Digital @ The Arts Unit Creative Classes
Boy Overboard
Teacher notes
Understand and appreciate dance as a means of communicating ideas
Teacher dance resource developed by The Arts Unit
Years 5 and 6 dance
What will your students learn?
Students will learn how to perform using expressive qualities, compose movement in response to stimuli and appreciate movement by analysing and reflecting on a dance work.
Your students will:
describe a personal response to a dance work
perform with an awareness of storytelling
improvise using the elements of dance
reflect on their own activities as a dancer, composer and viewer of dance.
Syllabus outcomes
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus
DAS3.1: performs and interprets dances from particular contexts, using a wide range of movement skills and appropriate expressive qualities.
DAS3.2: explores, selects, organises and refines movement using the elements of dance to communicate intent.
DAS3.3: discusses and interprets the relationship between content, meaning and context in their own and others’ dances.
Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students
This dance work is based on the book 'Boy Overboard' by Morris Gleitzman. Teachers are encouraged to use this resource as an addition to their own units of work using the book.
Activities teachers could use to support this as a stand-alone lesson include:
Activity 1: Discuss the context of the book with the students and ask them to write three brief diary entries about:
being separated from their parents
braving storms at sea
hunger.
Activity 2: Have students use their jumper as a prop. Ask them to create a phrase of movement that involves:
losing their jumper
looking for their jumper
using the jumper as a blanket.
Activity 3: Have students pick a character (Jamal or Bibi) and have them write a diary entry about their love for their sibling and how scared they are.
Activity 4: Ask students to write a story about the life Jamal and Bibi have now. Have students create a movement phrase that demonstrates this.
Collection of student work
Google Form: create a Google form with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create. Email this form to your students with the Creative Class link and all your student responses will be combined in a Google sheet.
Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.
MS Teams: create a quiz or assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create.
Email: ask your students to email you any responses and files they create.
Flipgrid: a website that allows teachers to create 'grids' to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is a message board where teachers can pose questions called 'topics'. Students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.
Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used for class feedback.
For further support on how to create these resources
Offline access
Download and print this document to send to students with limited access to online resources.
Boy Overboard - The Arts Unit @home Creative Classes.docxWould you like to have your school promoted and your students work showcased as a result of engaging in this Creative Class?
Help us celebrate the fantastic work of NSW public school students by emailing photos or videos that you have permission to share and comments on how your students enjoyed the class to digital.artsunit@det.nsw.edu.au.
Please ensure you include the creative class title and your school name in the email so we can share on The Arts Unit social media pages and on our website.
Teacher feedback
Third-party content attributions
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2006, copied under s113P, accessed 10 May 2020.