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Dance / Year 3 and 4 / Developing practices and skills
Curriculum content descriptions
experiment with and practise skills for moving safely and expressively using fundamental movement skills and the elements of dance (AC9ADA4D01)
Elaborations
- exploring known movements to find alternative ways of performing them; for example, waving hello or shaking hands and then doing the same action/s at different levels, in different directions, bigger/smaller or using a different body part, zone or base
- using contrast and repetition (choreographic devices) to explore and generate new movement in response to stimuli such as stories, memories or the environment
- exploring how the elements of dance can be used to communicate ideas, such as exploring how cultural stories can be shared through dance; for example, using the elements of dance to develop locomotor and non-locomotor movements to represent different aspects of a story (how a character walks, their emotions or the mood of a place in the story)
- developing the habit of always using safe dance practice; 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
- developing body awareness and refining technical skills of body control, accuracy, alignment, strength, balance and coordination in fundamental movements; for example, in response to teacher feedback
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Eye contact, Fundamental movement skills, Locomotor skills, Audiences, Human movement, Dance, Facial expressions, Movement sequences, Dance composition, Balancing (Motor coordination), Non-locomotor movement