air, fire, water, earth

Memorable Strategies: 

This week we did an activity where we danced the elements of the Earth: air, fire, water and Earth. I was in the air group which was a challenge! I liked the way we brainstormed verbs associated with the element before being asked to perform those verbs.


This chart was from this weeks slideshow and is a representation of the big ideas in science, and these topics can easily be fit into dance lessons.
This week we also learned ABA form in order to perform our dance movements. We first did verbs, then moved into learning further information, and then we choreographed our verbs into chains, where we did the moves in sequence.

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Curriculum Expectations/ Theory 
The science curriculum can be implemented using the topics from above. As for this week, our curriculum connection was clearly to Interactions in the Environment.
We also used the creative process to create a sequence of dance moves.

"A1. Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process (see pages 19–22) to the composition of movement sequences and short dance pieces, using the elements of dance to communicate feelings and ideas" (Ontario dance curriculum) 

Reflection 
This week,  I definitely learned more strategies to teach dance. I feel the strategies and presentation today helped me understand ways to integrate further dance learning in all subjects. I like the idea of integrating dance into science because some science concepts are so abstract that seeing a visual would be so, so helpful. We also watched a Ted Talk video clip of a man who danced out peoples educational thesis' when they were defending their masters, and this allowed further understanding from everyone listening/ trying to understand. I loved this video and felt it was a very useful representation of the way dance can influence all other disciplines.

Accommodations/ Modifications 

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This week I was thinking of ways that dance could be used as an accommodation for further understanding when students need it. I definitely think dance can be modified and accommodated to incorporate every learner.
I also found this resource of really great accommodation ideas for ADHD, autism, emotional disturbance, hearing, speech and language impairments, cognitive disabilities, sight impairment or blindness, and physical impairments.

Resources found this week:
http://artsonline2.tki.org.nz/resources/lessons/dance/

https://educationcloset.com/arts-integration-lessons/