Grade 5 Lesson Idea
In grade 5, students in Social Studies learn all about why immigrants moved to Canada in the early days of our country, as well as what they contributed culturally to Canada. To incorporate dance into this specific PLO, we thought that teachers could use the following educational video to help students focus on one particular culture and their reasons for moving to this country, as well as the type of dance they introduced to our country. After watching this video and seeing just how agile and competitive Ukrainian dancer are, the teacher could arrange a competition between the students so that they may try to copy the dancing they saw in the video, and see who can jump the highest or dance the longest. This will show students just who strong the immigrants were when it came to not only work, but recreational activities too.