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1. Years 9-10
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4. Warm-up
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Additional Information

View the Recording Templates for this Activity (Microsoft Word, 40 KB)

Guidelines for marking

The following guidelines for marking show one approach to assigning a value to a student's work. Other approaches may be used that better suit the reporting process of the school. Categories, marks, grades, visual representations or individual comments/notations may all be useful.

Range	A student in this range:
High	devises an appropriate warm-up sequence of movements which demonstrates safe dance practice and appropriate dance technique demonstrates and clearly identifies relevant safe dance practice when leading the class discusses the purpose of the warm-up sequence of movements, using appropriate dance terminology
Satisfactory	devises a warm-up sequence of movements which demonstrates safe dance practice and appropriate dance technique demonstrates and identifies aspects of safe dance practice when leading the class describes the purpose of the warm-up sequence of movements, using dance terminology
Progressing	with guidance, devises a warm-up sequence of movements which demonstrates aspects of safe dance practice and appropriate dance technique with guidance, demonstrates and makes references to aspects of safe dance practice when leading the class with guidance, describes the purpose of the warm-up sequence of movements, using some dance terminology.

Feedback

The teacher provides oral feedback during the warm-up Activity as appropriate. On completion of the Activity, the teacher engages the student in oral discussion and self-reflection specific to the criteria for assessing learning. Written feedback is also provided as annotations in the students' journals. Comments inform students about such things as:

• their application of safe dance practice
• the appropriateness of their warm-up sequence of movements in terms of its purpose and how it fits in the progression of the warm-up
• their demonstration of relevant safe dance practice when leading the class
• their use of appropriate dance terminology as they discuss their warm-up sequence of movements.

Future directions

At the completion of this Activity, students will document the process in their journals. From this Activity students will gain a greater understanding of the importance of warming up the body before physical Activity. This knowledge will assist students in future activities as they identify and perform warm-up sequences specific to selected dance styles. Students will apply knowledge gained in this unit as they prepare their bodies for a variety of movement opportunities and as they continue to develop their dance skills in subsequent units.