This website provides units of work including video links, music and assessments for R to 6 students. They can develop personal and social skills, and learn to critically appraise cultural and social factors that shape their own identities, bodies and communities.
Structure and features
For teachers
Learning and teaching programs in Dance link with The arts, and with Health and Physical Education. When teaching Dance, these two curriculum areas complement each other.
In the Health and Physical Education curriculum area, the emphasis is on dance as a lifelong physical activity and the development of movement skills, concepts and patterns. In Health and Physical Education, dance can be taught through the rhythmic and expressive movement activities focus area.
Dance sample units
Teaching and learning programs for students in Foundation through to Year 6 can link with both areas of the curriculum. For example:
Teacher notes
Strand
- movement and physical activity
Focus areas
- lifelong physical activity
- rhythmic and expressive activities.
Cross curriculum links
- The arts
- English
- Science.
