Natural disasters are generally best avoided but, from the safety of our dance space, let’s look at weather and volcanoes to discover a world of varied, dynamic movement.
Your ”Natural Disasters” Teaching Pack for Key Stage 2 Dance
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- 6-week lesson plan
- integrated music tracks
- pupil assessment charts
- curriculum objectives
- learning outcomes
- comprehensive teaching notes
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Outline
Natural disasters are generally best avoided but, from the safety of our dance space, let’s look at weather and volcanoes, to discover a world of varied, dynamic movement.
Curriculum Objectives:
- Apply & develop a broad range of movement skills
- Learn how to use these in different ways
- Link them to make actions & sequences of movement
- Enjoy communicating and collaborating with each other
- Develop an understanding of how to improve
- Learn how to evaluate and recognise own success
Learning Outcomes:
- Use a variety of movements in isolation and combination
- Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance
- Perform dances using a range of movement patterns
- Compare and evaluate performances against previous ones
- Demonstrate improvement to achieve personal targets
Unit Contents:
Week 4: Volcano Whole-Class Dance
Week 1: Destruction of the Rainforest
Starter
What different types of weather are there? Let’s make a list. e.g. tornado, rain, wind, snow, cyclone, typhoon, hurricane, blizzard.
Perhaps use videos to demonstrate the effects of the different weather types.
Warm up
Triumph Over Evil
Move around the space using different ways of travelling and different pathways. When the music stops and the teacher calls out a weather type, freeze in a shape that represents that weather.
Encourage creativity, e.g. can they be a raindrop?
Main
Every Now and Then
- Improvise how you might move to represent these different weather types:
- Rain (e.g. using arms and hands a lot to show rain falling)
- Wind (e.g. using the whole body with different levels)
- Tornado (e.g. like the wind, but lots of twisting and turning)
- Hurricane, typhoon or cyclone* (e.g. could combine the wind and rain movements; possibly tornado too)
*Explain that these are all the same thing, just in different parts of the world.
- Choose three different weather types to represent in dance. Try to pick the best dynamics (how you dance) so it is clear which types you are representing. Can you show the change from one to another? Remember to include a start and end position.
- Find a partner and show your dance to each other. Can you identify the weather types your partner is representing?
- Which dynamics did you see being used to demonstrate the different weather types. What worked well?
Cool Down
Billy’s Day Out
Start off down low, as though you are a leaf on the floor. Slowly start to move, imagining the leaf is being blown gently by the wind.
Key Vocabulary:
dynamics, improvise, stillness, levels, travel
Week 2: Tornadoes
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