Dance

1. Dance is a type of art that generally involves movement of the body, often rhythmic and to music. It is performed in many cultures as a form of emotional expression, social interaction, or exercise, in a spiritual or performance setting, and is sometimes used to express ideas or tell a story.
2. Dance may also be regarded as a form of nonverbal communication between humans or other animals, as in bee dances and behaviour patterns such as a mating dances.
3. Types:     

tango

ballroom

ballet

breakdancing

street dance

jig

waltz

disco

salsa

electronica

hip hop

Theather

1. Theatre or theater^[1] is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place.
2. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance.
3. Types of Theatre:

• Drama
• musical
• comedy
• tragedy
• improvisation

Poor Pluto

"Pluto is dead," said Caltech researcher Mike Brown, who spoke with reporters via a teleconference while monitoring the vote. The decision also means a Pluto-sized object that Brown discovered will not be called a planet.

"Pluto is not a planet," Brown said. "There are finally, officially, eight planets in the solar system."

The vote involved just 424 astronomers who remained for the last day of a meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague.

"I'm embarassed for astornomy," said Alan Stern, leader of NASA's New Horizon's mission to Pluto and a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute. "Less than 5 percent of the world's astronomers voted."

"This definition stinks, for technical reasons," Stern told SPACE.com. He expects the astronomy community to overturn the decision. Other astronomers criticized the definition as ambiguous.

The resolution

The decision establishes three main categories of objects in our solar system.

• Planets: The eight worlds from Mercury to Neptune.
• Dwarf Planets: Pluto and any other round object that "has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, and is not a satellite."
• Small Solar System Bodies: All other objects orbiting the Sun.

Pluto and its moon Charon, which would both have been planets under the initial definition proposed Aug. 16, now get demoted because they are part of a sea of other objects that occupy the same region of space. Earth and the other eight large planets have, on the other hand, cleared broad swaths of space of any other large objects.

"Pluto is a dwarf planet by the ... definition and is recognized as the prototype of a new category of trans-Neptunian objects," states the approved resolution.

Dwarf planets are not planets under the definition, however.

"There will be hundreds of dwarf planets," Brown predicted. He has already found dozens that fit the category.

The Sun

The sun, which sits in the center of our solar system, is a medium-size star. As we all know, the sun provides us with light and warmth; however, as the largest body in our solar system, the sun plays an additional important role. With a diameter of 864,949 miles (1,392,000 kilometers), the sun is more than one million times larger than Earth. Because it is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system, too, the sun exerts a greater gravitational pull. It is this pull that keeps all the planets, including Earth, fixed on their orbital paths. Without this pull, the planets would simply float off into space.

Watch this video:

http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/what-is-sun

The Solar System Song

The solar System song:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ-qLUIj_A0

Unit 3 How we express ourselves

Transdisciplinary theme:  How we express ourselves:

 An inquiry into the ways in which we discover and express ideas, feelings, nature, culture, beliefs and values; the ways in which we reflect on, extend and enjoy our creativity; our appreciation of the aesthetic.

Central idea

• Our need to share our feelings and ideas drives us to develop effective ways to communicate.

Key concepts: 

• Perspective: What are the major points of view?
• Function:  How does it work?

Inquiry lines:

• La expresion corporal en sus diversas representaciones artísticas.
• Theatre and Dancing as a part of scenic arts.
• Las formas de expresión según el estado de animo.
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