A PHE warm-up activity featuring throwing and catching balls in a game of tag! Lesson idea: The lesson would focus on a team sport, preferably basketball, as it involves throwing and catching a ball. The focus would be on working as a team and movement concepts such as spatial awareness, …
Grade: 2 Lesson 4 of 8 Topic: Emotions in Dance Equipment: sound equipment Lesson learning outcomes: ● Students will be able to express their emotional response to different types of music through movement. ● Students will be able to verbalize their connections between their body, their emotions and …
Laurel Apps The lesson that would follow this warm-up would be part of our soccer unit. The students will have been dodging, paying attention to location of taggers, freeing teammates and passing the beanbags with their feet/ blocking beanbags with their feet. All of these skills would be part of …
Brie MacDonald This warm-up would be followed by students, in groups of 4-5, passing a soccer ball between all the members while running down the length of a field. They will already have practiced several different easier passing skills in previous classes. This warmup activity is meant to get students’ …
Eliza Beaudry The lesson that would follow this warm up would be some sort of team sport like basketball or soccer that incorporates sprinting, stopping, and pivoting, as well as cooperation. We will review what an athletic stance is and how this stance makes you 1) have better balance 2) …
Sioned Seeley-Cavers TWO’S COMPANY, THREE’S A CROWD In basketball players are need to be able to dodge defensemen, navigate around moving players, and judge where to pass the ball. In previous lessons students practiced dribbling and shooting hoops. Today’s lesson in basketball, students will learn offensive and defensive skills and …
Katrina Crawshaw WARM-UP: “Sticky Parts” – bean bag balancing exercise This warm-up would precede a 90-minute lesson (or two 45-minute blocks) on balance. We would discover how to be aware of our center gravity when approaching balance poses. We would play with focus to explore why eyesight plays such a …
Hannah Sharples Following warm-up, students will be put into groups of six. Each group will find a hoop and play 2v2 basketball with two students observing. After 3 minutes the games will stop, observers will give feedback on passing and communication, and then switch with one of the pairs. This …
Samantha Einarson As the game Cat and Mouse requires quick movements with lots of directional changes, it is a great warm-up for a basketball lesson. This game involves players keeping their head up, paying attention to their surroundings, and maintaining body control, which are all important in basketball. The lesson …
Tessa Webb This lesson could precede a racquet sport (ie badminton) activity, running activity, or a team sport activity (soccer, football, floor hockey, etc) as it warms up the leg muscles and prepares students for running and moving forward and laterally. Alternatively, it could be used before a low energy …
