---
title: "Year 2 Dance - Free SOW Unit"
url: https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/units/year-2-dance-unit-1-141/
description: "Learning outcomes - Apply facial expressions to music showing emotions such as fear and anger. Begin to use spatial and dynamic choices in work. Offer feedback and respond to feedback"
---

# Year 2 Dance Unit 1 

Apply facial expressions to music showing emotions such as fear and anger. Begin to use spatial and dynamic choices in work. Offer feedback and respond to feedback

## Knowledge Organiser

### Prior Learning

Built simple movement patterns from given actions. Composed and linked actions to make simple movement phrases.

### Unit Focus

Apply facial expressions to music showing emotions such as fear and anger. Begin to use spatial and dynamic choices in work. Offer feedback and respond to feedback.

### We are Learning...

1. How to move like Penguin Small
2. How to move like a polar bear
3. How to move like a snowman
4. How to move like the sea using canon
5. How to make an ending to a dance
6. How to perform a class dance with beginning, middle and end

### Key Questions

1. What is the main mood/feeling you get from this dance?
2. What does it mean to perform in a duet?
3. How does different music change how I move?

### Equipment

Music player, music, cones, hoops, throw down spots, scarves/ribbons, laptop with internet access.

### Vocabulary

Solo, duet, mood, feeling, penguin, musicality, respond, sea, gentle, stormy, floating, spinning, unison, canon, friendship, abandonment.

### Concepts

* Solo is an individual dancing alone, apart from others, with independent movements.
* A duet is two people dancing together with compilatory and contrasting actions.

### Assessment Overview

**Head** – Show confidence to perform in front of others.

**Hand** – Plan a dance with a beginning, middle and end

**Heart** – Attempt to work as part of a group to perform a dance.

### Diagram

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## Lesson Overview

#### Year 2 Dance Unit 1 Lesson 2

1. Accurately use basic actions to move as a polar bear
2. Demonstrate a polar bear phrase responding to the music and using mean and angry facial expressions
3. Tell a partner if they used mean/angry expressions and if they remembered the polar bear phrase accurately

**We are Learning:** How to move like a polar bear

**Activity:** Polar Bear phrase

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#### Year 2 Dance Unit 1 Lesson 1

1. Can demonstrate co-ordination and accuracy in their movements
2. Can apply facial expression and respond to the music
3. Can offer feedback and make some changes to their work in response to suggestions

**We are Learning:** How to move like Penguin Small

**Activity:** Perform to a Partner

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#### Year 2 Dance Unit 1 Lesson 3

1. Can apply positional language to their dance
2. Can perform in a duet
3. Can contribute some ideas to others and respond to their suggestions

**We are Learning:** How to move like a snowman

**Activity:** Snowman Penguin Duet

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#### Year 2 Dance Unit 1 Lesson 4

1. Can apply spatial and dynamic choices to communicate their dance idea and apply unison and canon
2. Can offer feedback and make some changes to their work in response to suggestions

**We are Learning:** How to move like the sea using canon.

**Activity:** Duet Choreography

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#### Year 2 Dance Unit 1 Lesson 5

1. Can explain that a dance has a beginning, middle and end
2. Can give feedback to another pair about their duet
3. Can create an ending to their dance phrase

**We are Learning:** How to make an ending to a dance

**Activity:** Building a complete dance

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#### Year 2 Dance Unit 1 Lesson 6

1. Can perform the penguin small entire dance accurately and with coordination
2. Can apply facial expression and respond to the music
3. Can give personal feedback about the dance

**We are Learning:** How to perform a class dance with beginning, middle and end

**Activity:** Performance as a class

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## Unit Resources & Videos

- [Penguin Small Synopsis](https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/resources/penguin-small-synopsis-1723/) — Dance · Year 2 · Lesson printable
- [Polar Bears Dance Phrase](https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/resources/polar-bears-dance-phrase-1849/) — Dance
- [Polar Bears Accessible Actions](https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/resources/polar-bears-accessible-actions-1848/) — Dance
- [Wild Beast](https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/resources/wild-beast-1720/) — Music
- [Polar Bear Image](https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/resources/polar-bear-image-1722/) — Dance · Year 2