@The Arts Unit Creative Classes
@The Arts Unit Creative Classes
Student dance resource developed by The Arts Unit
Years 7 to 10 dance
Your students will:
explore dance technique and the elements of dance as influenced by performance and theatrical style
perform dances with increasing confidence, communicating the intention of the choreographer
differentiate and make connections between the social and historical contexts of dance and the development of style.
Stage 4
4.1.3: demonstrates an understanding of aspects of performance quality through the performance of locomotor and non-locomotor combinations, sequences and dances.
4.3.1: describes dance performances through the elements of dance.
4.3.2: identifies that dance works of art express ideas.
Stage 5
5.1.3: demonstrates an understanding and application of aspects of performance quality and interpretation through performance.
5.3.1: describes and analyses dance as the communication of ideas within a context.
5.3.3: applies understandings and experiences drawn from their own work and dance works of art.
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.
Download and print this document to send to students with limited access to online resources.
Would you like to promote your school and showcase your students' work 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 include the Creative Class title and your school name in the email so we can share on The Arts Unit social media and our website.
Dance 7-10 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2003, copied under s113P, accessed 10 May 2020.