1. Class Newsletter 3/20/12
Physical Education: Group Dance
Previously students will learn all different types of dances. For example, line
(macerena, cotton eye joe, electric slide) Folk (Tarentella, Virginia Reel)
and Popular (cupid shuffle and cha cha slide). In this lesson, students will
create a dance within their own groups using different moves they have
learned through the different types of dances. Criteria= at least four eight
counts and all members must participate.
Unit Questions:
What is Dance? Summary
Why is Dance important? Dance is an important part of communication through children. It is a way for
them to express their feelings through movements and body language. Also,
it improves balance, flexibility, coordination, rhythm, and timing. Dance
Essential Questions: can be used to gather family and friends for pure enjoyment and fun.
Children should not live without dance; just as we should not live without
What can dance change in the stories, music, and visual arts.
world?
How can you inspire people to Contents
dance? Title of unit 1 Role of Teacher 2
Unit/Essential/Content questions 1 Role of Student 2
Summary 1 Role of Parent 2
Content Questions: Contents 1 Standard 3
What is an eight count? Benefits 3 Contact and Objectives 3
How does dance help flexibility Project Base Learning 3
and coordination?

2. Role of Teacher
The role of the teacher will be to monitor
the group’s progress and guide students
with their dances. Also, I will have a
Role of Student
calendar given to the students with due Students will take on certain roles such as coach, warm up
dates. I will randomly assess each student leader, uniform designer. Also, the students will be
throughout the dance unit. I will give required to judge another team’s dance on performance
feedback to the students in order to assure
the student’s reach their full potential day. This will allow the students to see the judging part of
during the project. the competition. The students also are responsible for
performing the completed dance on the due date
provided on the calendar.
Role of Parent
The role of the parent is to review the
calendar for due dates. I am also
available anytime of the day to
make arrangements to meet with
any parent with concerns or
questions. Parents, please help me
in ensuring your child is ready to
present their dance at the precise
due date. Remember, this is a huge
part of their grade.

3. Benefits of the Lesson
As stated, children will learn how to express Standards
emotions through movement and body language. Engage in developmentally appropriate
This will give the student’s a chance to show practices for fitness and motor skill
emotion through something other than words. development.
Also, it will help with student’s
flexibility, coordination, timing, and self-discipline. Demonstrate rhythms that
It allows the students to use guided discovery to combine traveling, balancing,
create the unique dance. This will help the students and weight transfer into smooth
begin critical thinking skills in order to work sequences with intentional
together as a team and create a full dance.
changes in direction, speed, and
flow.
Describe positive interactions of
Project Base Learning group members in numerous
PBL is an instructional approach built on hands activity settings.
on activities that engages students interest and
motivation. It allows students to use critical
thinking skills in order to come up with certain
answers. It not only teaches certain content or
curriculum it also teaches part of the “hidden
curriculum”. Such as motivation, timing, and self-
discipline. It allows the students to have success,
while independently physically doing the activity.
This is how I will use PBL in my classroom. This
will in fact, permit my students to not only see
the lesson but physically be able to perform the
activity as well.

4. Contact Information
Objectives
•Students will be able to perform movements at
different speeds (fast, slow, fluid) Faucett-Vestavia Elementary
•Students will learn leadership, as well as different
roles such as warm-up leader
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•Students will know different dances such as folk,
line and popular.
•Students will know how to incorporate an eight
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count into a dance
•Students will work on flexibility, coordination, and
balance while working on their group dance
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“To learn to dance by
practice dancing, or
to learn to live by
practice living, all
principles are the
same.”
-Martha Graham