Stone Age Overview
The scheme of work explores ideas of daily life, hunting and cave painting in the Stone Age. Lesson one looks at starting a fire using striking and turning actions to represent the wooden drill and striking flint. Caves and tents as shelters are explored through contact work, and rhythmic elements are explored when making tools. Lesson two uses travelling actions, formations unison and canon to portray the families/tribes going off to hunt. The final lesson looks at cave painting and creating a storyboard to bring to life.
Dance Content
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- Contact work
- Motif creation
- Travel
- Gesture
- Stillness
- Elevation
- Lead and Follow
- Turning
- Dynamics
- Pathways
- Change of direction
- Levels
- Mirroring
- Unison
- Counter tension
- Act and react
- Tableaux/freeze frames
- Increase and decrease in speed of movement
- Sharp/smooth dynamics
- Formations
Curriculum/Topic links
- Geography
- Science
- Literacy
- History
- Art
- Maths
- Design
Embodied
Confident using body and mind together to interact with environment and task.
- Use a variety of ASDR with balance, co-ordination, agility and strength.
- Perform dances with varying movement patterns.
Expressive
Expressing and communicating feelings and ideas through dance.
- Perform dances and make choices to express and communicate a variety of themes and ideas enabling a focused performance.
Creative
Respond to a stimulus, improvise and create.
- Imaginatively explore movement in response to stimuli.
- Create dances with structure using a range of variation and development of ASDR.
Collaborative
Working on their own and with others.
- Enquire and improvise independently, in groups and pairs.
- Independently and collectively creating responses.
- Contribute and receive movement ideas.
Reflective
Observe, reflect & improve.
- Observe and verbalise K&U using a range of dance terms.
- Evaluate, refine and edit their dance ideas.
- Use technology to assist evaluation and reflection.