Sample Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan Week 4

Concept: Time & Space | Subconcept: Sudden & Sustained

 

Objectives:

Cognitive: Students will be able to identify the difference between sudden and sustained movements when watching others.

Affective: Students will be able to openly express their interests in sudden and sustain through improvisation.

Physical: Students will be able to demonstrate sudden and sustained in each exercise.

Social: Students will be able to problem solve together in working through to brain dance based on sudden and sustained time.

 

Introduction:

• We will start with defining sudden and sustained

• Give images (lighting & and a wave)

• Have them demonstrate sudden movements

• Move into the brain dance with the ideas of sudden/ sustained (how long can you keep growing or sustaining through an x-roll compared to suddenly doing a body half)

 

Exploring the Concept:

• Show a video of lighting striking and wave crashing to give a better images

• Pretend they are lighting going around obstacle course created then the wave crashing

• Reflection with a partner which felt more natural in your body, lighting or wave?

 

Developing Skills:

• Go across the floor sustaining into a fall in different directions (forward, side, back)

• Combo of movements across the floor with a metronome (practice anticipating the 1)

• Given short combo of sustained movements to make sudden and vise versa

 

Creating:

• Have students create a phrase of 8 that contains sudden and sustained movements in them

• They will share in groups of 5 and then perform for each other

• Each group will share what they noticed as they watched their peers perform

 

Cool Down:

• Playing freeze dance with sudden and sustained freezes (moving through the freeze without moving any body parts)

• Constructive rest to end the class