PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH LEARNING MODULE

PHYSICAL
EDUCATION AND
HEALTH
(H.O.P.E 3)

LEARNING MODULE
THIRD QUARTER
Week 1
BRIEF HISTORY AND NATURE OF DANCE
BENEFITS OF DANCE AND CREATIVE MOVEMENT

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Content Standard
 The learners
Demonstrates understanding of dance in optimizing one’s health; as
requisite for physical activity assessment performance, and as a career
opportunity.

Performance Standard
 The learners
Leads dance events with proficiency and confidence resulting in
independent pursuit and in influencing others positively.

Most Essential Learning Competencies

 The learners
Self-assesses health-related fitness (HRF) status, barriers to physical
activity assessment participation and one’s diet.

Learning Objectives
After completing this lesson, students will be able to:
 Define dance.
 Assess your own health-related fitness
 Distinguish the barriers of physical into one’s diet
 Understand the history and nature of dance
 Discover on how to handle personal barriers in physical activity

INTRODUCTION TO DANCE

How dance came about and where it all began. We will discuss the elements and
characteristics of dance to better understand the components of dance performance.
Determining the benefits of dancing and learning how to appreciate and evaluate a dance
composition and performance.
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Note that the dances used as examples for the exercises in the succeeding sections
are mostly Philippine folk dances to augment promotion and appreciation of these
dances.

“Before man can do anything, he must draw breath, he must move. Movement is
the source and condition of life. To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful,
more powerful. This power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking”
- Agnes de Mille (1963)

WHAT IS DANCE?
Dance differs from athletics or other
daily activities because it focuses primarily on
“an aesthetic or even entertaining experience”.

Dance is an activity which can take

many forms and fill many different needs. It can
be recreation, entertainment, education, therapy
and religion.

Do you know where dances come from?

Dance can be seen among all people and civilizations of the world. Dances thrived at
different periods of history and mostly were a result of intercultural exchange and contact. The
origins of dance are rooted in the prehistoric past.

Dance has been major form of religious ritual and social expression within primitive
cultures. It was used as a way of expressing and reinforcing tribal unity and strength, as an
approach for courtship and mating, and as means of worship, communication, and therapeutic
experience. It was said that the first use of dance was a gesture in order to communicate.

Dance was also commonly used in education. Greek philosophers such as Plato,
Aristotle, and Socrates strongly supported this art as an integration of the body and soul. Plato
immensely gave importance to dance in education as stated in his elucidation on the Laws. He
highlighted the two kinds of dance and music: the noble (fine and honorable) and the ignoble
(imitating what is means or ugly).

SPECIFIC BENEFITS OF DANCE

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Dancing is one of the oldest and most popular forms of exercise. Several forms of
dancing are considered aerobic since they entail about an hour of “continuous exercises,
choreographed to music”.

PHYSICAL
When done regularly, dancing is a good way to develop
cardiovascular and muscular endurance, body composition as well as
balance and flexibility.
 Develops cardiovascular and muscular endurance
 Improves coordination, balance, flexibility, and body
composition
 Lowers risk of cardiovascular diseases
 Lowers body mass index
 Lowers resting heart rate
 Improves lipid metabolism
 Enables joint mobility (hip motion and spine flexibility)
 Helps improve and maintain bone density, thus helps prevent
osteoporosis
 Helps recover coordination and neuromuscular skills after injury.

MENTAL/EMOTIONAL
Ravelin et al. (2006, p.3112) also suggested that dance
can be used as intervention in mental health in nursing. They
revealed that dance can offer “an acceptable way to release
emotional and physical pressure”
 Helps keep brain sharp
 Decreases incidence of dementia and Alzheimer’s
disease
 Decreases depressive symptoms
 Increases self-esteem and improves body image
 Aids in releasing emotional and physical tension

SOCIAL
Dance provides a unique opportunity for meaningful group
involvement as it encourages intense, positive social
interaction and interpersonal relationships in a working group.
They believe that “it contributes to each individual’s potential
for the fullest possible self-actualization in society”.
 Gives sense of togetherness within a group
 Encourages positive social interaction and
interpersonal relationship in a group
 Contributes to the individual’s potential for self-
actualization in society.

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CULTURAL
Dance promotes a place or a country’s rich
culture through showing the different cultural dances.
The people around the world are bought to “a closer
understanding of the lives of the people represented and to
appreciation of their respective folk cultures”
 Promotes cultural values

PERSONAL BARRIERS

With technological advances and conveniences, people’s lives have in many ways
become increasingly easier, as well as less active. In addition, people have many personal
reasons or explanations for being inactive. The most common reasons adults don't adopt
more physically active lifestyles are cited as

 insufficient time to exercise

 inconvenience of exercise
 lack of self-motivation
 non-enjoyment of exercise
 boredom with exercise
 lack of confidence in their ability to be physically active (low self-efficacy)
 fear of being injured or having been injured recently
 lack of self-management skills, such as the ability to set personal goals, monitor
 progress, or reward progress toward such goals
 lack of encouragement, support, or companionship from family and friends
 non-availability of parks, sidewalks, bicycle trails, or safe and pleasant walking
 paths close to home or the workplace

The top three barriers to engaging in physical activity across the adult lifespan are

 time
 energy
 motivation

ACTIVITY #1

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STUDENT NAME: ___________________________________________

TRACK/STRANDS: ___________________________________________

SUBJECT: __________________________________

DATE: _____________

TEACHER:__________________________________

Watch any dance class based on your choice. Give at least two benefits of dance based
on the following:

PHYSICAL
1. __________________________________________________________________________

2. __________________________________________________________________________

EMOTIONAL
1. __________________________________________________________________________

2. __________________________________________________________________________

MENTAL
1. __________________________________________________________________________

2. __________________________________________________________________________

SOCIAL
1. __________________________________________________________________________

2. __________________________________________________________________________

CULTURAL
1. __________________________________________________________________________

2. __________________________________________________________________________
POINTERS OF THE TOPIC
Dance is an integral part of human existence. Dancing gives many beneficial effects not
just physically but mentally, emotionally, socially, and culturally. In its purest and most basic
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form, dance is art, the art of body movement. There’s a lot of physical activity barriers when it
comes in assessing own self. But if you know how to manage time, work, etc. You can handle
those simple things. Set first your own activities//things in a day that you are going to perform.
In that way you can succeed in everyday life activities and at the same time you can take care of
your health.

KEY TERMS

Prehistoric Past - refers to the period of time before civilization and writing

Therapeutic - relating to the healing of disease.

Barriers - a fence or other obstacle that prevents movement or access.

Lack – the state of being without or not having enough of something.

Inconvenience - trouble or difficulty caused to one's personal requirements or comfort.

Insufficient - not enough

Aerobic - relating to or denoting exercise that improves or is intended to improve the efficiency
of the body's cardiovascular system in absorbing and transporting oxygen.

Elucidation - explanation that makes something clear; clarification.

Law - the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the
actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.

Noble - having or showing fine personal qualities or high moral principles and ideals.

Ignoble - not honorable in character or purpose

QUIZ #1

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Name: _______________________________________ Score:________________

Track/Strands:_________________________________ Date:_________________

Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the letter of your answer on (CAPITAL
LETTER) on the blank before each number.

_____1. It can be recreation, entertainment, education, therapy, and religion.

a. Dance c. Aerobics
b. Zumba d. Sprts
_____2. Who suggested that dance can be used as intervention in mental health nursing?
a. Waynes c. Agnes de Mille
b.Flores d. Ravelin
_____3. Where dance came from?
a. Ancient Greeks c. Prehistoric Past
b. Rome d. Renaissance Period
_____4. This kind of benefits promotes a place or a country’s rich through showing the different
dances.
a. Social c. Cultural
b. Physical d. Mental
_____5. What are the three top barriers engaging in physical activity?
a. Space-Time-Energy c. Time-Energy-Matter
b. Time-Energy-Motivation d. Shapes-Time-Energy
_____6. He immensely gave importance to dance in education as stated in his elucidation on the
Laws.
a. Plato c. Aristotle
b. Socrates d. Bill Gates
_____7. These kinds of benefits provide a unique opportunity for meaningful group involvement
as it encourages intense, positive interaction and interpersonal relationships.
a. Cultural b. Emotional
b. Social d. Physical
_____8. What is the meaning of noble according to Plato?
a. Fine and Honorable b. Honor and Pleasure
c. Undefined and Fine c. Appreciation
_____9. What is the meaning of ignoble according to Plato?
a. Augmented c. Imitating
b. 3D Model d. Fine
_____10. Who are the Greek Philosophers strongly supported this art as an integration of the
body and soul?
a. Bill Gates, Socrates, Plato c. Mendelev, Aristotle, Bill Gates
b. Gaufman, Plato, Ravelin d. Aristotle, Plato, Socrates
QUIZ #2

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Name: _______________________________________ Score:________________

Track/Strands:_________________________________ Date:_________________

Directions: Read each statement below carefully. Write TRUE on the line if the statement is
correct and FALSE if it is wrong.

__________1. Dance can form of expression that helps a person bring forth who they are.

__________2. Physical benefits help keep the brain sharp.

__________3. Space-Energy-Time are the top three of personal barriers in physical activity.

__________4. Dancing can eliminate stress, depression, anxiety, and etc.

__________5. Movement is not the source and condition of life.

__________6. One of the personal barriers is lack of confidence in their ability to be physically
active

__________7. Emotional/Mental is an acceptable way to release emotional and physical

pressure.

__________8. People dance because they want to express their feelings.

__________9. Non-availability of parks, sidewalks, bicycle trails, or safe and pleasant

walking is another personal barrier of physical activity.

__________10. Dancing is one of the oldest and most popular forms of exercise.

REFLECTION OF THE TOPIC

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Name: _______________________________________ Score:________________

Track/Strands:_________________________________ Date:_________________

1. How do you handle the different barriers every time you do a physical activity? Kindly cite the
barriers.

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2. Why do we need to assess our own self when it comes to health?

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REFERENCES

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Physical Education and Health Volume II (Published by REX BOOK STORE)

by: Condrado R. Aparanto, Zyra Ruth Talaroc-Brebante, LUalhati Fernando-Callo,
Peter Fermin Dajime (pp. 3-8)

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