Unit Plan

 Unit Topic: expressing emotion through movement

1. We can have the children make a movement that represents a certain emotion we tell them. 

2. Each day of the week can be dedicated to a different emotion: happy, sad, angry, excited, suprised, nervous. 

3. The students will have to create a dance in groups that conveys an emotion they choose, and the rest of the class would have to guess what emotion they are trying to portray. 

The easiest skill would be how to express emotion through facial expressions, and expressing through their body movement would be harder. It also might be easier to convey happiness than suprised for example. We can start with teaching basic emotions and move into more complex emotions. 

We can incorporate dance by teaching a sad ballet dance or watching a video of an angry hip hop dance. 

We are teaching young children how to show their emotions in dance. 

They will learn how to associate their feelings through movement. 

We will asess by having the other students guess what emtions they are portraying in their performance. The accuracy would show how much they've learned. 

Classroom information: dance studio

Subject Area: dance arts

Grade level: Kindergarten

Unit Summary: They will learn how to associate their feelings through movement. 

Building the Foundation: This will be their first introduction to dance since they are so young, so we are really starting assuming they know nothing. 

 Performs a range of simple, repeated, intentional movements and gestures.
 Uses space and resources creatively.
 Chooses and explores ways of moving rhythmically, expressively and playfully.
 Participates in dance that is taught and/or creative movement invented by peers.
 Shows understanding that dance consists of combined movements and gestures,
usually performed with music or a beat.
 Shares their responses to stimuli through movement with, for example,
peers or practitioner.
 Shares thoughts and feelings in response to dance experiences, either as
a performer or as part of an audience, giving reasons for likes and dislikes.
 Shares views and listens appropriately to the views of others on their own
or others’ work.

Learning Objectives: Understand how other people show emotions through dance and being able to identify the feelings they are attempting to convey. 

Assessment: How well they can identify other's emotions and how well others can identify their's. 

The project prompt would be: create a dance in groups of 3 or 4 that portrays a certain feeling. 

Approximate time: 2 class days. 

Review: Everyone say something they noticed about each performance. 

Materials: portable speakers so each group can play their own music. 

Accommodation: multiple teachers would be available in 1 class to help any students stuggling.