Middle & High Grades 6-12: A Social Dance Unit for Schools

Dance provides the opportunity to develop social and motor skills in a non-competitive, non-sport context. This Unit outlines a course of lessons designed to promote:

• Basic and advanced motor skills
• Cognitive and spatial awareness skills (i.e. remembering routines and patterns, putting them to music, working with other people - keeping in your own space, or knowing how to use space)
• Social and team working skills when working with a partner or larger groups
• An introduction to understanding rhythm and musical appreciation
• An introduction to movement and fitness, using a form which is not "Sport" and which might therefore be attractive to students who may not be good at the usual sports and team games
• At higher levels, an awareness of how the body moves, how the muscles work, the importance of warm up and cool down and good nutrition.
• Presentation skills (during class and when presenting routines they have made up, or giving a show.)

Author: Teresa Osborn

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Feb 08, 2006

Number of Pages: 40 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 151235788X

ISBN-13: 9781512357882