Discovering Dance opens up a world of opportunities for high school students who have little or no dance experience. The text, available in print and electronic forms, helps students understand the fundamentals of creating, performing, analyzing, understanding, responding to, connecting with, and evaluating dance in its various genres. It meets national and state dance education standards and addresses 21st-century learning goals. As such, it offers a complete introductory dance curriculum with the flexibility of being used for one or more years of instruction.Discovering Dance is the ideal text to use in introducing the fundamentals of dance to students with little or no dance experience. Through this text, students can do the following: Meet national and state standards in dance education and learn from a pedagogically sound scope and sequence that allow them to address 21st-century learning goals.Discover dance through creating, performing, analyzing, understanding, responding to, connecting with, and evaluating dance and dance genres.Experience dance as performers, choreographers, and audience members as they learn about dance through societal, cultural, historical, art, and entertainment contexts.Step into a flexible dance curriculum that is appropriate for one or more years of instruction.Build on their dance experience, whether they want to further explore dance or choreography or otherwise factor dance into college or career goalsUse student web resources to enhance their learning.Discover that dance provides fun ways of staying fit and being socially active.Acquire knowledge through the technology-infused student learning activities in the chapters.Enhance learning by completing chapter portfolio assignments over the term.