1 GRADE LEVEL: 4rd Grade CLASS SIZE: 22 students LESSON LENGTH: 30 minutes UNIT: Space Awareness LESSON #: 1 of 2 LESSON FOCUS: Spatial awareness, personal space, general space, high-medium-low levels, following directions PREVIOUSLY LEARNT SKILLS: high-medium-low levels FACILITITES: Blacktop/Grass EQUIPMENT: Cones variety to mark boundaries Hula Hoop for each student Whistle
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs):
Psychomotor: SWBAT perform locomotor skills like skipping, sliding, galloping, walking at all levels (low, medium, high) in order to make their way into general space to maintain good personal space.
Cognitive: SWBAT discuss the strategies they implemented as individuals and/or teammates to accomplish the task of not bumping into other students and making it to the other side by maintaining good personal space. SWBAT to discuss strategies they used at conclusion of the activity and explain at least 1 benefit of maintaining personal space to accomplish a task(s). Key words for 4th grade students: personal space, general space, awareness.
Affective: SWBAT include individual and/or teamwork and space awareness concepts in this lesson in order to effectively accomplish the task(s). Effective space awareness traits can include: smiling, high-fives, positive dialogue, encouragement, positive feedback for strategies to maintain personal space.
Health-related: SWBAT recognize the physiological responses to exercise and will be engaged in MVPA for at least 50% of the lesson time.
Instant Activity: Space Ship Red Light/Green Light 5 Minutes Time: 1 minute
On the blacktop or grass area mark off a large rectangle space for the students to move about (cones). Have students line up on one side of the rectangle. The students will be inside a hula hoop and have it parallel to the floor. They will move on green light, slow down on yellow light, and stop/freeze on red light. Students will be moving in different levels at different speeds based on directions given by the teacher. Each student who is caught following directions for the wrong light called will be sent back to start over. Main objective = affective. Feedback statements = re: Affective SLO. Time: 4 minutes.
Drs. Killick. Tiger P.R.I.D.E: Unit 1: Lesson 1: Co-operative Learning 2 Body of Session: Cooperative Learning/Problem Solving: 21 minutes
Activity #1 Space Ship City/Tag Time 21 minutes Set up
O O O O O O O O O X O O O O O O O O O O= students in hula hoops X= Teacher Time Activity/COTS Refinement Organization 1 min. Demo: Students will have a hula hoop to serve as their spaceship. With half the class on each side of the designated rectangle, they will simultaneously travel to the other side using different pathways, locomotor skills, and different levels and speeds. A demonstration will be done by the teacher and a few selected volunteers who are displaying good, cooperative, and quiet behaviour. Locomotor skills: skipping, jogging, walking, waddling (duck walk), sliding, galloping
Height Levels: high, medium, low
Speeds: fast, medium slow
Semi-circle
2 min. Explain to students that they have to be aware of their own personal space, others personal space, and general space. Students will work together to not bump into each other through each task. Key Words: Personal space General space Awareness Look at each other Semi-circle around teacher 2 min. 30 sec Students practicing Teacher movement: reinforce Affective objective General activity space 30 sec Refinement: remind students to keep their personal space and not get in the personal space of others Reinforcing Affective objective Students in General Space Drs. Killick. Tiger P.R.I.D.E: Unit 1: Lesson 1: Co-operative Learning 3 4 min. Students practicing Teacher movement: reinforce Affective objective Students in General Space 2 min Transition/Re-group: quick discussion about the strategies you saw as students were maintaining personal space while performing various tasks. Introduce tag. When someone gets tagged they will say spaceship down and a teammate must tap them on the shoulder to be reactivated. Upon being tapped on the shoulder, student will say spaceship up! and resume activity. Semi-circle 4 min. Students practicing different locomotor skills and different pathways in general space Reinforce Affective objective and Use Key Words, personal space, awareness, general space, work together, listen Whole class in GS
4 min Make the general space smaller Reinforce Affective objective 3-5 groups 1 min Equipment Pick Up: as a team collect equipment from a station and place together in a designated equipment area.
Closure: 4 minutes
Class reviews what skills we learned today: personal space, general space, space awareness, key terms Time: 2 minutes. Class discusses strategies to keep good personal space Time: 1 minute. Discuss what students will be doing next class period and how what they learned in your lesson will transfer into the next. Time: 1 minute Class ends with high-fives on exit. Drs. Killick. Tiger P.R.I.D.E: Unit 1: Lesson 1: Co-operative Learning 4
Assessment:
In addition to the systematic observations that will assess motor differences, time spent in physical activity; you should spend this session assessing the affective skills of your students and cultural differences you may see emerge. Take notes on the following and include in your reflection journal: - What languages did you hear the students speak? - Who did the students partner with if given a choice? - During down time who did the students socialize with? - Were the students able to work effectively and without conflict with their partners/teams? If not, what factors seemed to be causing conflict? - What evidence of teamwork/communication did you see? (e.g. high fives etc) - Did the students request any activities/sports? If so, what were they? - What role does Maria play? How do the students respond to her? Does their behavior change when she is around? - Did you learn anything about the students home life/background? If so, what?