Dance / Year 3 and 4

Curriculum content descriptions

Practise technical skills safely in fundamental movements (ACADAM006)

Elaborations
  • practising combinations of fundamental locomotor and non-locomotor movements to a range of musical accompaniment, for example, running and sliding; bending and stretching; running, swinging, walking and stretching
  • developing body awareness and refining technical skills of body control, accuracy, alignment, strength, balance and coordination in fundamental movements in response to teacher’s feedback and observation of other dancers’ technical skills
  • demonstrating safe dance practices, for example, warming up their bodies before executing more complex movement patterns in dance sequences and cooling/calming down afterwards; removing socks if the floor surface is slippery (and clean)
  • building confidence and resilience through practising technical skills
ScOT terms

Movement sequences,  Locomotor skills

Interactive

Disco dancing

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

Online

Blast off! Life in space - teacher resource

This teacher resource is a comprehensive sequence of teacher ideas and student activities that support the arts curriculum in drama and dance, using ideas about space exploration, the universe and the life of an astronaut as stimulus. It includes a link to the video 'Blast off with NASA astronaut Rex Walheim'. This video ...

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Dance Geometry

Body, space and time are the three components that you need to consider when generating a new dance. This resource is designed to provide inspiration to teachers to use maths and geometry to inspire movement creation with students.