Dance 1 · Week 26 · Dance in Our Community
Dance and Wellbeing
Students research how movement supports mental health and design a short routine for stressful days.
- Students will
- Students research how movement supports mental and physical health and design a short four move routine for a stressful day, applying healthy dance practices.
- SEL skill
- Choose and practice a movement and breath strategy to steady my body when stress rises
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-management by choosing a movement and breath strategy they can use to steady their emotions.
- Content focus
- Dance and Wellbeing
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-management
Self-management is guiding your emotions, thoughts, and actions so you can reach the goals you set. 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: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: Connecting
- 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.
- 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.
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