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Dinosaur dig

Learning objects Dinosaur dig

TLF ID M025751

Students learn about the world of dinosaurs through creative arts. They explore elements of dance to develop coordination skills through movement and actions, as well as music and drama to create characters. They also create a dinosaur themed artwork.

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Educational value
  • This resource addresses the NSW Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus outcomes: Dance DAES1.1 - Participates in dance activities and demonstrates an awareness of body parts, control over movement and expressive qualities. DAES1.2 - Explores movement in response to a stimulus to express ideas, feelings or moods. DAS1.1 - Performs dances demonstrating expressive qualities and control over a range of locomotor and non-locomotor movement. DAS1.2 - Explores and selects movement using the elements of dance to make dance express ideas, feelings or moods. Drama DRAES1.1 - Uses imagination and the elements of drama in imaginative play and dramatic situations. DRAS1.2 - Conveys story, depicts events and expresses feelings by using the elements of drama and the expressive skills of movement and voice. Explores, creates, selects and organises sound in simple structures. Visual Arts VAES1.1 - Makes simple pictures and other kinds of artworks about things and experiences. VAS1.1 - Makes artworks in a particular way about experiences of real and imaginary things. Music MUES1.1 -Participates in simple speech, singing, playing and moving activities, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts. MUS1.2 - Explores, creates, selects and organises sound in simple structures.
Year level

F; 1; 2

Topics Handicrafts Balancing (Motor coordination) Musical instruments Drama (Arts) Role-playing Performance space Listening Art genres Composition (Visual arts) Arts Visual arts Art materials Dance Music Human movement Movement sequences Imagination Drama (Literature) Music performance Dinosaurs Playbuilding Play (Recreation) Make believe Facial expressions Symbols Non-locomotor movement Eye contact Improvisation (Music) Ear training Locomotor skills Fundamental movement skills Imagined situations
Learning area
  • The Arts
  • Dance
  • Drama
  • Music
  • Visual Arts

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  • Author
  • Name: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Organization: State of NSW, Department of Education
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  • Contributor
  • Name: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Organization: State of NSW, Department of Education
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  • Name: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Organization: State of NSW, Department of Education
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  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
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  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Publisher
  • Name: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Organization: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Description: Publisher
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  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Interactive
Rights
  • © State of New South Wales, Department of Education.