Teaching and learning sequence: Lessons 7-12
Teaching and learning sequence: Lessons 7-12
Lessons 1–6 | Lessons 7–12
The sequence provides learning activities, plus organisation and teaching points. Lessons 7–12 develop the sports theme, leading to the creation of a dance work.
Duration: 3 weeks – 6 sessions of 30 minutes
Preparation
View video clips of different sports, then brainstorm action words prompted by the sports.
Warm up and individual exploration
- Respond spontaneously to sports action words – such as run, jump, hop, throw, balance, dodge, reach.
- Travel freely in the space. When the music stops, freeze into a sports pose, as given by teacher – such as netball, rugby, golf.
- Improvise a variety of locomotive and/or non-locomotive actions in response to named sports.
- In lines, leader freezes into a sports pose, next person moves to the front of the line and freezes into a contrasting pose at a different level in space. Next person moves to the front of the line to make a different pose, and so on.
- Repeat, with each person travelling to the front of the shape line with actions relating to the sport they have chosen.
Group activities
In groups of four:
- Each person teaches the rest of the group a sports action, then perform them one after the other with smooth transitions. Share with the rest of the class, who guess the sports represented by each group.
- Each group teaches their sports actions to rest of the class.
- As a group, choose one sport and devise four actions to be performed in unison.
- Add changes of:
- level – such as high, middle, low
- direction – such as forwards, backwards, sideways
- formation – such as circle, line.
- Extension activity: introduce canon as a choreographic device.
- Add a beginning and an end to the sports dance to place it within a context – such as a rugby match, a swimming carnival, a tennis tournament.
- Rehearse dances, then share with rest of class, video recording each performance.
- Class gives feedback to each group about to what went well – for example, "I liked it when...".
- View sports dances on video, and complete group self-assessment task.
Assessment
Focus
Group sports dance – process and product.
Strategy
Group self-assessment – each group completes a PMI (Pluses, Minuses, Interesting things) chart on the process of choreographing their sports dance and the end product.