30 Dance Lesson Plans with hints and tips to enable successful, creative dance lessons with careful consideration towards physical distancing. The lesson plans in this e-book are largely aimed at primary school aged children but you may well find they are easily applied to many other situations or age groups. They have been devised to allow the participants to engage in creative and expressive activities whilst due consideration has been given to the constraints of physical distancing as a result of the Covid-19 virus. The plans have been written as stand-alone ideas, each is time framed, though they do contain ideas for ‘adding challenge’ to meet the needs of different age groups or to extend the activity past the initial lesson. The plans have different coloured banners, this indicates whether it is a relaxed (red), moderate (orange) or high energy (green) activity as well as a suggestion for suitable music (with links). Written by dance specialists Jo Cone, Louise Jaggard and Claire Pring

A dance class aimed at Key Stage 1. Inspire your class to dance by using dance and song from the popular film ‘The Greatest Showman’. Movement Objectives: Dynamics: Happy - energetic. Sad - heavy, slow Timing: Moving to the beat of the music, dancing to a musical phrase Action: Movement with props Includes warm up relevant to the topic main activities - creative tasks, improvisation and basic choreography in response to stimuli cool down relevant to the topic Listings of all music that can be downloaded or found online Part of a series of lesson plans - more Circus plans are available on our website https://primaryschooldance.co.uk/dance-resources/