This is a chance for the teacher to check for student understand about these dance terms. Meet me in the middle can be as simple or as complex as your class can handle. Form two lines on either side of the room, meet a partner in the middle and return to a different place in the line on the other side.
The teacher gives instructions for how you will move when you meet in the middle. Use the elements of dance to bring in vocabulary for the lesson and make it more involved or faster as the game goes on.
You can even instruct students on how to move into the middle by describing the pathways, levels and dynamics that they will use with their locomotor movement. Adding music helps them get even more creative but start by just doing it in silence. Red Light Green Light is a simple, high energy, dance activity for younger students and older ones as well.
The music tells you what to do if you want to keep it simple but if you have older students you might want to use the elements of dance. This is the link to the music. Pass the parcel takes a bit of preparation but is a great way to engage the class particularly at the start of the year. Each layer of the parcel contains movements which they unwrap when the music stops. These movement may be done solo or with a partner. Music that is current and up tempo is best to bring up the energy in the room.
It is good to have the students in a circle or, if this is too confronting, spread them around the room and have the parcel go in curved pathways from one child to the next. You can change between curved and angular pathways to keep them alert and add in some dance vocabulary. It is extremely easy to do and more to the point, the focus is on the students! We start off by writing a word or a phrase on the board. The next step is to have a student co-ordinate his or her colleagues as they walk up to the board.
They can either come up in small groups or individually to write on the board anything related to the word or phrase in question. It gets the students thinking and you can use their own ideas to launch the lesson. An excellent hook! So there you have it! Ten great ways to warm up your students and tickle their imagination.
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Data Manipulation "A picture is worth a thousand words", so with this strategy we ask the students to draw a diagram of what they currently understand about the subject or concept. Pre-Quiz A quiz even if it's ungraded always gets the attention of students. Wordsplash I use this one pretty often as it doubles up as a vocabulary builder. Simulation Some people learn by doing - and that is what simulation is all about.
This warm up targets several different learning styles Guessing Game This is like "Ask the Audience" in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, only if you have some objects you can hold them up and ask what they might be used for, or what the next course of action would be, or even where the items may belong in the process of bead making.
Opinionnaire Much like a pre-quiz, this is an assessment of how students think about a certain subject. Free Association This is when the teacher calls out a word or a phrase and the students can either call out a word or sign the word that first comes to mind. Chalk Talk This is my all time favorite warm up. Scatter the dodgeballs all over the gym. Tell the students that If you get tagged by an Evil Red Ball, then you lie down on your back, spread your legs, and hold your feet as high in the air with the soles facing the ceiling ,as you Angry Cats can only move around on their tiptoes AND fingertips, and can still move around the Equipment: 1 frisbee or giant dice.
Description: Have students pick a partner and face that partner in the middle of the gym. The teacher will stand in the middle of the gym and Enough small balls ping-pong, tennis, foam…etc. Description: people are it, and are given evil red balls. Everyone else has a ping-pong ball or tennis ball.
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