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Wyant (2014)
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GRADE LEVEL: 3
rd

CLASS SIZE: 30
LESSON LENGTH: 30 minutes
UNIT: Spatial Awareness
LESSON #: 3
LESSON FOCUS: General/ Personal Space
PREVIOUSLY LEARNED SKILLS: General/Personal Spacing
FACILITITES: Blacktop (preferred), Grass
EQUIPMENT: 30 dome cones, 30 Hula Hoops, 8 pennies, 4 regular cones




































Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs):

Psychomotor: SWBAT demonstrate or perform movements while in an open space as
well as in a space that is more condensed due to obstacles in the learning atmosphere.

Cognitive: SWBAT identify strategies on how move throughout different spacing
(general and personal).

Affective: SWBAT gain confidence while performing movements in general and
personal space. Students will smile throughout activities and have positive attitudes
toward their classmates.

H-R Fitness: Students will go through an instant activity to warm up their muscles and
increase their heart rate.
Instant Activity: 5 minutes


1 min Intro- Quickly demonstrate mountains and valleys



4 min Mountains and Valleys- Dome cones will be either right side up or upside
down. There will be two equal teams and there will be a mountain team and a valley
team. The mountain team wants all the cones right side up while the valley team
wants them to be flipped over. Students will continue to do this until the time is
finished.
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LESSON BODY: 25 minutes

Activity
#1
Traffic Light Tag
Time 7 minutes
Set up
Choose three students to be the chasers. Each has a different color penny ( Yellow,
Red, Green). The chasers run after the other players (cars) and try to tag them. When
tagged by a green light (green player) players can run as fast as they want safely
throughout general space. When tagged by a chaser with the yellow vest the student
tagged must walk throughout general space. When tagged by the chaser in the red the
student tagged must freeze until retagged by either the green light or yellow light.




Time Activity/COTS Refinement Organization
1 min T:S Demo Students on
home base

6 min Traffic light tag Switch around
students who are the
wear the pennies
(yellow, red, green)
General space
Activity
#2

Space Ship Up, Space Ship Down
Time 7 minutes
Set up
Each Student is given a hoop. These players are astronauts and are walking
throughout outer space. Three other students have a different color hoop and are the
taggers or "aliens." All students move around the gymnasium on a spacewalk while
standing inside their hoop. When a player is touched by an "alien"(tagger) they are
told by that "alien" spaceship down and must sit on the floor inside their hoop until
rescued by another astronaut. To be rescued an astronaut touches a downed spaceship
on their head and says "spaceship up" frozen player can now re-enter the game.
1 min T:S Demo Students at
home base
6 min Space Ship Up, Space Ship
Down
Remind students
about how to tag
and what to say in
game.
Switch around
aliens
General space
Activity
#3
Virus
Time 7 minutes
Set Up
Don't let the virus spread all over the world.Choose three students to be taggers.
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These players try and tag as many citizens as possible. Choose another two students to
be doctors. These players rescue any tagged players. When tagged by a virus, the
tagged player must stand still pretending to be sick until touched by a doctor. When a
doctor tags a frozen player that player is allowed to get up and return to the game.
1 min T:S Demo Home Base
6 min Virus Virus and doctors
will switch after a
few minutes
General/Personal
space






Closure: 4 minutes
1. What are the two types of space we learned about today?
2. What was your favorite activity? Why?
3. What was difficult about the activities?
4. What strategies did you use to avoid getting tagged?


Assessment plan
I will go around observing students as well as providing feedback and using positive
reinforcement when I see fit.