Stage 1 Creative Arts – Dance & Music Unit (Lessons 6–16) NEW SYLLABUS

Stage 1 Creative Arts – Dance & Music Unit (Lessons 6–16) NEW NSW Curriculum Aligned

Looking for low-prep, engaging Creative Arts lessons that actually fit into your timetable?

This Stage 1 Dance and Music unit has been designed to explicitly teach students how movement and sound can communicate ideas through cultural contexts, storytelling, and performance.

Across 11 sequenced lessons, students move from exploring the elements of dance and music to composing, refinin,g and performing their own dance sequences and sound stories.

Students will explore:

✔ Cultural dance through South African gumboot dance

✔ Pitch, timbre, and song structure

✔ Movement using space and time (level, direction, and pathway)

✔ Musical storytelling through soundscapes

✔ Body percussion and classroom instruments

✔ Composing simple dance sequences

✔ Organising sounds into a simple structure

✔ Rehearsing and refining performance work

Lessons are explicitly structured and scaffolded, allowing students to confidently move from exploration to composition and performance.

Assessment Opportunities Included

Assessment is embedded throughout the unit using:

• Dance observation checklist
• Performance tasks
• Student discussion using Creative Arts vocabulary
• Composition of dance sequences
• Creation and performance of sound stories

No worksheets required – learning is hands-on, collaborative and performance-based.

Perfect for:

✔ Busy teachers

✔ Beginning Creative Arts teachers

✔ Casual teachers

✔ Performance-based assessment evidence