PE 10 QUARTER 3 MODULE 1

ACTIVE RECREATION: DANCE & HEALTH BENEFITS

Introduction
After going through this module, you are expected to: describe
what recreational and dance is; determine what physical activities
can sustain fitness; and enumerate health benefits of dancing.
Most Essential Learning Competencies:
• Assess physical activity, exercise and eating habits.
• Engage in moderate to vigorous physical activities for at least
60 minutes a day in and out of school.
• Express a sense of purpose and belongingness by
participating in physical activity-related community services
and programs.

Development
Learning Task 1: PRETEST 1
Feel free to answer this activity. Don’t worry about the result. I just
want to know where you are or how much you know about the topic.
Ready? Let’s start! Directions: Write AGREE, if you think the
statement is correct and DISAGREE if otherwise. Write your
complete answer on your activity sheet.
1. One can help the community by sharing his/her knowledge and
skills in dancing.
2. Proper execution of dance steps increases the risk injuries.
3. Brisk walking and dancing are activities which are moderate
intensity.
4. Street and Hip-hop dances are active recreational activities.
5. Surfing on the internet and playing computer games greatly
improve one’s fitness.
Learning Task 2: REVIEW OF PREVIOUS LESSON
(WW1)
Directions: Match the given instruction in column A to the dance
step in column B. Write the letter on your activity/answer sheet.
Column A Column B
1. Starting with the Right foot, step side then a. Turn Step
close left Foot to right foot with arm pumping b. Pump Step
at chest level. c. Hip Roll
2. Starting with the right foot, slide to the right d. Hip-hop wave
and push Down right arm and full leg left leg up. e. Pull down
Repeat starting with the left foot.
3. Starting with the right foot, do a 3-step turn
to the right and snap both fingers down.
Repeat starting with the left foot.
4. Wave right arm upper moving to
the right. Repeat Moving to the left.
5. Bend both knees and push hips to
the right then cross-cross step left.
Repeat moving to the left.

Lesson: ACTIVE RECREATION: DANCE & HEALTH BENEFITS

Active Recreation is a therapeutic refreshment of relaxations of
one’s body and mind. Activities done for this purpose are called
recreational activities. Its main objective is to revitalize the
physical, mental, social, and emotional aspects of a person.
In today’s situation, the world is facing a pandemic (COVID19), we
all need to engage in recreational activities to relieve our tensions.
Dance is a recreational activity that can develop our physical,
mental, social, and emotional health. Dancing as part of our
lifestyle can surely sustain our fitness. But it should be coupled
with proper eating habits and weight management in order for a
person to live a healthy lifestyle.
Dance is defined in different ways by different people or authors of
the art form.

• Dance transforms images, ideas and feelings into sequences

of movement that are personally and socially significant.
• Dance is a performance art form consisting of purposefully
selected sequences of human movement that has aesthetic
and symbolic value, and is acknowledge as dance within a
culture.
• Dance, the movements of the body in a rhythmic way, usually
to music and within a given space, for the purpose of
expressing an idea or emotion, releasing energy, or simply
taking delight in the movement itself.
• Dance is a broadly conceived as physical movement organized
into patterns in time and space.
Have you wondered where the dance came from? Or when did it
started? Who is the first person who learns to dance? In this
module we will answer all of these questions.

UNDERSTANDING DANCE
The universal knowledge of dance is a movement using the body
as the medium or instrument to express its meaning, or
significance. To comprehend a dance, one must gain background
and understanding from simple to complex movements interpreting
how and why the use of the body part and whole body to a
particular order hence, Dance becomes a physical activity executed
in a musical pattern and an accompaniment. The nature of human
body calls for its natural impulse and rhythm and therefore
exhibits a natural phenomenon on how it moves in space (an area
of the performance) or the body space itself or space that is referred
to as the freedom of movement without the obstruction wherein the
body that expresses unique properties and qualities.

HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF DANCE

• Plato concurred with his master Socrates that every educated
man should know how to dance gracefully - underscoring the
manly exercises that kept a body strong, supple and ready to do its
duty are all taken from the training called weapon dance or war
dance.

• From among the Greeks, dancing was

associated with Dionysian merrymaking, as
evidence on vase paintings and stone
carvings as presented by scientist of the
time.

• The early Christians included their teachings a love hate

relationship to the body, as they could not accommodate the
dancing body to their worship.

On other hand, Dances are unlike paintings or sculpture.

Apparently and in certain cultural context, they are created,
appreciated and analyzed as art works of human movement.
The earliest history of human dance is a continuing mystery. Some
archaeologists have speculated that dance originated some 5,000
to 9,000 years ago in early agricultural cultures. Speculations
aside. Our specific knowledge of prehistoric dances is lacking, and
many experts have extrapolated dance history from the preserved
ritual dances of various preliterate societies.

Many native dances reflect most of the purposes of dance. They

are of a ritualistic or ceremonial nature.
-The war dance, expressing prayer for success and thanksgiving for
victory. -The dance of exorcism or healing, performed by shamans
to drive out evil spirits;
-The dance of invocation, calling on the gods for help in farming,
hunting, the fertility of human beings and animals, and other tribal
concerns;
-Initiation dances for secret societies;
-Mimetic dances, illustrating events in tribal history, legends, or
mythology;
-Dances representing cosmic processes;
-The dance of courtship, an invocation for success of love;
-Dance of religious ecstasy, in which hypnotic or trance-like states
are induce.

Dance teaches the importance of movement and fitness in the

variety of reasons. Dancers learn to coordinate muscles to move
through proper positions and can be a way to stay fit for people of
all ages, shapes, and sizes. Dance is an enjoyable health-promoting
physical activity which many people include into their lifestyle
today. Not only is it important physically but contributes to one’s
mental health and social interactions.

Dances can be classified as Folk or Native, Foreign, Folk, Social,

Ballroom, creative or interpretative, contemporary, street dance,
Hip-hop, and other similar forms. Dancing has a wide range of
benefits including:
• Improve condition of your heath and lungs
• Increase muscular strength, endurance and motor fitness
• Increase aerobic fitness
• Improve muscle tone and strength
• Weight management
• Stronger bones and reduce osteoporosis
• Better condition, agility and flexibility
• Improve balance and spatial awareness
• Increase physical confidence
• Improved mental functions
Engagement
Learning Task 3: WRAP – UP (WW2)
There are many forms of recreational activities, on these is
dancing it involves body movement through given and free space
with rhythmic pattern. Dance can be classified as folk, social,
ballroom, creative, interpretative, contemporary, street dance, hip-
hop dance. It enhances good mood and makes a person live a long
happy life.

Directions: Read the sentences carefully and choose the letter

on the best answer. Write your answer on your answer sheet.

1. Dance transforms images, ideas and ______ into sequence of

movement.
a. feelings b. experiences c.
pictures
2. A dance that expresses prayer for success and thanksgiving for
victory.
a. Initiation Dance b. Dance of courtship c. War Dance
3. It is defined as activities that engaged in for the purpose of
relaxation, health, and well –being
a. Active Recreation b. Passive Recreation c. Games
4. One of the benefits of dancing is ________.
a. having skin problem b. improve flexibility c. unhealthy
mind 5. Who said that every educated man should know
how to dance gracefully- underscoring the manly exercises
that kept a body strong.
a. Socrates b. Plato c. Aristotle

Learning Task 4: PERFORMANCE TASK 1(Poster-

Slogan Making)
Directions: Create a colorful poster-slogan about “Health in
Dancing”. These includes the benefits of dancing to our health. Use
a separate sheet of short typewriting to do this activity.
Be guided by the following rubrics:
Criteria 10 – Outstanding 9 – Very 8- Satisfactory 7- Fair 6–
Slogan is Slogan is Slogan is Poor
 exceptional Satisfactory acceptable distractingly Slogan
attractive in Slogan is attractive though messy. is poorly
terms of attractive in terms it may be a bit made
neatness well- of neatness. messy
constructed and Good
not messy construction and
not very messy

Craftmanship
Originality
Creativity

Assimilation
Learning Task 5. POSTTEST
Directions: Identify the term being described. Write your
answer on your activity/answer sheet.

1. It is a therapeutic refreshment of relaxations of one’s

body and mind.
2. Its main objective is to revitalize the physical, mental,
social, and emotional aspects of a person.
3. a performance art form consisting of purposefully
selected sequences of human movement that has
aesthetic and symbolic value, and is acknowledge as
dance within a culture.
4. A dance that expresses prayer for success and
thanksgiving for victory.
5. A dance performed by shamans to drive out evil spirits;
6. A dance calling on the gods for help in farming, hunting,
the fertility of human beings and animals, and other
tribal concerns;
7. A dance for secret societies;
8. Dances that illustrate events in tribal history, legends,
or mythology;
9. A dance that is an invocation for success of love;
 10. A dance in which hypnotic or trance-like states are
induce.

Learning Task 6. REFLECTION 1

Do this in your activity/answer sheet.
Complete the following:
1. In this lesson, I learned (knowledge) that
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2. In this lesson, I discovered (skills) that
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3. In this lesson, I realized (feelings) that
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