Physical Education Lesson
Teacher: Iris Torgunrud
Activity: Pathways
Date: November 18, 2009
Grade: Kindergarten
Activity Purpose:
- To have children moving in different pathways and have the understanding that pathways
involve different forms of changing or not changing directions
- To have children moving in different locomotions along different pathways
- To have children understand the difference between a zig-zag, a curved and a straight
pathway
Possible Learnings:
- Directions (left, right, straight)
- Pathways can consist of different types of paths (curved, zig-zag and straight)
- Body and space awareness
- Different characters move in different ways
CEL’s:
- Personal and Social Values and Skills (respecting other’s space)
- Critical and Creative thinking (moving like different animals)
Equipment / materials:
- Painters tape for floor pathways
- Freeze Drum
- Pathway cards (visuals—zig-zag, curved and straight for the beginning of each pathway)
- Light cards for the floor
Advanced Preparation:
- Have different pathways taped onto the floor
- Have pathway cards created (zig-zag, curved and straight)
- Have teacher’s pathway card created
Adaptive Dimension:
- Each portion of the lesson can be shortened or lengthened, depending upon skill and success
rate
- Instead of using multiple locomotions, just walking could be used if students are struggling to
stay on the path and not run into each other.
- If students are grasping the concepts quickly, I will add different directions to their instructions
(move backwards, sideways)
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Set: (up to 4 minutes)
- What does this look like? (1)
- Discuss the differences between zig-zag, curved and
straight pathways using flash cards
- Which has no turns? Sharp turns? Round turns?
- Review “Freeze Drum”
- Walk down the hallway to the gym
- Hold up three pathway cards and ask which type we
took to get to the gym
- Model different pathways
- (Don’t worry about the tape) Have students move in
each type of pathway—curved, zig-zag and straight—
around the gym once and meet in the center
Development: (15-20 minutes)
Task 1: (5 minutes)
- Draw attention to the pathways taped on the floor (see
attached sheet) Show with your hands what the
pathways look like
- How many of each?
- Model finding a space on a pathway, walking along the
pathway, and, walking back to the green “start” circle
of the same path
- Have students do the same - WALKING – on the same
path then sit down after 2 times
Classroom Management
Strategies:
- The Freeze Drum is a consistent
classroom management tool which
the students have seen before, and
will respond to as before
- Ask what their normal routines
are for coming into the gymnasium
- Introduce students to lights
- Green start circle, yellow as they
go through, red when they get to
the end. (keep speed down)
- Have students switch to a NEW pathway and walk along
that one (alone)
- Now have students move in different locomotions on
their pathway (hoping, skipping, leaping, slithering,
sliding, tip-toeing)
- Ask for other suggestions
- Think about different levels
Task two: (10 minutes)
- Once again, move to a new pathway.
- Do we use pathways like this when we are walking to
school, or on the play ground, or in our house?
- Do you think animals would move on pathways like we
just did?
- Talk about animals, and how some animals might move.
Have students try to move like an animal they chose.
- What kind of animal do you want to move like? (GIVE
EVERYONE A CHANCE IF THEY WANT)
- Have one child demonstrate and then everyone try.
- Kangaroo? What about a mouse? And Elephant? (Hop,
low to the ground, very wide and heavy
- Ask all students for an example (if
they want to share)
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**if extra time allows**
Task 3 (4 minutes)
- Talk about the lines on the floor (what are they for?)
- Look at some of the lines… where do they go?
- Find a place to start, and make a pathway to another
part of the gymnasium.
- Think of the different ways we moved today. Sometimes
we were very low to the ground, and sometimes we
were very quiet on our feet.
- Travel back on a different path.
Closure: (4 minutes)
- What three kinds of pathways did we talk about today?
(curved, z-z & straight)
- Who can tell me one special point about a z-z pathway?
- Have one student demonstrate a z-z path.
- Who can tell me one special point about a curved
pathway?
- Have one student demo. a curved path.
- Who can tell me one special point about a straight
pathway?
- Have one student demo. a straight path.
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Professional Development Plan
Topic P.E. Pathways
Date November 18
Teacher Iris Torgunrud
Observer _________________
1. Professional Target
2. Steps to Achieve Target
To give clear directions as well as modelling what I
with the students to do so all students understand
what they are to do.
I will give only one or two directions at a time.
I will model what I would like my students to do,
and have one or two students model the direction.
I will check for understanding by asking students to
repeat my directions.
3. Instructions for Observer: (Be Specific) - Are the directions I am giving clear? Am I giving too
many or too few directions at a time? Please make note of the directions students are
understanding and following well, and make note of the directions students are not
understanding or following.
4. Data Collection:
a) Clarity of directions:
b) Directions students follow:
c) Directions students not following:
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