GYM LESSON PLAN- DODGE BALL FUN

Instructor Name:
Colleen Trumble
Class:
Dr. Hamman Elementary School Grade 3/4
8:45- 9:15 am

Lesson Title:
Dodge ball Fun
Tech Requirements: (list all materials you might need. Include special
materials like balloons and also basic classroom materials like chalkboards).
• Hula Hoops
• Bean Bags
• Dodge balls
Administrative Notes: (if relevant, include any information needed to share
with the teacher or the class).
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General Outcome:
• Students will acquire skills through a variety of developmentally
appropriate movement activities. Students will also interact positively
with others.
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Specific Learning Objectives:

• Students will practice locomotor skills by walking, running, jumping,
leaping
• Students will practice manipulative skills by catching, collecting,
retaining (carrying) and sending (throwing)

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KSA’S:
1)How contextual variables affect teaching and learning
2) The structure of the Alberta Education system
3) The purposes of the Guide to Education and programs of study for
subject disciplines you teach
4) Subject Disciplines you teach
7) Student’s need for physical, social, cultural and psychological
security
8) Importance of respecting student’s human dignity
9) There are many approaches to teaching and learning
11) The purposes of student assessment
16) The importance of guiding your actions with a personal, overall
vision of the purpose of teaching
 17) You are expected to achieve the teaching quality standard

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Assessment:
• Students will be assessed through observation and participation in the
games provided.

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ACTIVITIES
Name of Exercise: Expected Length: (in
Warm-up minutes)
5 minutes
Purpose: (why is this exercise included in the lesson)
To warm the students up for gym and get their rowdiness out at the beginning
of the lesson.
Detailed instructions: (how will this exercise be explained to the group)
• Teacher will tell the students to run three laps around the gym when
they first enter, and when they finish to sit in the middle on the circle.

Name of Exercise: Expected Length: (in

Rabbits and Foxes- Dodge ball style minutes)
7 minutes
Purpose: (why is this exercise included in the lesson)
Being that the students have been working on dodge ball, this is another
version to try.
Detailed instructions: (how will this exercise be explained to the group)
• Students will be split into two groups
• One group will be the foxes, the other will be rabbits
• Rabbits will start on one side of the gym. Beanbags will be set up on the
other
• Hula hoops will be set out in the middle of the gym in all sorts of
random places
• Rabbits goal is to get to other side of gym and bring all the beanbags
back to the side they started at. However they can only get to other
side by hopping. Rabbits are safe in holes but they can only stay in
them for 3 seconds.
• Also if another rabbit jumps in their hole, they must leave! There can
only be one rabbit in a hole at once.
• Once a fox hits a rabbit, they switch places. The rabbit becomes the fox
and the fox becomes the rabbit.
Name of Exercise: Expected Length: (in
Candlestick Dodge ball minutes)
7 minutes
Purpose: (why is this exercise included in the lesson)
To introduce the students to another version of dodge ball
Detailed instructions: (how will this exercise be explained to the group)
• The class will be separated into ½ again.
• One half of the class will be in the middle, the other half will be throwing
dodge balls
• When a person in the middle is hit by a ball, they become a “candle”
standing still with their feet together and their hands in a point above
their heads. They have to slowly lower their hands to their sides.
• Once their hands hit their sides they are melted and sit down.
• HOWEVER, if another student in the middle runs under their arms, they
are no longer a candle and can continue dodging the balls.
• After 3 minutes, the instructor will call switch, and the people in the
middle will go to the outside and vice versa

Observations/Comments/Reflections