Weather: gestures, turns, travel and jumps
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use a range of actions to communicate different types of weather.
Key learning points
- Move: communicating different weather through actions requires the use of gestures, jumps, turns, travels and stillness.
- Think: imagination enables us to create and communicate a range of actions.
- Feel: courage supports us to demonstrate our ideas.
- Connect: listening to our partner’s ideas and treating them fairly helps us understand and perform clearly.
Keywords
Choreography - making a dance
Communicate - how we share information
Gesture - a sign or action made with the upper body to show how we feel or to communicate without using words
Common misconception
In dance we are pretending to 'be' the subject we are creating a dance about.
In dance we use the subject to help us think of movements that show what it is like. Pretending to be something is a drama skill that is used in some, but not all dance.
Teacher tip
Allow pupils (within reason) to make the sound effect associated to some actions, e.g. the flash of lightning, when in the exploration and rehearsal sections of the lesson, as this will support their application of the appropriate dynamic.
Equipment
Additional material: poem and suggested music
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What is working as a pair also known as?
Q2.What do we use to create new ideas?
Q3.Which of these is a dance action?
Q4.What do we demonstrate when we show or talk about our ideas?
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What do we mean by choreography?
Q2.What does working fairly with a partner involve?
Q3.What does communication mean?
Q4.What type of action is pointing at an object?
To help you plan your 2 physical education lesson on: Weather: gestures, turns, travel and jumps, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 2 physical education lesson on: Weather: gestures, turns, travel and jumps, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom.
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