PHYSICAL EDUCATION LESSON PLAN

DPE Curriculum Guide 17​th​ Edition

Movement Skills and Concepts (7) LEVEL # __​I_​_ WEEK # ​__26__

GRADE LEVEL & NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 1st Grade / 27

TIME: ​30 mins

EQUIPMENT NEEDED:
Boom box, music cd (or ipod & ipod player), whistle
Dome Cones
30 yarn balls or other soft balls & Scoops
30 Hula Hoops

OBJECTIVES:
The student will:
1. Apply movement concepts such as body and space awareness, relationships, and qualities
of movement to a variety of locomotor and body management skills.
2. Combine locomotor and nonlocomotor skills into movement themes, e.g., supporting
body weight, bridges, receiving and transferring weight.

CALIFORNIA​ PE CONTENT STANDARDS:

Introductory Activity:​ ​1.1 Demonstrate an awareness of personal space, general space, and
boundaries while moving in different directions and at high, medium, and low levels in space.
Fitness Activity:​ ​3.1 Participate in physical activities that are enjoyable and challenging.
Lesson Focus:​ ​2.1 Identify the right and left sides of the body and movement from right to left
and left to right.
Game:​ ​5.1 Participate willingly in new physical activities.

PART 1: INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITY– ​Creative and Exploratory Opportunities​ (2-3 mins)

Instructional Activities Teaching Hints

Allow students to explore and create Ask students to move and be active without
activities while moving. Students will use being told what to do.
hula hoops and scoops with soft balls then
trade after a 1 minute. Encourage independent thinking.

PART 2: FITNESS DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY – Teacher Leader Exercises (8-12 mins):

Instructional Activities Teaching Hints

1. Puppy Dog Walk​ - 30 secs. Tape alternating segments (30 seconds in

2. Freeze; perform stretching activities
3. Iguana Walk ​- 30 secs.
4. Freeze; perform abdominals
challenges
5. Frog Jump​ - 30 secs.
6. Freeze; perform push-up position
challenges
7. Elephant Walk​ - 30 secs.
8. Freeze; Do stretching activities
9. Bear Walk ​- 30 secs.
10. Freeze; perform abdominal
challenges
11. Crab Walk​ - 30 secs.
12. Freeze; perform stretching and
relaxing activities
length) of silence and music to signal
duration of exercise. Students do animal
movements when the music plays; they do
fitness challenges when the music stops
A variation is to place animal movement
signs throughout the area and instruct
students to move from sign to sign doing
the appropriate animal movement each time
they reach a new sign.

PART 3: LESSON FOCUS – Throwing Skills (15-20 mins):

Instructional Activities Teaching Hints

Fundamental Skill: Twisting

1. Glue your feet to the floor. Can you twist
your body to the right and to the left? Can
you twist slowly, quickly? Can you bend and
twist at the same time? How far can you
twist your hands back and forth?
2. Twist two parts two parts of the body at
the same time. Try three. More?
3. Can you twist one part of the body in one
directions and another in a different
direction?
6. Is it possible to twist the upper half of
your body without twisting the lower part?
How about the reverse?
7. Balance on one foot and twist your body.
Can you bend and twist in this position?
8. What different shapes can you make using
twisted body parts?
Fundamental Skill: Turning
1. Turn your left and right with quarter and
half turns. Turn clockwise and
counterclockwise.
2. Teach direction-north, south, east, and
west. Introduce other directions-northwest,
southwest, etc.
3. Stand on one foot and turn around slowly;
quickly; with a series of small hops.
4. Cross your legs with a turn and then sit
down. Can you get up without moving your
feet?
5. When you hear the signal, turn completely
around once. Next time turn the other way.
Now try with two full turns; three.
Movement Concept: Tension and
Relaxation
1. Make yourself as tense as possible. Now
relax.
Select a few activities from each category
so students can practice a variety of skills.
When possible, integrate the manipulative
skill activities with fundamental skill
activities. A common error is to teach all
the activities from one category. Teaching
multiple groups of activities enhances
motivation.
Teach students the differences between a
twist and turn. Twisting is rotating a
selected body part around its own long
axis. Twisting involves movement around
the body part itself. Turning focuses on
the space in which the body turns and
involves moving the entire body.
Stress maintaining balance while doing
turning activities.
Perform twisting and turning movements
in both directions. Also, try the movement
in sitting or on tummy.
Relaxation activities are an excellent way
to finish the lesson. Help students learn to
2. Take a deep breath, hold it tight.Expel the recognize when a limb and muscles are
air and relax. relaxed.
3. Tense and reach as high as you can;
slowly relax and droop to the floor. A quiet atmosphere facilitates relaxing.
4. Show how you can tense different parts of Soft voices encourage students to “wind
the body. down”.
5. Tense one part of the body and relax
another. Shift the tenseness to the relax part
and vice versa.
6. Press your fingers hard against your
tensed abdominal muscles. Take your first
and beat lightly against the tensed position.
Relax. Repeat.
7. Move forward and stop suddenly in a
tensed position. Relax. Repeat.

PART 4: GAME ACTIVITY – Hula Hoop bowling (5 mins):

Instructional Activities Teaching Hints

Hula Hoop bowling Remind students they are to go one at a

Students are to get in groups of three arms time.
length apart around the hula hoop. Students
are to grab a yarn ball and then walk 10 No throwing the balls around or at each
steps away from the hula hoop. Students are other.
to try and roll the ball into the hoop without
having it get out of the hoop. The student
can do this sitting, standing and throwing it
under their legs.

CLOSURE: EVALUATION/REVIEW AND CHEER (1-2 MINUTES)

Raise your hand if you can remember an animal walk? Call on several students.
Hand in middle: 2, 4, 6, 8, PE is really great!