Year 4 - Physical education
Use mime to explore positive and negative emotions
Health and wellbeing: mindfulness, meditative balances and relaxation techniques
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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 explore how to manage positive and negative emotions using mime.
Key Notes
- Move: using deep breathing techniques when experiencing negative emotions supports relaxation.
- Move: we can use gestures, expressions and movement to show positive and negative emotions.
- Think: re-focusing our minds to consider the positive things in our lives can help us manage our emotions.
- Feel: staying focused when applying relaxation techniques to control and explore emotions shows self-motivation.
- Connect: evaluating the performances of others and communicating ways to improve helps everyone to develop.
Vocabulary To Learn
- mime: acting without words, using only gesture, expression and movement
- positive emotions: feelings that promote well-being, happiness and a sense of fulfilment
- negative emotions: feelings that can cause discomfort, stress or unhappiness
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think that mime only refers to illustrating physical objects, e.g. a plate or a glass of water etc., and don't consider how mime can represent emotional responses too.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: using deep breathing techniques when experiencing negative emotions supports relaxation. Move: we can use gestures, expressions and movement to show positive and negative emotions.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'mime'
acting without words, using only gesture, expression and movement.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think that mime only refers to illustrating physical objects, e.g. a plate or a glass of water etc., and don't consider how mime can represent emotional responses too. Correction: Explain to pupils that mime is a powerful tool we can use to help us to understand and manage our emotions.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Combine and perform mime with meditative balances Study Guide
- Create movement sequences to express emotions Study Guide
- Interpret music to create expressive movement Study Guide
- Performing meditative balances incorporating mindfulness techniques Study Guide
- Use mindfulness techniques to help manage emotions Study Guide
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