Dance 1 · Week 2 · Body Awareness and Safe Space
A Safe Space to Move
Students cocreate studio agreements and practice a group warmup that welcomes every body and ability level.
- Students will
- Students cocreate studio agreements and lead and follow a welcoming group warmup that includes every body and ability level.
- SEL skill
- State a need respectfully and listen to a group member's request
- What it looks like
- Students practice communicating needs and listening so everyone feels included.
- Content focus
- A Safe Space to Move
- Format
- Small group problem-solving
Relationship skills
Relationship skills are the ways you build and keep healthy connections through listening, communicating, cooperating, and solving conflict. More relationship skills activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- DA:Pr6.1.HSI: Dance, Performing, Presenting, or Producing, Anchor Standard 6 (Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Performing, Presenting, or Producing
- Level: High School Proficient
More relationship skills activities for Dance 1
- Time and Togetherness Relationship skillsGroups dance a rhythmic phrase in unison and in canon and notice how shared timing builds connection.
- Feedback in the Studio Relationship skillsStudents give feedback on a peer's dance study using kind, specific language and revise their own study.
- Group Choreography Relationship skillsGroups collaborate on a short dance using choreographic devices and practice making sure every member's ideas appear in it.
- Trust in Partnering Relationship skillsPartners practice counterbalance and weight sharing with clear verbal check ins, building trust step by step.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.