Dance 1 · Week 6 · Body Awareness and Safe Space
Brave Moves
Students improvise to unfamiliar music, notice self-consciousness, and celebrate trying something new.
- Students will
- Students improvise to unfamiliar music, explore unfamiliar movement, and select one idea that develops into a short phrase.
- SEL skill
- Set a small goal and use a strategy to keep going despite self-consciousness
- What it looks like
- Students notice self-consciousness, name it, and keep trying with a goal.
- Content focus
- Brave Moves
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-management
Self-management is guiding your emotions, thoughts, and actions so you can reach your goals. More self-management 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:Cr1.1.HSI: Dance, Creating, Anchor Standard 1 (Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Creating
- Level: High School Proficient
More self-management activities for Dance 1
- Breath and Movement Self-managementStudents link breath to slow movement sequences and practice using them to calm stress.
- Revising a Dance Self-managementStudents clarify the intent of their dance study using peer feedback and self-reflection and commit to one revision.
- Documenting Movement Self-managementStudents film and annotate their dance study and compare how it felt with how it looks.
- Dance and Wellbeing Self-managementStudents research how movement supports mental health and design a short routine for stressful days.
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