Adrianna Lonick

Schedule of Activities:

Level – 3-5 year olds

 

Length – 30 minutes

 

Accompanist – ipod

 

Genre – General movement

 

Methods/Strategies:                                     

           

3 MINUTES: warm up with music

5 MINUTES: asking about animals, showing pictures, asking how they move

15 MINUTES: representing animals across the room

7 MINUTES : ask students to one by one show us their favorite animal and the movement that they have chosen to go along with it.

 

 

Learning Objective:  Key Understanding(s) you intend students to obtain):

 

Students explore movement paired with music. Students explore the use of their bodies to make animal shapes and mimic behaviors. Students will learn how to...

• Move in their own way to represent an animal

• Explore movement paired with music

• Follow movement by observation and matching body movement to music

Assessment Evidence:

How will you check to see whether your class has met your learning objectives?

• Asking some animals that the students already know

 

• Watching them walk across the room in their own individual ways to represent the corresponding animal

 

• Observing students following loose direction

 

 

Individual Accountability  (Summative)

How will you check to see if individuals have acquired the knowledge/skills you expected them to learn?

 

• Watching them walk across the room in their own individual ways to represent the corresponding animal

 

• Students move to the sides of the room to music

• Students are moving in a stationary position to music

• Students move using up and down motions to music

 

Learning Plan:

 

What key vocabulary/language will students need to know to meet the learning objective?

 

• Animal names

• Familiar with animal behavior

 

 

How will you teach this key vocabulary to enable students to meet the learning objective?

 

• Ask what animals they already know. Bring in pictures of animals. If an animal arises that a student doesn’t know have pictures ready and explain what that animal is/where it lives/etc.

 

What is the Essential/Guiding Question(s) for this Lesson? (It should correlate to your learning objective.)

Guiding students to explore the movement of their bodies using rhythm, tempo, and familiar behavior of animals

 

 

How will you differentiate for all the learners (ELL, Sp. Ed., poverty, gifted, etc.) in your class? Differentiation Options: questions, stems, sentence frames, strategies, etc.

 

• Students decide how far they would like to take the direction so that it applies to their level of learning

• That may be doing exactly what I do in the warm up, or just moving and stopping in the time of the music. In the animal game they might Ham it up, or they might just mimic what the other children are doing

 

 

Materials/Resources Required:

• Music player

• Large open space