Planning and Assessing

Dance

• Interactive Unit Planner
  An online facility which provides a template, along with teaching and resource support, as you plan units of learning.

• National Dance Exemplars
  Curriculum levels 1 - 5.

• Dance on TKI
  Dance materials for primary and secondary teachers, including Unwrapping the Arts learning examples

• Classroom Materials
  Online lesson materials and templates for primary, intermediate and secondary teaching.

• Teacher Resource Exchange
  A wide range of downloadable New Zealand teachers' units and lessons for all levels.

• Units and Lessons
  Units and lessons approved by the Ministry of Education.

• Dancing the Key Competencies
  This versatile dance resource for levels 1-5 of the New Zealand Curriculum (2007), contains ten units of work, each addressing a key competency.

• Dancing Treasures
  This resource contains five innovative dance units that use selected iconic digital resources. All units support the implementation of the vision, values, principles, key competencies and achievement objectives for levels 4 and 5 of the New Zealand Curriculum, 2007.

• Dancing Towards Respect
  The aim of this resource (written by Julie Cadzow) is to develop, through the art of dance, the ability of students to show respect for themselves, for others and for human rights. The resource is in three parts which are focussed on Levels 6-8 of the New Zealand Curriculum. NCEA Achievement Standards are included in each part and suggestions are given for opportunities for further assessment.

• Dance Across the Curriculum
  These 3 dance units, written and taught by Julie Cadzow, are specifically designed for the 2007 curriculum level 1, years 2 - 3 students. They each support learning in another curriculum area. The first lessons, Pairs and Prepositions, support literacy and English; the second, The Caterpillar's Day, science; and the third, Moving Maths teaches Mathematics concepts through movement. Video clips of face-to-face and distance learning sessions support the teaching materials. Further video clips of these lessons, taught by video conference, can be viewed in the Student Gallery.

• Looking Ahead for Our Native Animals
  These new curriculum (2007) level 3 units, written by Maria Winder and Julie Cadzow, use Digistore resources and focus on the sustainability of threatened native animals in New Zealand. The units enable students to express their knowledge, ideas and feelings towards the endangerment, extinction, or future survival of New Zealand animals through music and/or dance practices and knowledge bases.

• Moving Landscapes
  In this level 2 unit, written by Julie Cadzow, students become part of the scenery for three innovative New Zealand landscapes. Through a variety of learning experiences, the students learn about five New Zealand landscape art works, create dances about the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and their changing local landscape, and consider the concept of citizenship.
  NB: To access the digital content on Digistore you are required to login as a registered user.

• The Sounds of the Sea
  In this level 1 unit, written by Julie Cadzow, students are taken on a learning journey through the world of a trumpet shellfish. They consider their strengths, some goals for future learning and some ways to help overcome fear when learning new skills. They use new skills to become a choir, seaweed, sunken ships and trumpet shellfish as they create an underwater sound and movement performance. NB: To access the digital content on Digistore you are required to login as a registered user.