@The Arts Unit Creative Classes
Embedded Files
Create and analyse dance using a Dr Seuss stimulus
Create and analyse dance using a Dr Seuss stimulus
Teacher dance resource developed by The Arts Unit
Years 5 and 6 dance
What will your students learn?
What will your students learn?
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
Syllabus outcomes
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus
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 relationshio between content, meaning and context in their own and others’ dances.
Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students
Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students
This dance work is based on the themes and characters in Dr Suess books. Teachers are encouraged to use this resource as an addition to their own units of work using the Dr Suess books.
Activities teachers could use to support this as a stand-alone lesson are:
Activity 1: Use the song as an stimulus to write rhyming poetry.
Activity 2: Use the Dr Suess characters to write creatively about a given scenario.
Collection of student work
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
For further support on how to create these resources
Offline access
Offline access
Download and print this document to send to students with limited access to online resources.
Oh, The Thinks You Can Think! - @The Arts Unit Creative Classes.docxWould 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.
Teacher feedback
Teacher feedback
Third-party content attributions
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 16 July 2020.
Page updated
Report abuse