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Unit Summary

This unit will focus on exploring positive and negative emotions and managing them through using mindfulness techniques such as visualisation, meditative balances, mime and deep breathing. Pupils will understand why these techniques are important for a healthy mind to support our overall wellbeing.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to interpret music to create movement that helps you to express myself.

Key Notes

• Move: to express the emotion that music makes us feel, we move at different speeds and levels, using facial expressions.
• Think: using drawings to explain how music makes us feel can help us discuss our feelings and emotions.
• Think: reflecting on how music makes us feel helps us explain the contrast we feel between different pieces of music.
• Feel: self-motivation allows us to focus on our movements and helps us to try and express emotions.
• Connect: we have to trust and respect our partners when we discuss our feelings and emotions.

Vocabulary To Learn

• movement: the act of changing position or location
• emotions: feelings that we have in response to a situation, event or thought, which influence our mood or behaviour
• feelings: the ways we experience and understand our emotions inside our hearts and minds.

Common Mistakes To Avoid

• Pupils focus on the tempo of the music, matching the beat and tempo, instead of considering the full effect of the music in creating an emotional response. (e.g., pupils run to fast music.)

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

More Lessons In This Unit

• Combine and perform mime with meditative balances Study Guide
• Create movement sequences to express emotions Study Guide
• Performing meditative balances incorporating mindfulness techniques Study Guide
• Use mime to explore positive and negative emotions Study Guide
• Use mindfulness techniques to help manage emotions Study Guide