Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Dance Around the World Name: Taylor Wilson

Content Area: Physical Education Grade Level: 7th Grade

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
•7th grade CS 1.2: Perform multicultural dances.

•7th grade CS 2.2: Analyze movement patterns and correct errors.

•7th grade CS 5.1: Identify appropriate and inappropriate risks involved in adventure, individual, and dual physical activities.
Big Ideas/Unit Goals:

 This dance unit is important because it is a fun and DIFFERENT way to incorporate physical activity into our daily lives. Dancing is no longer considered to
be just an “art form.” Rather, dance involves a lot of physical strength, endurance, agility, flexibility, and coordination! Dance combines body movement,
rhythm, locomotor and non-locomotor movements, spacial awareness, and personal expression.
 Dance is a fantastic and FUN way to get students physically fit and expose them to multiple different cultures and backgrounds.
 Dance also prepares students for social contexts they will be exposed to in everyday life and is a different way to get students to think about moving and
gain awareness about the world around them.
Unit Summary:

This dance unit is for Physical Education students at the secondary level, specifically 7th grade!
 This “Dance Around the World” unit is for students to gain an appreciation for the world and cultures around them. It will get
them prepared to be physically active in the form of dance. In this unit, students will gain knowledge and appreciation for
physical movement forms from around the world.
 This unit will allow students to think on a deeper level, effectively communicate with their peers, exercise creativity, and gain a
better appreciation and understanding for cultures and backgrounds other than their own!
 The goal of this multicultural dance unit is for students to become more comfortable with the idea of dance when they realize
that dance is a social activity that will help them with a general lifelong skill. Whether it be at weddings, corporate events,
socials, or something of that sort, students will be exposed to dance. It is important they learn the social properties of dance and
gain an appreciation for the activity early on in life instead of fearing it.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: Formative: Summative:
Students will be asked what they know about Students will be assigned a KWL Chart a quarter Students will perform choreography of a chose
Multicultural Dance and how it provides for a of the way through the unit where they can multicultural dance to their peers.
multicultural focused education. Students will express previous and current known knowledge In addition to this, students will also write a 2-3-
complete a survey to gauge the amount of and jot down what they still want to learn. About page paper about how multicultural dance is
previous knowledge they have on multicultural halfway through the unit students will create present in their culture or family.
dances and why they are important. flashcards regarding information up to this point
in the unit. From here, students will take a quiz
covering information for the whole first half of the
unit.
After the quiz, students will complete anticipation
guides on the second half of the unit
incorporating previous knowledge they have
gained from the first half of the unit.
Lesson 1 (Teacher Lecture)
Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence Lesson Activities:
Students will be able to (Assessments): Teacher Lecture through Prezi slides. While viewing the Prezi, students will take notes, identify different
explain the importance of Reliable resources and multicultural dance styles, concepts, key terms, etc. Students will understand how dance in this form contributes
understanding and responses to a multicultural education
appreciating cultural
differences in terms of dance.
Lesson 2 (Webercise/ iPad Lesson)
Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
Students will be able to Reliable resources and Students will be given a web-based worksheet where they will learn how to navigate through a website to look
provide a general background responses found on website for key information to fill in the blanks of their worksheet. Students will also have to justify at least one answer
and history of where provided with personal experience or opinion.
different multicultural dances
came from, why it is
important, and how it is used
in day to day life in that
culture.
Lesson 3 (Graphic Organizer)
Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
Students will be able to Reliable resources and Students will use knowledge they have learned thus far in class and personal experience knowledge to complete
provide a general background responses and self-evidence a KWL (Know-Want to know-What I learned) Chart. In this chart, students will choose a style of multicultural
and history of where based on personal experience dance and provide what they know about it, what they want to know about it, and what they have learned about
different multicultural dances it.
came from, why it is
important, and how it is used
in day to day life in that
culture.
Unit Resources:
https://www.ccdr.org/
https://www.centralhome.com/hip-hop-dance-history.htm
https://dance.lovetoknow.com/History_of_Latin_Dance
http://huladancehq.com/hula-dancing-history.html
https://dance.lovetoknow.com/History_of_African_Dance
http://www.chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/nritya/bollywood.html
https://irishbliss.wordpress.com/irish-dance-history/
http://www.stjo.org/site/PageServer?pagename=culture_powwow_styles

Useful Websites:
http://www.danceadvantage.net/why-dance-matters-survival-of-the-fittest/
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers/caleb/multicultural.html
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Dance-Routine
http://artsalive.ca/en/dan/
https://www.cityoffullerton.com/gov/departments/parks_n_recreation/sports/dance.asp