Lesson Plan

Australian Curriculum Learning Area: Arts

Year level: Grade 1
Lesson Title: Dance
Learning Outcomes:
The learning outcomes of this lesson are:
- For students to develop and apply creative and critical thinking to a dance activity
- For students to communicate ideas, share their innovative movements and express their
imaginations and feelings
Success Criteria:
Were students actively engaged in the warm-up activity? Did students engage in conversation
and freely express ideas during the main activity? Did all groups complete their dance and
expression activity in the allotted time?
Curriculum Content:
Arts Curriculum

creativity, critical thinking, aesthetic knowledge and understanding about arts practices,
through making and responding to artworks with increasing self-confidence

Teaching and Learning Sequence:

Resources:

1. Introduce the lesson by explaining that todays Bluetooth speakers and ageactivities will be based around Dance and appropriate music.
movement.
2. Ask students to sit in a circle and explain the
Dance Circle activity:
-The Dance Circle is where all students in the
circle have to imitate the leaders dance moves
which must be completed in a beat of 8 counts.
The leader will change after each 8 counts to
the next person in the circle until the circle is
complete.
3. Once the warm up activity is complete,
organise students into the circle to conduct the
game.
4. Explain the game Mimicking Musical Statues:
-Mimicking Musical Statues is where students
have to dance or move in particular ways until
the music stops and they must freeze. The
movements that the students will be doing are:
elephants, frog, water, fairies, spaghetti, tired
puppy, big giant, fly, the Principal and lightning.

5. Organise the students into their groups to

explain the main activity.
6. Explain the main activity Emotion Movement:
-Emotion Movement is where students, in
groups of up to 5, are allowed to choose one
emotion (e.g Sad, Happy, Scared, Angry). They
have to choose 4-5 dance movements that will
express this emotion and then present it to the
class. The class then has to guess which
emotion the group was dancing with.
7. Allow time for students to present and give
appropriate and positive feedback.
8. An extension activity is to have a Tempo
Awareness game where they are allowed to
freestyle dance to changing tempos.
9. Once the activities are completed, thank the
students for their time and transition them to
the next class.
Notes on Lesson: