LESSON PLAN

Class: Grade 1
Date: Week 9
Time: 12-12.30
Period/Lesson: Arts
Topic: Dance
Length: 30 mins
Student background knowledge and learner considerations:
- Previous knowledge of lesson that introduced the concept of dance
ACARA Outcome/s:
Explore, improvise and organise ideas to make dance sequences using the elements of
dance (ACADAM001)
Use fundamental movement skills to develop technical skills when practising dance
sequences (ACADAM002)
Present dance that communicate ideas to an audience, including dance used by cultural groups in the
community (ACADAM003)
Lesson Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
- build on awareness and identify actions and space
explore a variety of directions, levels, sizes, and
shapes in personal and general space
respond to stimuli such as stories, poems, music,
or objects as starting points for own dance
explorations
begin to seek a variety of solutions in movement
explorations (improvisation)
Assessment of the outcomes:
- Observe students understanding of locomoter and non-locomotor movements
- Assess childrens movement capabilities
- Observe childrens discussions
Productive Pedagogies: (How will productive pedagogies be applied to / realised in the learning?)
Teacher-guided learning along with student generated.
Safety and Risk assessment: (prac lessons)
Ensure classroom is set up to allow proper movement
Ensure children have enough room
ORIENTATING PHASE / INTRODUCTORY PHASE:
Time: Teacher direction/
Student activity / what
activity / instruction:
students are doing:

12pm

Warm Up
Guide students in their
warm-up by having them
explore different ways of
moving and then stopping
in a shape formed by their
bodies on a signal from the
teacher. For example,
students slide, twirl, stop,
and sink into a low position
and then extend into a final
shape. In another
example, students could
gallop throughout the
space, turn, fall, and roll
into a final shape.

Students are using their

body to create different
ways of moving through
dance

Check for
understanding / key
questions / manage
the learning:

Resources:

Asses understanding
through capability to
follow simon says
instructions

ENHANCING PHASE / BODY OF LESSON:

Time: Teacher direction/ activity /
instruction:

Student
activity / what
students are
doing:

Check for
understanding / key
questions / manage
the learning:

Students are
listening to the
music and
choosing
movements
that match the
song

Manage learning by
questioning and
assessing childrens
responses

Student
activity / what
students are
doing:

Check for
understanding / key
questions / manage
the learning:

Play Get funky to students.

12.10
pm

Discuss how the music makes students

feel and have them brainstorm all of the
various movements the music suggests
(e.g., stomping, sway, clapping, happy).
Record the words that will help develop
students vocabulary. Explore some of
the students ideas. The purpose of this
step is to familiarize students with a
variety of possible movements.

Resources:

Music CD or
Youtube
https://www.
youtube.co
m/watch?
v=FGrnC1K
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Play the music to the students again.

Have students select from their ideas,
four or five movements that best suit
the music. Play the music several times
as students make their selections. Ask
students to sequence their movements
in any order students wish, repeating
movements as needed. Encourage
students to create sequences that
include actions that travel (locomotor)
and move on the spot (non-locomotor).

SYNTHESISING PHASE / CONSOLIDATION:

Time: Teacher direction/ activity /
instruction:

Resources:

12.35

In small groups, have students show

their work.
Can they identify why other students
chose
different movements? Discuss.

Finish / summing up / link to the next lesson:

Link to Literacy by asking the children to draw a series of movements of a person dancing in their book. What
movements do they carry out when dancing? Add sentences and use describing words to describe what is
happening in the pictures.
Homework:
Ask the students to think about what kind of music they like to listen to. What aspects of the music make it
interesting? Able to dance to?