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Date: 18

th
of August

Subject: Dance
Year Level: 3

Lesson Focus: Movement, Dance
Duration: 1 hour

Teaching Strategies:

Essential Learnings (ACARA) Think: What section of the curriculum does this lesson fit into?





Rationale (Goal) Think: Why are you teaching this? How does this help me guide the students to essential learnings?
To teach the students (verbs)

Hot to identify dance movements re-enacting an animal
How to move their bodies to portray an animal using dance movements

Cross Curricular Think: What other learning does this relate to? How can I link ideas?
I can integrate the following understandings





Objectives of the lesson Think: What opportunities will I create for the learners?
That the children will be able to

o Identify dance movements re-enacting an animal
o Move their bodies to portray an animal using dance movements

Key Vocabulary
I will use the following words

Dance
Aboriginal
Stories
Animals
Body
Movements
Safe
Slow
Fast
Bird
Crane





Learning Sequence
Introduction Think: What are the new ideas? What ideas am I making links with or revisiting?

Explore some different cultural videos from both the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Talk about the different cultural costumes that are worn in the videos

Core instruction (Questions Blooms Taxonomy) Think: What learning activities and resources will I use?
Ask some of the students to point out or show some of the movements that were used in the video from
either the Aboriginals or the Torres Strait Islanders
Get the students to discuss what these movements might mean (emotions, actions or messages, symbolism) in
their drama groups on small whiteboards
Share their thoughts as a whole class
Explain that the Aboriginal people used dances to share stories just like we might sit around and watch TV
at night they would share dances with one another almost every evening
Talk about showing respect for their traditional dances, explain just like we have traditions so too do they,
and we must show respect
Show the YouTube video of the crane bird
Have a YouTube clip of a crane bird dance ready and compare the movements
Get the students to identify what the movements were
To finish off the lesson get the students to copy your movements around the room of the crane bird

Conclusion Think: What were the main ideas/concepts of the lesson?
To finish off the lesson get the students to copy the movements around the room of the crane bird have 1
person who will decide what the movements are, and then pick another volunteer remind them to be safe,
and also appropriate so that no one gets hurt


Differentiation Think: How can I modify (different content) or adjust (same content simplified / extended) this lesson?





My reflections Think: Evaluate using de Bonos six thinking hats.
Red Hat Think: How did I feel about my lesson?



Yellow Hat Think: What were the positive things about my lesson?



Black Hat Think: How could I improve my lesson?



Blue Hat Think: What thinking did I observe?



White Hat Think: What facts still need to be learnt or built on?



Green Hat Think: How could I develop my lesson further?

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