Recycling - A KS1 Dance Unit

This comprehensive Key Stage 1 dance scheme from The Dance Stage, enables Year 2 pupils to explore movement through the contemporary and relevant theme of recycling.

Over six flexible teaching phases, children develop performing, creating and appreciating skills whilst deepening their understanding of materials and sustainability.

The unit uniquely combines physical education with scientific processes, allowing children to embody the recycling journey from collection to transformation. Pupils learn a structured Recycling Sorting Machine Dance, create their own process-based sequences, and develop creative responses using bin bags as props.

The scheme emphasizes isolated movements and joint awareness, teaching pupils to use choreographic devices including unison, canon, action/reaction, repetition, and retrograde.

With process images, success criteria, warm-up games, curated music play lists, and supporting videos, this resource provides everything needed to deliver innovative, cross-curricular dance education.

Ideal for: Year 2 teachers, Key Stage 1 coordinators, PE specialists, dance teachers, trainee teachers, and educators delivering sustainability topics.
Special Features:

• Links to environmental education and sustainability
• Innovative use of props (bin bags)
• Scientific process visualization through movement
• Focus on isolated movements and joint awareness
• 6 phases allow extended engagement with theme
• Peer feedback and self-evaluation embedded