Line Dance Fever

By Michele Richardson

Objectives:

• Create learning environments, using relevant technologies and assessment strategies, that promote interest and foster persistence in a variety of physical activities (e.g., games, gymnastics, dance, aquatics, etc.) to encourage students to become competent members of these movement cultures beyond the school setting.
• Students will perform selected folk, country, square, line, creative, and/or aerobic dances.
• Students will perform basic folk dance steps such as grapevine, schottische, and step-together-step.
• Students will perform basic folk dance steps to a variety of music.

7-7:20

Warm up: Chicken Dance and combination of line dance movements.

7:20-8

Electric slide to Ciara’s 1-2 step, Cameo’s Word Up and Boot Scootin’ Boogie.

Step-together-step to the right and then to the left 8 count

Step-together-step to the back

Step forward, step back

Step quarter turn swing leg to the left (counter clockwise)

Repeat facing different wall.

8-9

Cha-Cha Slide

Step-together step to the right then left 8 count

Step-together step to the back 4 count

HOPS

Right foot stomp twice

Left foot stop twice

Turn it out: step-together step with quarter turn

Repeat facing different wall

9-9:30

30-45 minutes: Free dance time. Students will have the opportunity to dance freely to a variety of music genres.

Hip-Hop cool down