SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE - DAILY LESSON PLAN

Name: Vincent Catania Date: 9/4/2018 Time: 9:05-11:15 School: Liberty Elementary Lesson#: 1 Facilities: Gymnasium
Size: 20-25 Grade: 3-5 Unit/Theme: Chasing Fleeing Dodging Generic Level: Pre-Control
Equipment: Bowling Pins, Cones
Focus of the Lesson: Fleeing, Chasing, Dodging

STUDENT PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES (SPO); MA CF + National Standard(s)/Grade Level Outcomes; Task #s where content is taught; Task # where
objective is assessed:
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

(P) Demonstrate appropriate use of chasing, fleeing, and dodging in the activities and use a variety of locomotor skills in the tasks (NSGLO S1.E1.4/5a)(MACF
2.2)(All Activities)
(C) Identify everyday uses for all skills practiced in the lesson, at the closure of the lesson (NSGLO S2.E5.4a)(MACF 2.5)(Closure)
(A) Participates in an honest manner when tagged throughout each activity (NGSLO S4.E1.4)(MACF 2.4)(Activities)

Check each objective: Is it specific? Is it achievable? Is it developmentally appropriate?

TEACHER PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES - During the lesson the teacher will:

1. Be sure all students have a general understanding of the activity prior to engaging in the activity.

2. Keep their back to the wall in order to be able to foresee any potential harmful or negligent situations.

3. Completely go over all RRE’s in order to ensure a safe and positive learning environment during the introduction.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS - What are the safety concerns? What is unique about the students in this class?
1. Not all students may fully understand the differences in all skills so being aware of struggling students will benefit the students learning
2. Review proper tagging strategies to avoid negligent acts

REFERENCES:

Courtier, L., Chepko, S., Holt/Hale, S., National Standards and Grade Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education. Human Kinetics, Champaign, Il. 2014.

Massachusetts Comprehensive Health Curriculum Frameworks, Oct 1999

Graham, G. Elliot, E. Palmer, S. Teaching Children and Adolescents Physical Education. Human Kinetics,
Champaign Il. 2016.
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Time Sequence of Lesson Organization Reflections
0-5 Introduction: Students will come into the class and sit in their squad
lines, on their way in the teacher will make sure all students are
appropriately dressed. SSSSS
 Teacher will introduce self and goal of the day: SSSSS
 WALT: Practice aspects of fleeing, chasing, and dodging. SSSSS
Safety: Teacher will acknowledge the boundaries to the activity area, T SSSSS
and ask students to state the rules of the class. SSSSS
Signals: Teacher will address the signals: 3, 2, 1 Freeze, Ready Go.
Purpose: Teacher will state the purpose of fleeing, chasing and
dodging, and will ask students how they might be able to utilize
fleeing chasing and dodging (the reasoning will be reinstated in
debriefs)
5-6 Transition: Teacher will dismiss students to move from squad lines to
personal space for the warm up
6-9 Warm Up: Students will line up for sharks and minos: T S S S S S
 2 sharks will tell the minos to cross the ocean, when a mino is S S S S s S
tagged, they become seaweed and will stand in place, if a S s S S
new mino is caught in the seaweed they will also become S S S S
seaweed. Final 2 people will be the new sharks. S S S
S S

9-10 Transition: Students will be selected to transition to the baseline SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

based on shirt color for the next instruction and activity.
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10-20 Activity 1: Batman and Robin Tag: SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
There will be 2 students that are villains, the rest of the students are ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
civilians. The teacher will select 2 students to be superheroes. If a
villain tags a student, the student must freeze, until a superhero tags
them (secretly). If all superheros are tagged, than the villians have
taken over the city.

Extension Up: Only allow one superhero T

Extension Down: Allow more than 2 superheros

21 Transition: Teacher will stop the game and ask for student helpers to
set up the next activity, while the teacher talks to students about the
previous activity
21-33 Activity 2: Bowling pin tag X X X
The class will be split up into two teams, each team will have 3
bowling pins. The objective of the game is to run to the opponent’s
side, knock down a pin, gently with the hand, and make it back to SSSSSSSSSSSS
your side before you get tagged. Students may only get tagged while
on the opponents side, if a student is tagged they must go to jail and
await either a teacher led jailbreak, or a partner to come and free them
for a free trip back to their side
SSSSSSSSSSSS
Extension Up: Students will have to bring the bowling pin back to
their side and put it on the line. First team to have 5 bowling pins
wins X X X

Extension Down: Students will be competing to knock down only one

bowling pin.

33-34 Transition: Teacher will have students collect equipment and

transition to the center circle in groups of 5.
35-40 Closure: Turn to the person next to you and discuss the different
games played today, and identify which game allowed was the most SSS SS SS
enjoyable. S S
S S
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S S
S S
S S
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