Lesson Plan

 Title: Identifying body levels in space

Grade: Kindergarten/Low elementary 5-7 year olds

Component: Body movements with different parts and how to move them to understand how body and movement takes up space

Objective: Students are able to understand and create different examples of levels and shapes with their body and understand how their body takes up space

Competency: the student can quickly create a shape that accurately follows the verbal directions along with creating their own examples.

Activity: Students practice making large and small shapes, tall and short shapes, and moving and still shapes to understand how their body moves in space. 

Assessment: completion of activity and ability to follow directions and play the game at the end of making shapes on their own. 



20 Minute Lesson Plan

1-5: Stretch/Warm up

Warm up: 1 song with verbal cues how to move around the room

Running, run in slow motion, skip, skip backwards, tall walking, small walking, big steps, small steps, jumping

5-8: Video: Hokey pokey video to introduce isolating different body parts

https://youtu.be/Zh2PalZFs0g?si=cxWdarAj-kTmgGId

8-10:  Identifying how we can move specific parts of body 

Going over how we can isolate movements with arm, head, shoulders, ankle, etc

10-12: Circle game of everyone giving a different movement for body parts and everyone trying

One person gives movement that follows demand, then everyone tries

12-14: Identifying how isolated movements can vary in size and speed

Can move arm big, small, fast, slow, wavy, sharp 

14-16: Circle game of adding a direction with body part, ie: fast, slow, big, small, sharp, soft

Each student given command of body part and adjective and then everyone tries

16-19: Freeze Dance with different movements to practice all the different kinds given

Students do a movvemement and then freeze and look at how they are moving and come up with a different one for the next round


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