Lesson

Title/Focus

Body Awareness- Pathways

Date

Tuesday November 18,2014

Subject/Grade
Level

Physical Education/ Grade One

Time
Duration

40min

Unit

Creative Dance

Teacher

Dustin Pivarnyik

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

A.
B.
C.
D.

General
Learning
Outcomes:
Specific
Learning
Outcomes:

Activity
Benefits Health
Cooperation
Do it Daily For Life

Embedded throughout lesson

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will:
1. Understand what a pathway is
2. Create their own movement routine, combining pathways with different movement types.

ASSESSMENTS
Observations:
Key Questions:
Products/Performances:

Students will demonstrate different ways to move, while being aware of what
their bodies are doing.
Why do we move in different ways? Why dont we just run, or jump, or
skip everywhere?
Rocket ship pathway sequence created

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

Alberta POS
ABCDs of Movement

Gym
Music

PROCEDURE
Introduction
Assessment of Prior
Knowledge
Expectations for
Learning and Behaviour
Learning Activity #1

Time

Students will move in ways they already learned in first acitivity.

Students will sit quietly when instructed to do so.
Body
A1-1, A1-11, B1-3, B1-4, C1-1, C1-3, C1-4, D1-1, D1-2, D1-3

Time

4 Corners Movement
Students will participate in a game of 4 corners. However, when moving
in between the corners, students are only able to use the movement
patterns I specify.
1. Skipping
2. Shuffling
3. Running
If I call a corner that the students are at, the students that were caught
join the center circle. They will be expected to work on their movements
while we wait for every student to be caught.

Transition: Students make a circle for stretching

Teacher Notes:
Assessments/
Differentiation

IF game moves too fast, invite every student back into the game to
participate.

5-7min

Learning Activity #2

A1-3, B1-7, D1-4

Stretching
Lead students through a variety of stretches, focusing on balance. Lead
students though breathing exercises to get them calm from running
around.

3min

Transition: Students now find a space in the gym,

but close enough that they can still see and hear
the teacher
Teacher Notes:
Assessments/
Differentiation

Focus on the specifics of what students should be doing while stretching

Learning Activity #3

Understanding Pathways
Students will now go through a variety of different pathways. Explain
that pathways are the directions that our bodies move.
Have students imagine that they just walked in paint, and now every
step they make leaves paint on the floor. Have students perform a
variety of different paths:
a) Make the letter s- try it walking, running, skipping etc
b) Wiggles- get students to move in a wiggly line
c) Straight lines: students move in straight lines
d) Small and large zig zags
e) Make the letter o

10min

Transition: Have students join in the center circle

Learning Activity #4

A1-8, A1-9, C1-5, D1-7

Create your own Pathway

Tell students to imagine that they are a rocket ship. This rocket ship will
be blasting off, orbiting earth, and moving around the galaxy. With a
partner, students will recreate the movement that a rocket ship may do.
Demonstrate how I would blast off (fast), than slow down and orbit
earth (circles), than speed up, do zig zags.etc
Students may be responsible to share their rocket ship story with the
rest of the class. Music can play during this.

15min

Transition: Students rejoin center circle to

consolidate learning
Consolidation of
Learning:

Feedback From Students

Reflections from the
lesson

Closure
Students will be asked to move to the line up in a pathway I specify
Wiggles
Zig Zag
Straight Lines
Exit Slip done in classroom

Time