AC9ADA6D01 Year 5 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 The Arts provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

develop and practise technical and expressive skills using safe dance practice and the elements of dance

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 developing technical and expressive skills to refine their execution of fundamental movements such as galloping, jumping, sliding, rolling, slithering, spinning, shrinking, exploding or collapsing
• 3 developing expressive skills of focus, clarity of the movement, confidence and facial expression/character
• 4 exploring an element of dance; for example, experimenting with shapes and considering ideas such as positive and negative space or use of contrasting dynamics

Related Achievement Standards