NC Subject: PE

Topic: DANCE - SPACE

Weeks

Yrs: 3 + 4
Weeks: 5

Activity

General aims:

Resources

to participate enthusiastically in a dance /

movement situation.
Learning Objectives

1 : FREE
Use piece of music - children to move to it as they
MOVEMENTwish. Encourage exploration of different shapes,
SESSION heights, etc.

- to move imaginatively to a piece of

music.

2 : SPACE
SHIP

Small groups - children move together to make

parts of a space craft. Move in circle to 'take off'.
Demonstrate to rest of class.

- to work co-operatively in a small group.

3 : ALIENS

Aliens have landed - what are their feelings? How

do they react? Move with and without music.

- to express feelings of excitement,

curiosity, etc, through movement.

4 : HUMAN Explore feelings of humans on invasion REACTION fear, panic, etc. With and without music.

5 : CREATE Sequence of i) Space craft forming and landing.

SEQUENCE
ii) Aliens exploring.
iii) Aliens dying.

- to express feelings of fear, panic, etc.

through movement.

- to devise a short sequence of

movements to 'tell a story'.