Dance Lesson - Exploring Feelings in Dance

Encourage your students to explore feelings through dance sequences with this introductory dance lesson for Kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade students. This teacher resource assists teachers in a dance lesson where students explore how different emotions can be portrayed through movement and create their own dance sequences based on different feelings. The extensive teacher support resources makes this lesson perfect for any teacher, no matter your dance experience.

This lesson includes outcomes/standards for the Australian Curriculum, New Zealand Curriculum and the National Core Arts Standards.

These activities are designed for Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2 students. If you are teaching students in another year level, please check the preview to determine if it is suitable for your classroom.

This resource includes

✫ Dance Lesson Plan (Extended, in-depth version)

✫ Dance Lesson Plan (Condensed, 1 page version)

✫ Teacher Consideration Notes (to support teaching and learning)

✫ Vocabulary and Music Notes (including links to playlists on an external site)

✫ Safe Dance Behavior Poster (in color and black and white)

✫ Teacher Prompt Card for Warm-Up, Exploration, Developing and Cool Down ✫ Activities - to assist teachers during the lesson (in color and black and white)

✫ Exploring Feelings in Dance Note Taking Sheets for happy, sad, angry and surprised

✫ Feelings Cards and Pages

✫ Feelings Event Options to Support Students

✫ Sequence Recording Sheet

✫ Reflection Task (3 versions)

This resource is available in US English in Letter Format and UK/Australian/NZ English in A4 format. Both versions are PDF files, 41 pages long.

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There's more fabulous Galarious Goods resources available including:

⭐ Dance Lesson - Exploring and Developing Walking

⭐ Dance Lesson - Exploring Hands, Arms and Levels

⭐ Dance Lesson - Combining Walking, Counting and Arms

⭐ Dance Lesson - Running, Galloping and Skipping

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