Dance in Physical Education

1. Dance in Physical Education Nicolina Veneziano Middle and High School Teachers

2. What is Dance? • An art form that generally refers to movement of the body used as a form of expression, social interaction, or spiritually

3. Why is Dance important? • Teaches students how to interact socially with a partner or a group • Teaches students how to memorize patterns and sequences • Teaches students to interrupt movement and how to put their own style into it. • Can incorporate other aspects of schooling within the dance

4. Types of Dances • The Hokey Pokey (The Hokey Pokey with shapes) • The Cha Cha Slide • The YMCA (Fitness YMCA) • Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

5. The Hokey Pokey • Social dance • Teaches students body parts • Fun • Instructional song • Younger kids

6. Teaching The Hokey Pokey • Can have one large group or a bunch of little groups • Does anyone know the dance and can demonstrate it? • Can students lead the dance? • Important to be energetic and have fun!

7. The Hokey Pokey • Listen and follow along to the lyrics • Put body part in • Take body part out • Put body part in • Shake it all about • Turn in a circle • Repeat with all body parts Elmo Hokey Pokey

8. The Cha Cha Slide • Social Dance • Fun • Instructional song • Middle and High School students

9. Teaching theCha Cha Slide • One large group • Ask what moves are in the dance • Demonstrate the moves before performing the dance • Can someone lead the class • Be enthusiastic!

10. Cha Cha Slide • Clap hands • To the left and right • Walk backwards • Hop • Stomp left and right foot • Cha cha • Turn • Repeat as said on the song • Slide to left and right • Criss-cross • Hands on your knee • How low can you go • Reverse • Charlie brown • Listen and follow along to the lyrics • Steps of the Cha Cha Slide Cha Cha Slide

11. The YMCA • Social Dance • Free to dance how you feel then spell out YMCA • Fun • All ages

12. Teaching The YMCA • Does anyone know it? • Demonstrate how to spell it • Can someone lead the class • One large group or a bunch of small groups

13. The YMCA • When the song spells out YMCA you do the following: • Raise both arms over head to form a Y • Bend both arms inward over head to form a M • Swing both arms overhead to the left to form a C • Bring both arms to a point over head to form an A • Dance however you want for the rest of the song Yankees Ground Crew doing the YMCA

14. Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes • Social dance • Instructional song • Teaches body parts • Memorization • Younger kids

15. TeachingHead, Shoulders, Knees and Toes • Kids can spread out where ever they want • Does everyone know all their body parts? • Make sure little kids know which body parts are which • Be enthusiastic!!

16. Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes • Very simple dance to follow along to • Point to each body part as the song goes along • Follow what is being said by the music Wiggles Head Shoulders Knees and Toes

17. Challenges • Most dance can have a variation on it • Use a variation to challenge the students • Can make them think more or do more physically • Can make a dance more fun

18. Hokey Pokey Variation • Can use shapes • Instead of using body parts, put shapes into the circle • Helps teach kids their shapes • Can use different Language • Say body parts in all different languages • Incorporate what their learning in world language classes

19. YMCA Variation • Incorporate fitness into a fun song • Go over what fitness moves can be done • Students demonstrate the moves • Have students call out what moves to do in between the YMCA’s • A more fun way to get kids warmed up before physical education class

20. Head, Shoulders, Kneesand Toes Variation • Challenge by making students perform in different positions • Lay on the floor and find all the body parts • Get in a weird position then find body parts • Makes students aware of their own body