Ed 3700

Kaitlyn Zurrin
001182169
November 31, 2017

Unit Plan:
5 Days of Christmas Activities

I have chosen to plan a unit that would take place the week prior to Christmas/Winter

vacation, in a grade 3 Phys Ed class. This could also work in the majority of elementary physical

education classes. The week before Christmas is a little bit hectic, and students tend to lose

focus and the holiday approaches. Not only do the students get excited, but the schedule

becomes a little shuffled around as well. Students may be sick, leaving earlier for the break, or

because other Christmas related activities are taking place. There also may be events

happening in the gym, where this unit would need to take place earlier. This unit plan will be

great to engage students and to celebrate the holiday spirit with Christmas related activities.

The activities range from games, teamwork activities, and include a little bit of holiday dance. It

would also be a fun way to assess concepts that you have already covered in the first half of the

school year.

The majority of the outcomes that hope to be met during this unit is teamwork and

cooperation, and being active. Certain games will include skills such as balance, running, and

dance skills. However, the main goals of this week’s unit plan is to keep students moving and

working together. I will assess this unit two ways. Students will wear pedometers throughout

the unit, and keep track of how many steps they can accumulate throughout the week. They

will keep track of their steps and give themselves daily self-evaluations on a worksheet

throughout the unit. This worksheet booklet is included at the end of this until plan.
Lesson #1 –
December 18 Gingerbread Tag – 40 min
GLOs: A &C Learning Activities:

 This first lesson will begin with notifying students what the unit
will consist of. Students will be taught how to use pedometers
and how to keep track and self-evaluate themselves. They will set
a goal at the beginning of the week for how many steps they will
take.

 Gingerbread tag is similar to British bulldog, but played with four

corners.
 One student is designated “It” or “The Baker”
 She/he stands in the middle of the gym and yells “Run run as fast
as you can, you can’t catch me I’m the gingerbread man”
 Other students have to run from their corner to one of the other
three mats where they are safe.
 If students are caught, they help out the baker until there are no
gingerbread left.
 Modification can be made to change up the game. Modes of
transportation could change to skipping, hopping, crawling, etc.

Gingerbread Tag

SLOs: Assessment:
 A3-1 - Observation
 C3-3 - Pedometers
- Daily Self-evaluation
Instructional Safety: It is important to make sure students know how to safely jump on
Strategies: mats, and to watch out for other students when they jump on the mats.

MOT: Equipment:
TGFU  High Jump mats OR numerous smaller mats in each corner.
 Christmas Music for background – When music stops students will
gather around the teacher.
Lesson #2 –
December 19 Elf Express – 40 min

GLOs: Learning Activities:

 C  Elf Express – Students are being trained for Christmas eve,
where they will assist on delivering presents.
 Intro: Students are taught how to move their sleighs. There
should be even groups of students, each groups have
matching colored hula hoops. Students move their sleigh by
picking up the back hula hoop and moving it to the front.
They can practice by moving from one side of the gym to the
other.
 1: Stage one: Collecting Toys. students must move from one
side of the gym to the other, but whilst picking up their
colour beanbag, which is scattered around the gym. They
must keep their feet in the hoops.
 2. Stage Two: Delivering Toys: Students must put one toy of
their colour in each chimney (Hula Hoop), Distributed around
the gym. Then finish behind the line in the gym.

Elf Express

SLOs: Assessment:
 C3-1 - Students will again record their pedometer steps, as well as
 C3-5 self-evaluate themselves for the day.
- Observation
Instructional Safety:
Strategies:
TGFU
MOT: Equipment:
Holiday theme, plus  Bean Bags – One for each student
students trying to  Hula hoops – One for each student + chimneys
meet their step goals  Christmas Music – Controller app.
should be
motivating.
 Music can be
used for
management,
when music
stops
 students
stop.

Lesson #3 –
December 20 Snowman Building: 40 min
GLOs: Learning Activities:
 A  Students will be divided into teams
 C  Materials such as Hula hoops, hockey sticks, bean bags, jump
ropes, hats, gloves, scarves, balls of many sizes, rubber rings,
Frisbees, poly-spots, rackets, and anything else you might have in
your supplies that would work to help build a snowman, will be
organized in a pile at the end of the gym.
 Students will have a couple minutes to plan what they may want
their snowman to look like.
 Students will run one at a time to collect one item and bring it to
their team.
 They can build it as they bring it back, or they can build it once
they thing they have all the materials they need.
 When students have completed their snowman they can sit and
they can conduct a gallery walk of all the other students’ snowmen

This could also be done by dressing up a student as a snowman. You

could have material such as scarves, hats, mittens etc.

Snow Man Building

SLOs: Assessment:
 A3-11 - Student again are encouraged to work as a team and cooperate in
 C3-4 productive and kind ways.
- They will mark down their pedometer steps and
Instructional Safety: Make sure materials are out of the way when students are
Strategies: building their winter scenes/snowmen

MOT: Equipment:
-Holiday theme  Any equipment from equipment room that could be used for
should be snowman building
motivating  Christmas music – Can be used for motivation as well as
-Students management tool.
should try and
be meeting their
unit pedometer
goal.
Lesson #4 –
December 21 Whoville Strikes Back Obstacle Course Relay
GLOs: Learning Activities:
 A  Split class into groups or teams so there are 4 to 5 in a group. Set
 C up obstacle courses from one end of the gym to the other, using
various equipment for each group of students. Make one obstacle
path for each team. The path starts with stepping stones, then jump
ropes, hurdles, and cones.
 Start the class by talking about the dr. Seuss book, the Grinch.
Discuss what happens in the story.
 Tell students that they are residents of whoville and they are
going to steal the presents back from the Grinch.
 They will need to get through some obstacles to get there.
 Students will “drive” to Mt. Crumpet on scooters and then send
them back to the group
 They will finish the rest on foot. They will have to:
o Continue up the winding road (walking on jump ropes)
o Go over the log (leaping over a hurdle),
o under the branches (under a hurdle)
o through the trees (weaving between cones)
 They can only carry gifts on their heads and walk straight back to
Their team. If students drop a bean bag, they go back to the Grinch’s
cave.
 The relay is over when students have all the gifts back

Whoville Strike Back Full Instructions

SLOs: Assessment:
 A3-10 - Pedometer
 C3-3 - Self assessment
- Observation
Instructional Safety: Students should know to safely go though obstacle course as
Strategies: well as use scooters.
TGFU
MOT: Equipment:
-Holiday theme  5 cones, 2 jump ropes, 2 hurdles, 12 bean bags, one scooter, and 4
should be stepping stones for each group of 4-5 students
motivating  Christmas Music
-Students should
try and be
meeting their
unit pedometer
goal.

Lesson #5 –
December 22 12 Days of Christmas Dance:
GLOs: Learning Activities:
 A  Students will learn and compete the 12 Days of Christmas Dance
 Instructions and actions are in the link below
 This could be used to introduce students to the dance unit, that
may take place when they are back to school in January.

12 Days Dancercise

 As this is the last day of the Unit, students should reflect on their
pedometer scores, as well as fill out their final self assessments.

SLOs: Assessment:
 A3-9 - Pedometer and Dance worksheet
- Observation
Instructional Safety:
Strategies:
Direct
Instruction
MOT: Equipment:
Holiday theme  Music
should be  You could have the words of the song on the whiteboard.
motivating
-Students
should try and
be meeting their
unit pedometer
goal.
 Name:__________________________

My step goal for this week of

Christmas Activities is _____________ steps.

How would you rate yourself on the following areas?

Following Directions

Having a positive attitude

Cooperating with others

Being Respectful to myself and

Others
Giving my Best Effort

Today I took ___________ Steps!

How would you rate yourself on the following areas?

Following Directions

Having a positive attitude

Cooperating with others

Being Respectful to myself and

Others
Giving my Best Effort

Today I took ___________ Steps!

How would you rate yourself on the following areas?

Following Directions

Having a positive attitude

Cooperating with others

Being Respectful to myself and

Others
Giving my Best Effort

Today I took ___________ Steps!

How would you rate yourself on the following areas?

Following Directions

Having a positive attitude

Cooperating with others

Being Respectful to myself and

Others
Giving my Best Effort

Today I took ___________ Steps!

How would you rate yourself on the following areas?

Following Directions

Having a positive attitude

Cooperating with others

Being Respectful to myself and

Others
Giving my Best Effort

Today I took ___________ Steps!

During these 5 Days of Christmas PE I took ________ Steps!

How would you rate this unit?