Dance teaching Plan Duration : 6-8 sessions Topic : War Of The Worlds Year7/ 8 Level 3 Strand : PK, DI, CI. Achievement Objectives: Learning Outcomes:

PK: Children will explore through Children will: movement, combining and contrasting Listen to, interpret and discuss images dance elements. from a piece of music. Improvise group movement using the DI: Children will select, combine and use parachute as a prop. elements of dance to develop ideas. Explore movement to choreograph a movement sequence CI: Children will present, dance and Perform the movement sequence respond to their own and others dance Discuss and evaluate their own and others works . performance.

Materials and Resources: Essential Skills:

Jeff Wayne’s musical version of the War Physical : . Of The Worlds (double CD ) Problem Solving: Social and Cooperative;. Parachute Communication:

Videos : Clips from any number of Sci Fi Movies e.g Star Wars, E.T, Independence Day, Men In Black.

Assessment Criteria:

: Can initiate and plan dance ideas after listening to a piece of music. DI (Level 2) Demonstrates skill in movement when performing a movement sequence. PK Selects and uses elements of dance creatively to express an idea DI Can evaluate own performance and that of others. CI

4: Working above required level. 3: Working at required level 2: Usually working at required level. 1: Requires assistance to meet AO’s Lesson Sequence Phase Procedure Teaching Points Introductory Listen to “The Eve Of The War” Track 1 Listening “War Of The Worlds” and Writing Paint a picture / draw images that come to mind as a response to the music Activity Discuss the images chosen – How did they develop from a response to the music. Fill in Worksheet One. Assessment One

Part One Warm up. Students stand around parachute There are numerous other Move parachute up and down. warm up activities that can Number off. be carried out using a On their number students run under the parachute. parachute changing places. Remaining students need to hold it up. Throw up and trap air under it. Explore ways of moving round in a circle carrying the parachute. Teaching Sequence Introduce the spaceship idea. Investigate ways of moving the parachute so that it looks like a space ship. (Whole class Allow for plenty of time for Activity ) students to work through the Make decisions on movement choices. problem solving required Practice as a class. here. Video class attempt –and discuss results.

Closure Finalise structure of this first part of the dance.

Part Two Listening Listen to music Track 2 Horsnell Common; and Writing Worksheet 2 Examples wobble, vibrate, Share Alien pictures lurch, Brainstorm action words for ways in which aliens might move.

Warm Up Students in own spaces in the room. Call out an action word from Alien list. You could also have the Students carry out that activity. words on cards on floor and Repeat the movement but add an element e.g children move from one to do it slowly, with a different body base, on another another level, Repeat with more words and elements.

Task: Lesson Students individually chose words and Sequence. make an alien movement sequence by combining the words. (3-4 words only) They can refer to their picture and the brainstorming list to help them.. Their movement sequence must move from one area of the room to another in an Encourage use of other interesting pathway. And use more than one dance elements as well. level.

Closure View and respond to others choreography Assessment Two Each individual shows their movements to some one else. Students offer each other suggestions for improvements.

Warm-Up When individuals have their own sequence, If they don’t find some discuss how some of the aliens drawn by the pictures of some. class have more body parts than humans. Question: how could we show that.?

Task: Students get into pairs and explore ways of combining their bodies into interesting alien shapes including moving shapes. (moving in and out of shapes or moving around in a shape.) View and respond to others choreography Assessment Three

Discuss sequence of events suggested by the music (Beginning/End

Task:To make a whole class dance. Start with words at beginning of CD. Do Parachute part. Use words about when the lid of the spaceship falls off. Improvise this part with the words. Aliens emerge and dance their individual dances all together or some at a time. Hold frozen alien shape when not dancing. Form into pairs and continue with pair dances Work out an ending.e,g move back into spaceship and “take off” Practice the class dance. Video the sequence View and discuss;  Have the required images been Assessment Four communicated through this dance  How can this be improved.

Perform the dance to an audience.

Worksheet (Assessment –recording respons

Children will write evaluation on prepared sheet to stick in Arts book. WORKSHEET ONE

Name: Date:

I think the story told by the music is about…

In this particular part of the story…

The music sounds like…

The images I have drawn in my picture are…

The images that I have drawn which could be portrayed with movement are… Worksheet Two

The space ship has landed. The aliens are about to emerge from their ship.

“But looking, I presently saw something stirring within the shadow: greyish billowy movements one above another, and then two luminous disks like eyes.”

Here are some pictures of aliens as some people have imagined them. Study them closely and listen carefully to the music.

Draw what you think an alien would look like. Unit Evaluation

Tell us about your experience as an alien during this unit. Which parts did you enjoy the most---and the least? What activities were helpful when you were thinking up movement to fit your images? WERE YOU SUCCESSFUL??? You can illustrate your page if you like.