Dance 1 · Week 4 · Body Awareness and Safe Space
Breath and Movement
Students link breath to slow movement sequences and practice using them to calm stress.
- Students will
- Students link breath to a slow movement sequence and use it to lower stress while maintaining healthy alignment.
- SEL skill
- Use breath and slow movement to lower stress and choose a reset strategy
- What it looks like
- Students practice calming strategies and choose which one helps them reset.
- Content focus
- Breath and Movement
- 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
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Standards
- DA:Pr5.1.HSI: Dance, Performing, Presenting, or Producing, Anchor Standard 5 (Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Performing, Presenting, or Producing
- Level: High School Proficient
More self-management activities for Dance 1
- Brave Moves Self-managementStudents improvise to unfamiliar music, notice self-consciousness, and celebrate trying something new.
- 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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