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🏃 7th Grade · PES1.M1Unit 5: Dance & rhythm

Dances from many cultures

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🎯 Objective: Students learn folk and social dances.

Lesson outline

  1. Teach.
  2. Practice.
  3. Perform.
  4. Exit: one dance.

Lesson 1 of 2 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

S1.M1

SHAPE America National PE Standards (grade band 6–8)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Perform and create dance sequences

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

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