Use inquiry in dance to express ideas about topics of importance to youth.

• Generate key questions to guide inquiry in dance (e.g., Why does the media often portray youth in a negative light? How could dance help to raise awareness or bring about change on a topic of concern? In what ways could we represent through dance the positive contributions of today's youth to life in Saskatchewan?).
• Determine depth and breadth of personal knowledge to identify possible areas of inquiry.
• Generate additional relevant questions for exploration.
• Use the Internet and other sources (e.g., print, digital, community) to gather ideas for dance making.
• Use the dance-making process to explore the central inquiry questions and ideas (e.g., How can we show through movement the determination that youth must possess to improve the future?).
• 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 can we represent through movement the differing perspectives on this topic?).

Reflect on how movement, dance elements, and principles of composition can be organized to convey meaning in dance (e.g., What message or main idea does our dance communicate about our topic of concern?).

Document the inquiry and creative process (e.g., journal entries, video, photography, blog, or digital diary).

Collaborate on a youth-driven and teacher/community-supported plan to raise awareness through the arts about a topic of concern to youth:

• Propose ways of including community members and artists who share the same concerns, and develop a collaborative action plan to share some parts of entire dances with others.