WORKSHEET ONE

Dance teaching Plan Year7/ 8 Level 3 Achievement Objectives: PK: Children will explore through movement, combining and contrasting dance elements. DI: Children will select, combine and use elements of dance to develop ideas. CI: Children will present, dance and respond to their own and others dance works . Duration : 6-8 sessions Topic : War Of The Worlds Strand : PK, DI, CI. Learning Outcomes : Children will: Listen to, interpret and discuss images from a piece of music. Improvise group movement using the parachute as a prop. Explore movement to choreograph a movement sequence Perform the movement sequence Discuss and evaluate their own and others performance. Materials and Resources: Jeff Wayne’s musical version of the War Of The Worlds (double CD ) Parachute Videos : Clips from any number of Sci Fi Movies e.g Star Wars, E.T, Independence Day, Men In Black. Essential Skills: Physical : . Problem Solving: Social and Cooperative;. Communication: Assessment Criteria: : Can initiate and plan dance ideas after listening to a piece of music. DI (Level 2) Demonstrates skill in movement when performing a movement sequence. PK Selects and uses elements of dance creatively to express an idea DI Can evaluate own performance and that of others. CI 4: Working above required level. 3: Working at required level 2: Usually working at required level. 1: Requires assistance to meet AO’s Lesson Sequence Phase Procedure Introductory Listen to “The Eve Of The War” Track 1 “War Of The Worlds” Listening and Writing Paint a picture / draw images that come to mind as a response to the music Activity Discuss the images chosen – How did they develop from a response to the music. Fill in Worksheet One. Teaching Points Assessment One Part One Warm up. Students stand around parachute Move parachute up and down. Number off. On their number students run under the parachute changing places. Remaining students need to hold it up. Throw up and trap air under it. Explore ways of moving round in a circle carrying the parachute. There are numerous other warm up activities that can be carried out using a parachute. Teaching Sequence Introduce the spaceship idea. Investigate ways of moving the parachute so that it looks like a space ship. (Whole class Activity ) Make decisions on movement choices. Practice as a class. Video class attempt –and discuss results. Allow for plenty of time for students to work through the problem solving required here. Closure Finalise structure of this first part of the dance. Part Two Listening and Writing Listen to music Track 2 Horsnell Common; Worksheet 2 Share Alien pictures Brainstorm action words for ways in which aliens might move. Examples wobble, vibrate, lurch, Warm Up Students in own spaces in the room. Call out an action word from Alien list. Students carry out that activity. Repeat the movement but add an element e.g do it slowly, with a different body base, on You could also have the words on cards on floor and children move from one to another another level, Repeat with more words and elements. Lesson Sequence. Task: Students individually chose words and make an alien movement sequence by combining the words. (3-4 words only) They can refer to their picture and the brainstorming list to help them.. Their movement sequence must move from one area of the room to another in an Encourage use of other interesting pathway. And use more than one dance elements as well. level. Closure View and respond to others choreography Each individual shows their movements to some one else. Students offer each other suggestions for improvements. Assessment Two Warm-Up When individuals have their own sequence, discuss how some of the aliens drawn by the class have more body parts than humans. Question: how could we show that.? Task: Students get into pairs and explore ways of combining their bodies into interesting alien shapes including moving shapes. (moving in and out of shapes or moving around in a shape.) View and respond to others choreography Discuss sequence of events suggested by the music (Beginning/End Task:To make a whole class dance. Start with words at beginning of CD. Do Parachute part. Use words about when the lid of the spaceship falls off. Improvise this part with the words. Aliens emerge and dance their individual dances all together or some at a time. Hold frozen alien shape when not dancing. Form into pairs and continue with pair dances Work out an ending.e,g move back into spaceship and “take off” If they don’t find some pictures of some. Assessment Three Practice the class dance. Video the sequence View and discuss;  Have the required images been communicated through this dance  How can this be improved. Assessment Four Perform the dance to an audience. Worksheet (Assessment –recording respons Children will write evaluation on prepared sheet to stick in Arts book. WORKSHEET ONE Name: Date: I think the story told by the music is about… In this particular part of the story… The music sounds like… The images I have drawn in my picture are… The images that I have drawn which could be portrayed with movement are… Worksheet Two The space ship has landed. The aliens are about to emerge from their ship. “But looking, I presently saw something stirring within the shadow: greyish billowy movements one above another, and then two luminous disks like eyes.” Here are some pictures of aliens as some people have imagined them. Study them closely and listen carefully to the music. Draw what you think an alien would look like. Unit Evaluation Tell us about your experience as an alien during this unit. Which parts did you enjoy the most---and the least? What activities were helpful when you were thinking up movement to fit your images? WERE YOU SUCCESSFUL??? You can illustrate your page if you like.