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Cultural Dancing

chelseamunro1 — 2024-10-14 09:34:42 UTC

Rainforestation. (n.d.). Traditional Aboriginal dances. Rainforestation. https://www.rainforest.com.au/traditional-aboriginal-dances/

This resource provides children with a collection of dance videos from The First Nations Peoples. Through this introduction to the way different cultures use dance, promoting awareness, appreciation and understanding of different cultures. Students are then encouraged to discuss what they’ve watched and talk about what cultures they know that use dance.

Laban Movement Analysis

chelseamunro1 — 2024-10-14 09:37:05 UTC

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). (2020). Years 9 and 10 dance: Laban movement analysis teacher resource sheet. AIATSIS. https://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-09/years-9-and-10-dance-laban-movement-analysis-teacher-resource-sheet.pdf.

Laban Movement Analysis allows students to begin and start describing their dancing movements. Focusing on describing what part of the body is actually moving and the coordination process the body goes through in order to make a dance move. It also focusses on the quality of the movements being done and how energy can be utilised to help convey messages. The Laban Movement analysis helps children break down complex movements into adaptable pieces. This activity can be suitable for all students all ages and abilities. Posters that demonstrate the 4 areas of the Laban movement analysis can be presented to the students.

Crazy Boot-Scootin'

chelseamunro1 — 2024-10-14 09:39:48 UTC

Use Line-dancing as an introduction to the art of social dancing. Line dancing is a sequence of repetitive moves and routines and can be done without a partner. When children begin to learn line dancing, they are able to dance in their own space and repeat moves until they feel comfortable joining in with a group. Students also have the freedom to work at their own pace and to even create their own line dances to ensure they are able to complete the moves within that sequence of steps.

Victorian Department of Education. (2019). VCAA Sample Unit: Crazy Boot Scootin'. ARC. https://arc.educationapps.vic.gov.au/learning/resource/c9ce8a39-420d-4fbf-969b-3f8ad7c32ae7?fuse=1

Freeze Frame - Drama cards

chelseamunro1 — 2024-10-14 09:42:24 UTC

This is an activity that uses cards to initiate a pose that is representative of a feeling or situation. This is a great tool to help children begin to understand how emotions can influence body language and character experiences/development. This activity helps young students learn to be expressive using their physical bodies instead of using movement or verbal cues. Students can also have input into what emotions can go onto the cards and even broaden their horizons with this activity as they become more confident and comfortable with it.

Drama Trunk. (n.d.). Freeze frames drama activities. Drama Trunk. https://www.dramatrunk.com/product-page/freeze-frames-drama-activities

Story Stones

chelseamunro1 — 2024-10-14 09:45:42 UTC

These rocks or stones picture different types of characters on them or could represent a setting, an item or an event. Students use these stones to help create a small story based on the stones they put together. These stones work to help inspire hand on play activities and storytelling within drama. These stones help students to create without fear of being wrong as these stones can be interpreted differently depending on the student and their context. Students can also have a say to what goes on the stones (could use paper if stones are not available).

Dinham, J. (2019). Delivering authentic arts education. Cengage.

Steps into Storytelling

chelseamunro1 — 2024-10-14 09:46:55 UTC

This resource allows children to think about what goes into making a story and breaking it down into smaller components. It engages students into the world of storytelling in drama and combines elements from of drama and movement. Get students to think about the location or setting of the story and what kind of characters exist in that world. This activity allows students to participate in the process of arts making and allows then to visualize drama as a narrative. Students can be encouraged to add in elements that reflect their cultures and can be adapted to reflect students of all abilities. For example, as a class come up with an imaginary place and think about who would live there and what would exist within that world.

Dinham, J. (2019). Delivering authentic arts education. Cengage.

Classics for kids

chelseamunro1 — 2024-10-14 09:52:08 UTC

Classics for Kids. (n.d.). Classics for Kids. Classics for Kids. https://www.classicsforkids.com/

This site is a great resource regarding teaching children classical music, providing students with small snippets of classical pieces and also providing educators with worksheets and lesson plans on how to teach music to children.

Cultural Music

chelseamunro1 — 2024-10-14 09:53:09 UTC

Through a carefully curated collection of traditional aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditional music and have children listen and analyse the musical patterns that exist within that music. The Australian Music Centre has a collection of Aboriginal Music that children can learn with and gain appreciation and understanding.

Australian Music Centre. (n.d.). Australian music centre. Australian Music Centre. https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/

Sound pictures

chelseamunro1 — 2024-10-14 09:54:01 UTC

Create a sound scape such as that of a storm approaching using different instruments within the classroom. This activity can be used to help students develop a deeper understanding of how different sounds and music can be used throughout a scene and create different emotions. This game works to engage students in the elements of music such as the volume or dynamics and speed or tempo. The sounds will be different depending on the instruments available within the classrooms.

Dinham, J. (2019). Delivering authentic arts education. Cengage.

Choreography Cards

chelseamunro1 — 2024-10-14 09:56:17 UTC

a collection of printable cards that have basic dance moves on them. Like can be moves such as hop, slide, wave your arms. These cards can be rearranged and shuffled to create new choreography.

Twinkl. (n.d.). Create a dance routine snap cards. Twinkl. https://www.twinkl.com.au/resource/create-a-dance-routine-snap-cards-cfe-pe-68

Mime Skills

chelseamunro1 — 2024-10-14 09:58:44 UTC

Students each think of an object to write down and out into a hat, they then stand into a line and the first child pulls one item out of the hat. This student uses miming to try describing the object to the next child in line. The message gets passed along until the last child has to describe the object out loud.

Dinham, J. (2019). Delivering authentic arts education. Cengage.

Music and Dancing

chelseamunro1 — 2024-10-14 10:01:45 UTC

This resource provides teachers with a collection of videos that allow students to learn and follow basic choreography by using a simple beat and repetitious, nursery rhyme like lyrics.

GoNoodle. (n.d.). The pirate life [Video]. GoNoodle. https://www.gonoodle.com/videos/6YlB12/the-pirate-life

Dance + Drama + music = Musical

chelseamunro1 — 2024-10-14 10:03:55 UTC

This site provides educators with abundant resources to help children learn drama. Throughout it it contains other resources that connect to music and dance

Drama Resource. (n.d.). Drama resource. Drama Resource. https://dramaresource.com/