Names: Alea Troup, Cassie Diehl, Carolyn Stout, Catelin Bodner, Julia Horwitz, Carly Opar

Date of Presentation: November 7 2018

Topic: Movement in the Classroom

Learning Goal: To provide knowledge about movement in the classroom and why it is so
beneficial to students.

Learning Objectives: To show future educators why they should incorporate movement into
their school days by providing them with statistics and examples that they can use in their future
classrooms.

Audience: Classmates

Instructional Timing Detailed Content Materials Media

Content Needed Utilized

Introduction: 3 Dance fitness warm-up Open floor space Speaker

Dance minutes
Large Group 8 Explain cognitive and Promethean Promethean
Activity: minutes physical benefits by having Board linked to board
Benefits of students walk to whiteboard solstice
Movement labeled “cognitive” or
“physical” based on their Open floor space
beliefs about the statistics
Labeled
whiteboards

Transition 1 Count off by 2’s using a jump Open floor space N/A
minute or squat to distinguish groups

Jumpers : group 1
Squatters: group 2
 10 Introduce and review the Laptop Go Noodle
Group 1 : minutes benefits of brain breaks access
Movement
through Explain how to adapt brain
transition breaks to student demographic

Explain how teachers can

ensure students with
disabilities will participate in
transitions

Present water cycle video on

GoNoodle

Reflect how to use Go Noodle

videos for different learning
environments

Transition: 1 Give students options on how Floor space N/A

Move to other minute they want to move to the other
group group by moving like their
favorite animal, athlete, or
artist
Group 2 : 10 Provide a brief summary of White Board
Movement minutes why it is important to use
through movement in curriculum Worksheet with N/A
Curriculum sample sentences
Show students simple math using
problems and direct students punctuations
to gather in groups that were
equivalent to the answer of
the problem

Read sentences from sheet

and students replicate ending
punctuation with their body

Brainstorm use of movement

in science and history

Transition: 2 Ask students to find a seat. Open floor space Speaker

Cool Down minutes Lead deep breathing and
positive thinking exercise to
calm students’ brains and
bodies for discussion

Reflection and 5 Explain the example lesson Chairs N/A

Discussion minutes plan on the worksheet and ask
students to brainstorm ways to Whiteboards
incorporate movement into with discussion
the lesson for the appropriate questions
age group