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Year 6 - Physical education

Actions: Newton's Cradle

Dance: the power of unity

Unit Summary

A narrative approach develops a wider range of creative responses to issue based work employing Action-Space-Dynamics-Relationships in a cohesive manner. Pupils express individuality through character-based work, reflecting on social issues. Pupils create dances using binary and ternary forms.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to create and perform actions in response to another person's actions.

Key Notes

  • Move: performing actions in response to another person's actions requires control, balance and accurate timings.
  • Think: exploring different ways of responding to an idea demonstrates problem solving.
  • Feel: making contact with another performer requires all performers to act responsibly.
  • Connect: delivering a high quality dance performance in groups requires collaboration.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • Newton's Cradle: swinging balls that demonstrate Newton's laws of energy conservation and momentum
  • reaction: to respond or answer
  • swing: to move in a curved line

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils think that when replicating Newtons Cradle, when we make contact with others, we have to bump or push them away.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: performing actions in response to another person's actions requires control, balance and accurate timings. Think: exploring different ways of responding to an idea demonstrates problem solving.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'Newton's Cradle'

swinging balls that demonstrate Newton's laws of energy conservation and momentum.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Pupils think that when replicating Newtons Cradle, when we make contact with others, we have to bump or push them away. Correction: The actions don't have to be bumps or pushes when making contact with a partner, but instead could be any action such as a lean, a step, a jump etc.

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