eTwinning activity: Dance for your wellbeing

Collaborating for wellbeing 

In this activity, two classes organise an online brainstorming session to they discuss what they think wellbeing is. They share their thoughts and ideas, which can be documented in a shared digital space (e.g. Padlet, digital map, word cloud). The two classes add to the brainstorm by discussing how dancing can be good for their wellbeing. Suggested answers include:  

• it is good because you are active and that is good for your body  
• it can help to make you feel less stressed 
• it is fun to do with your friends so it can make you happy 

Teachers divide their pupils into small international groups and assign each group a specific aspect of the benefits of dance for wellbeing. These may include physical health, mental health, social connections, self-expression and more. They provide resources for pupils to conduct research on their assigned topics through books or online sources, and encourage the groups to brainstorm ideas for their section of a poster, both text and visuals.  

Integrating and celebrating their ideas 

Each group presents their part of the poster in an online meeting, explaining their section’s conclusions about the benefits of dance for wellbeing. Teachers can encourage pupils to share examples from their own experience of the benefits of dance for wellbeing, or discuss video examples from the internet.  

Finally, the two classes create playlists. Each child adds a meaningful song to the playlist – one that they like to listen to when they feel happy, or sad, or when they want to dance. Each class uploads the playlist to their TwinSpace and can listen to the other’s playlist. In the end, the classes can have a video call to complete the activity with a dance party.