Lesson Plan Dance
Topic and Focus :The Arts - Dance
Year Level: grade 1
Duration: 1.5 hours
AusVELS Strands Level: level One
Domain: The Arts
Dimension: Creating and Making
Learning Focus: To understand the difference between locomotive and non locomotive movements.
Key Elements of standards to which lesson focussed:
- selection of movements and/or actions to enhance expressive qualities of own dance, drama or music works.
- use of arts language in discussion about why they and others have chosen to arrange aspects of arts works in particular ways
Student background knowledge:
Students have been learning about how to move their bodies into different shapes and sizes. The focus has been on the movement of their bodies. They are aware how their own bodies moves and bends into different shapes.
Resources and materials required:
You tube : Interactive white board
Paper gray lead pencils
Lesson Format
INTRODUCTION:
Play a warm up game foxes and rabbits. The children are rabbits and there is a fox chasing them, to be safe from the fox they must be in a burrow. A burrow is a pair of rabbits, once there is three the rabbit on the end must leave and is fair game for the fox, until the rabbit makes it to the next burrow. This is just a fun energetic game to warm the students up. The game will warm up the student’s body, minds emotions and social awareness.
Introducing the theme:
Put a range of music tracks and get the students to dance the way the music makes them feel, the first two songs the students can do whatever they like, the third song they must stay stationary and only use hands and legs, the fourth song the students are able to move around again. Then explain that when we dance and move around the room for the three songs that is what we call locomotive movement and when we sat on the floor and only used out hands and feet that was called non locomotive movement.
BODY of LESSON
Show students video clips on locomotive and non locomotive movements
Video clips:
Discuss what the students saw in the video clips.
Get students to sit in a circle, ask students to create a new name for themselves this will be there “beat name”. To create the beat name by taking the first three letters of their name and the first three letters of their last name as they are in grade 1 they will need to write this down, have paper and gray leads available for the students in the circle.
Once every student has their beat name, go around the circle to hear all the new beat names.
Then using only hands, clapping , slapping , tapping etc begin creating a beat in a follow the leader type style, once the students have grasped that beat divide the circle in half and get the one half doing a different beat and using different movements. When the group has a nice groove going ask three students to incorporate their beat name like lyrics to a song.
Divide the students into groups of four to complete the following task
In groups of four students must create a locomotive and non locomotive dance / song to perform in front of class. The students can only ever have 2 students doing locomotive moments at one time, the other students can be doing non locomotive moments, all students must participate in performance and students must include all 4 students beat names at some time in the routine.
Give students time to complete task, roam around room making sure students are on task, all criteria are in performance and everyone is participating.
Students then perform routines to classmates – classmates giving constructive feedback and always encouraging advice.
CONCLUSION:
Recap the main focus of lesson: Locomotive and non locomotive movements
End with questioning – what type or movement do you prefer and why?
References
Deakin University, 2013, Teaching the Arts in Primary Schools: Dance and Drama Workshops, Deakin University, Geelong.
State Government of Victoria 2013, AusVELS, State Government of Victoria, retrieved 3 June 2013, < http://ausvels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/>.
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWWZwxZ49pk
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