, team-taught, flexible learning environments. Students are given opportunities to create meaning through play, to communicate, and to take learning risks. Within Domains students experience 21st Century Learning Skills (Creativity, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, and Communication), which are embedded in the curriculum.
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K-2 Domain dance opportunities
Students in grades K-2 have the opportunity to come to the dance room when their Domain teacher signs them up for whole-class, or half-class experiences with me, in which I create lessons that relate to and help reinforce what they are learning in their curriculum. For example, if they are learning about the life cycle of a butterfly in Nature Play, they could come to me to bring that to life through movement. These experiences help the students process and connect to their learning material in a kinesthetic, playful way.
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K-2 Domain Video examples
In the video above, students from the K-2 "Nature Play Domain" are showing off a creative exploration we did while learning about the life cycle of a butterfly! We read the story "Charlie the Caterpillar" and used props to enhance our storytelling through movement!
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In the video above students from the K-2 "Bodies in Motion" domain are performing their song entitled "Alive With Five ", which they learned words and motions for to help reinforce their learning about the importance of nutrition and what they eat on "my plate." This was such a fun learning experience for these students. Not only did they experience music and dance within this lesson, but they also experienced art as they designed and made their own costumes!
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In the video above students from the K-2 "Design Your Own" domain are exploring states of matter in the dance room with. In this dance lesson students are specifically exploring liquids and solids, and how heat can turn solid matter into liquid, and how extreme cool can turn liquid to solid. Students collaborated and used props to bring changes of matter to life through movement, and had so much fun learning through play!
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3-5 Domain dance opportunities
Students in grades 3-5 have more autonomy in choosing which arts area they want to use to explore their Domain curriculum with. Students learn material in the classroom, and are allowed to use a "Travel Ticket" when they are ready to create a project to show what they've learned. For example, after learning about the respiratory and circulatory systems in Bodies in Motion, students fill out a travel ticket to come to my room the next day. They come to me and we use their learning facts to plan out what order their dance will be in. They take their facts and turn them into movement, creating a dance with a beginning, middle, and end. It's a very creative and collaborative process, where students use critical-thinking to solve problems. The end result is students using dance to communicate what they have learned.
3-5 Domain video Example |
In the video to the left two fourth grade students, Nige and Zamir, from the 3-5 America the Beautiful domain are performing the hip-hop dance they choreographed, based off of facts about John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. Their facts included how rocks were formed over time, tourism/photography, rafting, hiking, fishing, animals including lizards, hawks, and coyotes, plant life (cactus/flower), juniper trees, and wildfire. The boys collaborated to create movement to bring these facts to life through dance. |