Series

Celebrate the Beat

21 episodes

Celebrate the Beat is the Colorado associate of the National Dance Institute, and its free videos bring that dance-and-movement teaching into any classroom. Teaching artists lead follow-along sessions the whole class can join: brain breaks that explore dance elements like symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes or moving in opposites, full choreography tutorials taught move by move, and cross-curricular dances that carry the nervous system, the alphabet, or the art of Frida Kahlo into the body. A yoga-and-mindfulness strand adds calming breaks, breathing resets, and gratitude practice. Runtimes span quick three-minute resets to twenty-minute sessions, most aimed at grades K through 5. Reach for it when you want the room up and moving with real dance behind the energy.

what this series covers

What Celebrate the Beat covers

21 episodes in the library, tagged for Pre-K–5th. Heaviest coverage: Dance, Brain Breaks and Social-Emotional Learning. Between them they line up with 13 distinct standards across 3 frameworks.

Episodes per grade

Pre-K: 4
K: 8
1st: 8
2nd: 13
3rd: 19
4th: 15
5th: 15

Episodes per subject

Dance: 14
Brain Breaks: 9
Social-Emotional Learning: 7
Art: 1
Reading & Writing (ELA): 1
Music: 1
Physical Education: 1
Science: 1

NGSS (Science) 1

4-LS1-2Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.

National Core Arts 7

DA:Pr5.1.3aReplicate body shapes, movement characteristics, and movement patterns in a dance sequence with awareness of body alignment and core support.
DA:Cr1.1.3aExperiment with a variety of self-identified stimuli (for example, music/sound, text, objects, images, notation, observed dance, experiences) for movement.
DA:Cr1.1.2bCombine a variety of movements while manipulating the elements of dance.
DA:Cr4.1.KaMake still and moving body shapes that show lines (for example, straight, bent, and curved), changes levels, and vary in size (large/small). Join with others to make a circle formation and work with others to change its dimensions.
DA:Pr4.1.2aDemonstrate clear directionality and intent when performing locomotor and non-locomotor movements that change body shapes, facings, and pathways in space. Identify symmetrical and asymmetrical body shapes and examine relationships between body parts. Differentiate between circling and turning as two separate ways of continuous directional change.
MU:Cr1.1.3aImprovise rhythmic and melodic ideas, and describe connection to specific purpose and context.

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VA:Cn11.1.4Through observation, infer information about time, place, and culture in which a work of art was created.

CASEL (Social-Emotional) 5

CASEL.SM.2Use calming and stress-management strategies (deep breaths, a break, asking for space).
CASEL.SA.6Hold a growth mindset: treat effort, practice, and mistakes as how ability grows.
CASEL.SM.1Manage strong emotions and impulses instead of acting on them right away.
CASEL.SM.3Show self-discipline and self-motivation — keep working when a task gets hard or boring.
CASEL.SOA.5Understand and express gratitude.

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