Year 1 - Physical education
Dance: can you move throughout the jungle and discover different animals?
Remote learning: an introduction to dance
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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 explore the jungle using a range of actions to demonstrate how you feel.
Key Notes
- Move: portraying our emotions as we create actions with expression requires clarity and control.
- Think: trying a range of ideas before selecting our preferred option requires decision making.
- Feel: taking care to portray our emotions accurately requires integrity.
- Connect: fairness requires us to maintain our personal working space.
Vocabulary To Learn
- expression: the way a person shows their thoughts, feelings or ideas through actions, words or movements
- emotion: a feeling you experience - these can be positive or negative
- travel: to move from one location to another
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Everyone will always move the same way through a jungle.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: portraying our emotions as we create actions with expression requires clarity and control. Think: trying a range of ideas before selecting our preferred option requires decision making.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'expression'
the way a person shows their thoughts, feelings or ideas through actions, words or movements.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Everyone will always move the same way through a jungle. Correction: Different people might feel different emotions when walking through a jungle.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Dance: can you create a range of different movements to represent superheroes? Study Guide
- Dance: can you create a range of movements to represent different animals? Study Guide
- Dance: can you create actions to tell the story of a real life hero? Study Guide
- Dance: can you create actions to tell the story of a visit to the zoo? Study Guide
- Dance: can you create movements as you explore space? Study Guide
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