Planning & Teaching a Dance Lesson
Team Members: Tommy Covelli, Chelsea Jocelyn, Masai Rains, Katherine Vovoulis and Lucia Pampana
Objective:
Teaching students that they can learn to work as a team towards a collective
effort without verbal skills (i.e. without speaking)
Age Group: 3rd
Graders
Activity:
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Warm Up
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5 Minute
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Let One Child Choose The Instrumental Each Class
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Instrumentals
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Chose this because our activity focuses on not
speaking
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Full Body – Basic Warm Up
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Emotion Based Dance Movement
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Happy
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Sad
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Angry
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Here students will be given more instructions as
this is one of the more confusing emotions.
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Hungry
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Students are tasked with working as a group to
communicate these emotions through body movement. They will not be allowed to
speak to each other but should work to try to create a type of cohesive group
movement
Assessment:
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Feedback:
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2 Phases to Each Emotion State:
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Full Room
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Half Room
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Ask students to express how these dances made
them feel
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Maybe being in closer proximity would make them
feel the emotions more strongly.
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Check-In:
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Making sure the students understand each
emotion.
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This will be done before we begin the exercise.
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Team Members: Paige Ciliufo, Tiffany Chalhoub, Marissa Hanson, Mackenzie Buckley, Gillian Sutherland,
Lesson: The Weather
Team Members: Paige Ciliufo, Tiffany Chalhoub, Marissa Hanson, Mackenzie Buckley, Gillian Sutherland,
Victor Starr
Lesson: The Weather
Objective: To learn
about the weather through the usage of instruments and/ or movement and rhythm.
Lesson Plan:
Brainstorm:
Asking child what natural disasters /weather occur in said
season
Example:
“What happens in the winter?”
“What natural
disasters happen in which season?”
Winter:
It snows
Snowstorms
Summer:
Drought
Hot
Spring:
“April Showers”
Have each kid pick out of a hat and get assigned a form of
weather.
Example: “You are the wind”
Use sound and movement to become wind
Work with group “Become a snow storm”
Students work together to make sounds of wind, and snow etc.
etc., using movements and sound to become the natural disasters/ weather.
In between each individual ask “why?” “What occurred?”
“Where would this occur?” and “what it represented?”
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Lesson: Identifying Weather Conditions
Team Members: Fortune Gateno, Nate Strickler, Myra Orillac, Danielle McIntosh,
Sally Salkini, Isabella Iglesias, Xinbei Huang, Kennedi Stephens,
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Lesson: Signs of Encouragement
Team Members: Amanda Clichy-Silva, Kyra Williams, Destiny Washington,
Joe Jackson, Angela Moon, Carmen Boyd
Angela Moon & Destiny Washington demonstrating activity.
Lesson: Signs of Encouragement Dance
This activity was one of my favorites we have done in class thus far. You can learn so much through movement and that is not used enough in today's educational system. I think that especially grades 1-4 movement should be one of the main ways of teaching because children of that age learn best through movement rather than just listening to a lecture. -Tiffany Chalhoub
ReplyDeleteThe different types of weather couldn't have been taught in a funner way! My group introduced each type and made a dance move to express the type of weather. Then divided in groups to come up with a representative dance. This activity was really enriching for teaching trough a non-traditional method. -Myra Orillac
ReplyDeleteThis activity provides a kinesthetic learning experience for children. The movement provides a connection to actual lesson topic. Not being able to talk might be hard for others since that is the most common way of teaching. However, experiencing the lesson plan itself through visualization and movement provides a better form of insight on the topic.
ReplyDeleteWhat i like about this teaching experience is creating a learning environment that doesn’t involve using words. I think straying away from speaking allows for the students to explore different learning methods. Rather than trying to memorize words for an exam, they can think back to the movements they came up with themselves which will substitute a different learning experience. Overall, very fun to come up with this lesson. -Gillian Sutherland
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