Middle & High Grades 6-12: A Social Dance Unit for Schools

Dance provides the opportunity to develop social and motor skills in a non-competitive, non-sport context. This Unit outlines a course of lessons designed to promote:

• Basic and advanced motor skills
• Cognitive and spatial awareness skills (i.e. remembering routines and patterns, putting them to music, working with other people - keeping in your own space, or knowing how to use space)
• Social and team working skills when working with a partner or larger groups
• An introduction to understanding...