Marthy Watson

The Tiny Seed

Exploring the Elements of Dance Through Storytelling: The Tiny Seed

This lesson introduces young students to the elements of dance through imaginative movement and storytelling. Inspired by Eric Carle’s The Tiny Seed, students explore how their bodies can communicate ideas, emotions, and events without words. Through a series of engaging warm-up activities and a whole-class movement story, students learn to experiment with space, levels, dynamics, relationships, and body actions while bringing the journey of the seeds to life.

Paint the Music

What if students could paint a feeling instead of a picture? What if music became the starting point for visual expression, imagination and meaningful conversations about emotions and the world around them? Integrating music and visual arts offers rich opportunities for primary students to explore creativity, emotional literacy and personal meaning-making in authentic ways.

Walk a Mile in My Shoes: Perspectives from the First Fleet and Early Colonial Australia

This integrated Drama and Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) unit invites students to explore the diverse perspectives, experiences, and motivations of people involved in Australia’s early colonies in the 1700s. Through collaborative research and group-devised drama, students investigate key moments in the history of colonisation while developing historical understanding, empathy, and creative expression. Suitable for upper primary students (8–11 years).

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