AC9ADA4D01 Years 3 to 4 The Arts

Content descriptor experiment with and practise skills for moving safely and expressively using fundamental movement skills and the elements of dance

Elaborations

• • Elaboration exploring known movements to find alternative ways of performing them; for example, waving hello or shaking hands and then doing the same action/s at different levels, in different directions, bigger/smaller or using a different body part, zone or base
• • Elaboration using contrast and repetition (choreographic devices) to explore and generate new movement in response to stimuli such as stories, memories or the environment
• • Elaboration exploring how the elements of dance can be used to communicate ideas, such as exploring how cultural stories can be shared through dance; for example, using the elements of dance to develop locomotor and non-locomotor movements to represent different aspects of a story (how a character walks, their emotions or the mood of a place in the story)
• • Elaboration developing the habit of always using safe dance practice; for example, warming up their bodies before executing more complex movement patterns in dance sequences and cooling/calming down afterwards, removing socks if the floor surface is slippery
• • Elaboration developing body awareness and refining technical skills of body control, accuracy, alignment, strength, balance and coordination in fundamental movements; for example, in response to teacher feedback