Viruses
Overview
topic
15
OVERVIEW OF TOPIC 15
OVERVIEW

Get increased knowledge about how lungs function, how viruses work, how they affect the body, and how the body, through the immune system and vaccination, is protecting the body from the effects of viruses. Understand how the different agents in the body move and react to each other, through play, physical movement and dance. Viruses and the immune system are modelled using the students’ own bodies, using a choice of materials (possibly air dry clay/plasticine (Session 4) and figures in drawing). In the warm-up, a repertoire of dance to music from Sami, Roma, Hungarian and children’s culture is explored and performed, and the students get to experiment with pulse, rhythm, tempo, dynamics and form in dance

SUMMARY

The Virus Theme is a double theme. Theme 15 is the first part. The first six sessions focus on the three agents in the body’s fight against a virus threat: the lungs (breathing factory), the viruses and the immune system. The last six sessions (Theme 16) are more flexible than the other themes. These are used to deepen the understanding of the relationship of the three agents and end in a physical representation of the dynamics between the three, where the whole system is in play simultaneously, formed as a game/roleplay/dance.