Use inquiry in dance to extend understanding of identity (e.g., examine how pop culture trends influence youth identities):

• Generate key questions to guide inquiry in dance (e.g., How could we represent through dance the unique identities of different peer groups?).
• Summarize and focus knowledge of topic to determine information needs.
• Generate additional relevant questions for deeper exploration.
• Use the Internet and other relevant sources (e.g., print, digital, community) to research and gather ideas for dance-making.
• Use the dance-making process to explore the central questions and ideas (e.g., How could we show through movement that each peer group has a distinct identity? How can we use hip hop or other dance forms to communicate our individual or community identities?).
• Expand on dance and movement ideas in reflective records such as journals, blogs, and video or audio recordings.
• Keep a record of dance phrases using invented and/or traditional notation symbols, and video where possible, to explore, record, and reconstruct movements.
• Reflect, analyze, and make connections between the original topic or inquiry question and subsequent dance explorations.

Investigate how a single idea can be developed in many ways and directions (e.g., How could we represent in movement the idea of an individual feeling isolated or excluded from a peer group?).

Demonstrate self-awareness in decision making about own movement selections.

Reflect on how movement and dance elements can be organized to convey meaning in dance (e.g., What messages or ideas does our movement or dance communicate to an audience about identity?).

Reflect upon choices made during dance-making process.