The Four Elements of Dance


The Warm Up



Question 1

What is important about this warm up?
 
Question 2
 
What would you change about this warmup if these were your students? Why?
 
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The Class



Question 3
 
How effective is this teacher in explaining the four elements of movement? Explain. 

Question 4

What would you change if this was your class? Why?

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ACTIVITY

Students are divided into groups and each group plans to teach a different aspect of a dance/movement class. 
 
Because of lack of space in our classroom, they go out on the hallway and create stations on which to teach their content. 
 
The activity is fun, exciting, fast and playful. It is a perfect exercise before starting teaching the mini-lessons.
 
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For students who need to make up:

Question 3
 
Develop a lesson plan based on the activity shown in the video above. Remember that the lesson in the video mixes action words (Language Arts) with elements of movement (Dance/PE). 

Also, remember that the lesson shown above is taught to 5th graders.

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Please, use the link below for guidance on how to choose subject, component, objective, competency.

Competency Based Curriculum
 
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STUDENT'S WORK
 
Lesson Plan
 Haley Grey

Warm-up:

- Every student born in the current leads a stretching warm-up. The warm-up will consist of passive and dynamic stretches.

Conversation:

- What types of dances there are? 

- What's everyone's favorite dance move?

- What kinds of movement are there?

  • jumping, turning, spinning, stretching, shimmying, skipping

Lesson:

With different paced songs the teacher will call our action words for the students to interpret and dance to. Halfway through students will pair up and play the mirror game.

Cool Down

- meditative, personal reflection style cool down

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