These forms of physical activity encourage children to gain an awareness of their own and other cultures, to enhance self-esteem and to learn to solve problems, express feelings, improve communication and cooperative skills. Students progress from basic to more complex movement sequences that manifest themselves in different dance forms such as folk, square, multicultural and jazz as well as in rhythmic gymnastics. Rhythmics and dance provide excellent opportunities for bridging between physical education, arts education and social studies. Educational Games Games have traditionally occupied a large part of the physical education curriculum and many school programs are dominated by group games to the exclusion of other important curriculum experiences. There is a need to shift the emphasis, however, from merely playing games to an educational games approach in which the learning of games has the main goals of learning skills and strategies and understanding about game principles.
Students use game principles to design their own games and to adapt or modify pre-designed games.
In this new approach games are the medium in and through which concepts are explored, revisited and applied. Stay balanced at all times, ready to move in any direction. Use a variety of fakes when tagging and when avoiding tags. Change directions and speeds quickly in dodging. Be aware of what is happening to the sides and to the back, too.