Disco dancing

Explore the elements of dance to develop locomotor and non-locomotor movement skills, disco-style shapes and expressive qualities

Student dance resource developed by The Arts Unit

Kindergarten to Year 6 dance

Your students will:

• learn movement sequences to create a dance  

• develop locomotor and non-locomotor movement skills, disco-style shapes and expressive qualities 

• explore the elements of dance to vary movement sequences

• perform dance sequences to music.

Movements can be varied to suit student ability. Assistance may be required to support lesson implementation. 

Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus

• DAES1.1: participates in dance activities and demonstrates an awareness of body parts, control over movement and expressive qualities. 

• DAS1.1: performs dances demonstrating expressive qualities and control over a range of locomotor and non-locomotor movement. 

• DAS2.1: performs dances from a range of contexts, demonstrating movement skills, expressive qualities and an understanding of the elements of dance. 

• DAS3.1: performs and interprets dances from particular contexts, using a wide range of movement skills and appropriate expressive qualities. 

Collection of student work

• Google Forms: 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. As students submit their responses, they will be automatically collected in a Google Sheets document. You can access this document by clicking on the 'Responses' tab in the form editor. 

• Google Assignments: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.  

• Microsoft 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.

• Flip: create a video conversation. Flip is a website that allows teachers to create 'grids'. 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. 

• Google Jamboard: create an interactive whiteboard that can be used for class feedback.

Further support on how to create these resources

• Get started with Google Forms

• Create a Google Classroom assignment

• Assign quizzes to students through Microsoft Teams 

• Create an assignment in Microsoft Teams

• Flip Educator Toolkit

• Get started with Google Jamboard