Year 1 - Physical education
Dance: can you create a range of movements to represent different animals?
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Unit Summary
The unit of work will challenge pupils to respond to the changing stimuli using a range of different and controlled actions, showing character, expression, control and accuracy. Pupils will learn how to co-ordinate their bodies to create short sequences.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to create a range of actions that are uniquely different to represent different characters.
Key Notes
- Move: representing animal characters requires creating big, clear actions performed with control.
- Think: ensuring that there is a unique difference between the different animal characters created requires imagination.
- Feel: trying hard to ensure our dance ideas are of the highest quality requires self-belief.
- Connect: watching others' ideas and suggesting ways they could improve requires focus and empathy.
Vocabulary To Learn
- unique: being one of a kind or unlike anything else
- character: the set of qualities, traits and values that define an animal's behaviour and personality
- create: to make or produce something new using imagination, skill or effort
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- You may think that all animals move in the same way or have the same personality.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: representing animal characters requires creating big, clear actions performed with control. Think: ensuring that there is a unique difference between the different animal characters created requires imagination.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'unique'
being one of a kind or unlike anything else.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: You may think that all animals move in the same way or have the same personality. Correction: Animals move differently and show different characteristics. For example, a lion is strong and proud, while a butterfly is gentle and light. Their movements should look and feel different when we dance.
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