Year 3 - Physical education
Dance: can you create a sequence of actions and mirror a partner?
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Unit Summary
This unit will teach pupils the importance of timing, creating and performing actions to a beat. Pupils will learn how to use key compositional ideas such as canon, unison and mirroring in their sequence creation.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to perform a sequence of dance actions while mirroring a partner.
Key Notes
- Move: mirroring a partner's actions while performing a sequence requires accurate timing.
- Think: keeping accurate timing while performing with a partner requires concentration.
- Feel: striving to ensure all your actions are performed in time with a partner requires self-discipline.
- Connect: mirroring the person on the screen helps me connect my actions with theirs and perform the sequence accurately.
Vocabulary To Learn
- mirror: reflecting an action
- sequence: a series of movements or actions performed in a specific order
- timing: performing movements in sync with the rhythm, beat or music at the correct speed and moment
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think they should copy the actions on the same side as the leader.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: mirroring a partner's actions while performing a sequence requires accurate timing. Think: keeping accurate timing while performing with a partner requires concentration.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'mirror'
reflecting an action.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think they should copy the actions on the same side as the leader. Correction: Pupils need to perfom the actions on the opposite side to the leader as if they are performing in a mirror.
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