Dancing Science is a teaching resource packed with creative dance ideas that provide a highly effective and exciting scheme of dance activity for primary schools, whilst simultaneously supporting delivery of the Key Stage 2 science curriculum.

Physical Dance activities include:
- Introduction to Light
- Introduction to Sound
- Forces & Friction
- Sun, Earth & Moon
- Reversible & Irreversible
- Making & Changing Sound
- Circuits

This CD ROM was devised by Hampshire Dance as a direct result of a year long dance project involving 460 children and 17 teachers in two Southampton primary schools. The project was commissioned and supported by Creative Partnerships, Southampton and Isle of Wight.

Following the initial pilot project it was important to assess the effectiveness of a movement based approach to teaching science. A mixed group of Year 5/6 children were monitored as they worked through one of the units.

All of the children completed the following:

- Learning styles questionnaires (using Gardner’s model of seven   multiple intelligences: linguistic, logistic, musical, visual, kinaesthetic,   intrapersonal and interpersonal)

- Pre and post project science quizzes based on the topic

- Weekly journals documenting their experience of Dancing Science

Due to the presence of a high proportion of ‘musical’ learners, rhymes were introduced to particularly target this group. This complemented the planned targeting of kinaesthetic learners.

Each class participated in five 35 minute Dancing Science sessions and the project had a positive impact on many of the children. The graph below demonstrates the increase in test marks that each group achieved.

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