Pe Central: Dance Lesson Ideas: Space Jam Dilemma: Dance

After inventing their own dance moves, students are to teach them to classmates. These lesson plans provide tips for encouraging creativity and getting all students involved in teaching and learning dance moves.

At this website, learn the steps to a simple line dance for elementary-age children. This dance can be part of a gym-class lesson and activity.

Learn and teach a simple line dance created for the Bee Gees' song, "Stayin' Alive." Recommended for elementary students, the dance steps provided here could easily be simplified (or made more difficult) for students of different ages...

This website describes a simple line dance for the simple holiday song, "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." Also provides an option for simplifying the dance.

Student familiar with simple dance steps will enjoy this line dance activity, which helps students practice moving to music, following a leader's steps, and creating their own moves.

At this website, find steps to two different popular disco dances. Learn and teach the step for "Stayin' Alive," and "Cotten-eyed Joe." Includes variations.

The physical activity described at this website combines cardiovascular fitness exercises (frisbee, push-ups, jumping jacks) and academic subjects math and science.

What is Tinikling? How is this word pronounced? Is it really a dance? Where did it originate? Is there a story about the origin of this dance? Begin this dance lesson by answering these questions. Then use the video to teach the three...

Take a good, square look at this introductory square dancing lesson. Each square dance move has what is termed a "call." Teach some beginning calls to your young dancers. They can be scattered around so that their focus is on learning...

Do the "Space Jam" Dance! A dance that is made up of basketball skills movements, such as: dribbling, defending with hands up, pivoting, shooting, and slam dunks. The dance step descriptions are very well written out with cues for...