With vibrant video and audio resources, lesson plans and notes, this pack allows non specialist teachers to deliver eleven creative and exciting dance lessons, which boys and girls alike will enjoy.
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Video Previews
Teachers' Comments
Childrens' Comments
Resource Details
Using authentic video clips and music to convey the concepts and rhythms of African Dance, progression is made through using examples of men's and women's chores to inspire creative movement, building up gradually to a 'whole class' dance.
With rich multimedia resources and comprehensive lesson plans, considerable time is saved for busy teachers wishing to put African Dance in the PE curriculum. Children are engaged with realistic, non-stereotypical movement images of a different culture, that are simple enough for them to copy and translate into their own dance motifs, whilst also supporting cross curricular Citizenship objectives.
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Functions of Dance
Men's & Women's chores
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"Your African Dance Pack was used brilliantly in Class 4 by Marilyn. I know the children involved worked with it for a whole half term so enthusiastically. This culminated in a superb dance for the whole school and parents too. They had created their own interpretation of village life. It brought tears to my eyes!! To see some of the less enthusiastic boys in particular really living in the dance and freely moving to the fab music was fabulous". - Neen Jones, Teacher, Inkberrow First School
"The video clips and music allowed me to give the children an effective insight into African dance and the daily chores carried out by Zambians, without having any prior knowledge. They allowed the children individual interpretation whilst following specific success criteria. They are easy to just 'pick up and go'. The resources are a great help!" - Kerry Law, Yr6 Class Teacher, St Nicholas Middle School.
"It's really super...can't wait to use it with my Yr 5/6 class" - Catharine Jessiman, Headteacher, West Coker CE VC Primary School.
Childrens' Comments
"When we did our Zambian dancing as a class P.E. project each child has its own opinions of what the experience had on them. So here are a few descriptions of what they thought."
Stephanie: "Scary but cool and one of the most fantastic feelings I have ever had. Plus my favourite bit was the celebration because of all the moves that the Zambians did!"
Samuel: "I loved rehearsing and practising and it was the best when we did it for real! The costumes were great and my best moment was the celebration part of it!"
Byrony: "It was very fun and it was extremelyenjoyable. I never knew that Zambians did so much work each day!"
Jack: "It was fun because you learned how to do Zambian dancing. My favourite bit was actually doing it for the parents on the big day!"
Olivia: "I really enjoyed it; it was a new experience for me. I finally got the hang of it because Mrs Collins was very helpful and understandable. My favourite part was the celebration because it showed how much the Zambians like dancing!"
Gregor: "I thought it was very good and fun. My funniest bit was when I accidentally lost my pump in front of the audience! But luckily they didn't see!"
Sophie: "It was cool and my favourite bit was the celebration because we learned what the Zambians do to celebrate!"
Amy: "It was quite scary doing it in front of the parents because they kept laughing at me and my dress, even though I thought it was beautiful!"
Alex: "It was weird because of all those people staring at me my favourite was the chores we danced!"
Lewis: "I liked the music best!"
This resource will also prove useful in other curriculum areas and the DVD can be played on either a PC (projector or interactive whiteboard), or on a set top DVD player.
In the simple DVD menus (shown below) lessons are listed on the left (in white) and clicked to show the resources for that lesson on the right (in black), which are in turn clicked to select and 'play' them. See below for details.
Developed by Sian Smith and Rebecca Larner with Class Resource, from original objectives by Julie Leach.
DVD Menu
Included in the Pack
Hard Copy
DVD
1. Lesson Plans
2. DVD Resource Notes
3. Evaluation Tally Grid
4. Glossary
5. DVD User Guide
App 1. A Day in the Life (Laminated)
App 2. Warm up chants (Laminated)
12 video clips showing examples of dance in he towns, villages and schools of Zambia.
14 authentic Zambian music tracks to support warm up, creativity and performance. Played in the Zambian Kalindula style by Zambia's 'best band' Distro Kuomboka.
19 video clips showing examples of men's and women's chores in the towns and villages of Zambia.
Lesson Planning Grid - Overview
Lesson
Key
Objectives
Resources
Medium
1
Functions of Dance - Understand different functions of dance (cultural identity, ritual & method of communication.
8 vibrant video clips of different dances filmed in the towns and villages of Zambia.
DVD
2 & 3
Women's Chores - Use women's chores to develop a motif to demonstrate increasing accuracy and control in the use of dynamics.
8 video clips of women's chores in Zambia.
DVD
4 & 5
Men's Chores - Use men's chores to develop a motif to demonstrate increasing accuracy and control in the use of dynamics.
11 video clips of men's chores in Zambia.
DVD
6 & 7
Celebration - Show increasing independence in the composition process (motif, phrase, section and structure).
2 further video clips showing examples of Zambian celebration.
DVD
8 & 9
A Day in the Life - Show increasing independence in the manipulation of dance material.
A Day in the Life -Zambian village story .
2 video clips showing the use of facial expression.
Laminated hard
copy
DVD
10
Performance - Rehearse, polish and perform a class dance.
