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Dance to develop locomotor and non-locomotor movement skills and expressive qualities 

Student dance resource developed by The Arts Unit

Kindergarten to Year 4 dance

Your students will:

• learn movement sequences to create a dance  

• develop locomotor and non-locomotor movement skills and expressive qualities 

• explore the elements of dance to vary movement sequences 

• perform dance sequences to music.

Students may need support with this lesson. Students can vary movements to suit as required. 

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. 

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

• Get started with Google Forms

• Create a Google Classroom Assignment

• Assign quizzes to students  through Microsoft Teams 

• Create an assignment in Microsoft Teams

• Educators – getting started with Flipgrid

• Get started with Jamboard