KS2 · Physical education · Year 6
Actions: Newton's Cradle
Dance: the power of unity
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Your learning goal
I can create and perform actions in response to another person’s actions.
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Actions: Newton's Cradle: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
What you’ll learn
I can create and perform actions in response to another person’s actions.
Key learning points
- Move: performing actions in response to another person’s actions requires control, balance and accurate timings.
- Think: exploring different ways of responding to an idea demonstrates problem solving.
- Feel: making contact with another performer requires all performers to act responsibly.
- Connect: delivering a high quality dance performance in groups requires collaboration.
Words to know
- Newton’s Cradle
- swinging balls that demonstrate Newton’s laws of energy conservation and momentum
- reaction
- to respond or answer
- swing
- to move in a curved line
Common mistakes
Pupils think that when replicating Newtons Cradle, when we make contact with others, we have to bump or push them away.
The actions don’t have to be bumps or pushes when making contact with a partner, but instead could be any action such as a lean, a step, a jump etc.
For parents, carers and teachers
- It may help to show the pupils a video of Newton's Cradle so they can picture how to create actions to bring this to life.