Dance 1 · Week 1 · Body Awareness and Safe Space
My Moving Story
Students create a short gesture phrase from moments in their lives and reflect on how they feel about moving in front of others.
- Students will
- Students create a four gesture phrase from moments in their lives and connect it to an artistic intent about identity.
- SEL skill
- Name a feeling that comes with moving and a strength used while creating a phrase
- What it looks like
- Students recognize the feelings that come with moving in front of others and name a strength they bring to dance.
- Content focus
- My Moving Story
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is recognizing your own emotions, thoughts, values, and strengths and how they influence what you do. More self-awareness 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: Connecting
- Level: High School Proficient
More self-awareness activities for Dance 1
- Listening to the Body Self-awarenessStudents learn alignment basics and a body scan and notice where emotions and tension live in their bodies.
- Energy and Emotion Self-awarenessStudents analyze how movement qualities such as sharp, smooth, and heavy express emotion and try each quality in their own bodies.
- Folklórico and Family Self-awarenessStudents learn about the regional roots of ballet folklórico and reflect on the dances that live in their own families.
- Semester Reflection Self-awarenessStudents reflect in writing on how their skills, confidence, and comfort moving in front of others have changed this semester.
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.