AC9ADA6D01
Years 5 to 6
The Arts
AC9ADA6D01 | Years 5 to 6 Dance: Dance
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor develop and practise technical and expressive skills using safe dance practice and the elements of dance
Strand
Developing practices and skills
Substrand
Dance
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 5 to 6 Dance. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration improvising new movement to communicate ideas in response to stimulus; for example, exploring how they can use different body parts, zones, bases and elements of dance to communicate/represent ideas about overcrowded cities; for example, groups of dancers in close proximity to each other
- • Elaboration developing technical and expressive skills to refine their execution of fundamental movements such as galloping, jumping, sliding, rolling, slithering, spinning, shrinking, exploding or collapsing
- • Elaboration developing expressive skills of focus, clarity of the movement, confidence and facial expression/character
- • Elaboration exploring an element of dance; for example, experimenting with shapes and considering ideas such as positive and negative space or use of contrasting dynamics
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- Students use the elements of dance and/or choreographic devices to choreograph dances that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.See it on the standard page →
- They demonstrate safe dance practice and use of technical, and expressive skills.See it on the standard page →
- Students use subject-specific knowledge, elements, concepts, conventions, materials, skills and/or processes to create arts works that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.See it on the standard page →
- They demonstrate safe practices.See it on the standard page →
Read the full Years 5 to 6 Dance achievement standard
Read the full Years 5 to 6 Arts (all subjects) achievement standard