Teacher: Block 3

Unit Topic: Gymnastics

Date: 11/17/2014
Lesson Topic: Yoga

# of Students: 25

Grade: 3, 5

TYPE

OBJECTIVE

STANDARD(s)

Psychomotor

The student will be able to do the tree pose by having their foot to knee, the downward dog by having their eyes to toes, the warrior by
having arms out, the triangle pose by stretching to one side, the cobra pose by pushing hips to the floor, and the childs pose by sitting
on heels.

NASPE 1, PA
10.5.6.A

Cognitive

The student will be able identify the yoga poses learned today on an exit slip.

NASPE 2, PA
10.5.6.B

Affective

The student will compliment and encourage fellow students on their yoga poses.

NASPE 5, PA
10.4.6.F

Technology (if
applicable)
Equipment/Supplies: 6 mats, polyspots, 3 yarn balls, cones, music

LESSON CONTENT & PROGRESSIONS

Instant Activity:
Excuse Me, What Are You Doing?
Students spread out around classroom.
Students approach other students and
ask, excuse me, what are you doing?
The student being asked the question
responds with a fitness exercise they
want the questioner to perform for 10
reps. The questioner then may be
approached by someone and be asked,
excuse me what are you doing? The
questioner would then have to do
what the person tells them. This
activity will continue for roughly 3-5
minutes.

TEACHING CUES

CHALLENGES: TEACHING
BY INVITATION &
INTRATASK VARIATION
one challenge must be
described for each
activity/task

MANAGERIAL STRATEGIES

ITV: Do double of what the Polyspots and hula hoops are spread
out around
gym.
person asks you!
Students=

SAFETY

ASSESSMENT at
least one formal or
informal assessment
measure must be
listed for each
activity/task.

Students are within

their own personal
space.

Students are moving

about the gym,
interacting with
others and
performing fitness
exercises.

Set Induction
Students, we have been moving
through our gymnastics unit with many
kinds of bodily movements. Has
anyone ever watched gymnastics in
the Olympics? We are going to learn
some of the same movements they use
in their performances. Yoga will help
us to further better our flexibility and
gymnastics skills. Lets get started!

Students bring it back in to the line for

further instruction.

Activity/Task
Yoga Stations

Students broken up into groups of

about 6. Each group begins at a certain Students within
station and rotates until they
personal space on
complete the circuit. There will be a
mat at each station.
teacher or two at each station to
teach and demonstrate each pose.

Groups progress counter-clockwise

around gym. There will be a teacher at
each station demonstrating and
teaching each pose.
Downward Dog

The Warrior

Triangle Pose

Palms down,
eyes to toes

TBI: The student can alter

the base poses any way they
would like to increase or
decrease difficulty. For
Arms
out, example, for The Triangle
Front knee
Pose, the student could
bent
forego raising their top hand
and just stay in the stretch
Stretch to one
to one side position.
side, Arms
make a pole

Cobra Pose

Hips to floor,
Head back

Childs Pose

Arms
extended, Sit
on heels

Tree Pose

Foot to knee,
Reach for the
sky

Physio Ball Supermans

Core
tight,
opposite arm,
opposite
leg
lift.

Planks

Keep
flat

back

Students are mindful

of their limbs, making
sure to keep them
under control at all
times.

Students are
handed an exit slip
to match yoga pose
pictures to the
name of the yoga
pose. Students will
return the
completed slip next
class period.

Transition:
Freeze, eyes on me! Can every please
bring it in to this blue line? We are
now going to use the yoga skills we
have learned in a game of Sun
Salutation or Stop and Pose!

2 mats from circuit removed. 4 mats

remain for Yoga Tag.

Activity/ Task:

Make a big circle with polyspots, have

students find a poly spot, teacher will
be in the middle leading.

Sun Salutation
The prayer pose. Transition into arms
above the head, bend touch your toes,
lunge with right leg forward. Step back
into a plank pose and hold for 5
seconds. Move into the cobra pose,
back into the plank pose. Step with left
foot into a lunge, bring right foot up
touching your toes. Arms above the
head back into the prayer pose.
Then have 3 students in the middle
creating their own sun salutation to
lead the rest of the class.

Teacher

Activity/Task

Palms down,
eyes to toes

Stop and Pose!

Polyspots and hula hoops are spread
about the gym. Music plays and
students travel around gym as the
teacher requests (jogging, skipping,
hopping, student-suggested way of
moving). When the music stops,
students must find either a polyspot or
hoop. If the student is on a polyspot,
they must perform a balance. If the
student is within a hoops, they must
perform a static stretch. Music begins
again and students must move to a
new spot or hoop.

Arms out,
Front knee
bent
Stretch to one
side, Arms
make a pole
Hips to floor,
Head back

Arms
extended, Sit
on heels
Foot to knee,
Reach for the
sky

Transition:
Freeze, eyes on me. Hula hoops and
polyspots in please line up on this blue
line facing me.

Closure
Students, I saw some great yoga poses

TBI: Students can choose

which yoga pose they
would like to do.
TBI: Students can create
their own yoga pose based
off of the ones we have just
learned.

Polyspots =
Hula Hoops =

Students are keeping

their eyes up, and
making sure they are
not running into
each other.
Students are safely
performing yoga
poses within their
personal space on
the mat.

Students are
correctly
performing yoga
poses (teacher
observation).

today. Who would like to come up real

quick and show the class your favorite
pose? What kind of cues do we have to
remember when doing this pose? I also
heard a lot of great peer feedback
throughout the lesson, complimenting
each other on our poses. Great job,
today, everybody!