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Lesson Directions<\/h4>\n
Anticipatory Set\/Hook
When students walk in, silently begin mimicking their movement, how they walk, and their facial expressions. Mirror different student\u2019s movements. If this is near the beginning of the year, select a few students you know won\u2019t be offended or embarrassed to mimic.<\/p>\n
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TEACHING PRESENTATION:<\/h4>\n
\u2022 Wait for students to notice and ask you what you\u2019re doing. Respond by asking, \u201cDid you know that that\u2019s what you look like when you move? Do you ever think about what you look like when you move?\u201d Begin a discussion of movement.
\u2022 Last class, the anatomy of body movement and how the body moves was discussed. Begin discussion with a review of what we learned last class. Then start talking about what your body looks like when you move. How do you look when you\u2019re running versus when you\u2019re walking versus when you\u2019re sitting? How are those movements different?
\u2022 Give each student a body movement observation worksheet. Instruct the students that you are going into the school gym and they are to watch how the other students are moving and how they move in response to the different activities they are doing. Let them know that they are to record what they observe. On the worksheet, there are different categories for them to observe. They can work by themselves or in groups, which ever they would prefer.
\u2022 Spend 10 or so minutes in the gym observing.
\u2022 Bring students back to the classroom (depending on the class, retake attendance). Ask them what they observed. Ask them to demonstrate what they observed.
\u2022 Ask students if it is easier or harder to mimic someone\u2019s movement than their own. What difficulties arise in imitating movement?
\u2022 Start playing a game of Simon Says by saying \u201cSimon says turn all of your observation worksheets in to the front of the class.\u201d Continue the game, and then say, \u201cSimon Says ________ is the new Simon\u201d and have the students lead each other in Simon Says.
\u2022 Do not limit the Simon Says activities to \u201ctouch your nose.\u201d Let the students explore the whole classroom and all ranges of movement.
\u2022 Put the students into pairs. Tell them that they are to pretend that they are each other\u2019s mirror and that they are to mimic what the other person is doing. Have a pair of students demonstrate what they are to do for the whole class before letting the whole class begin the activity.
\u2022 Walk around the room, evaluating the mirroring.
\u2022 Depending on time, have the students switch partners to gain more practice.<\/p>\n
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CLOSURE:<\/h4>\n
Is it any more difficult to mirror someone instead of imitating them? What are the difficulties? Why would you ever want to mimic or mirror someone\u2019s movement?
\u2022 The goal of this discussion is to get students to think deeper about the activity that they\u2019ve done and to find the value and purpose.<\/p>\n
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ASSESSMENT:<\/h4>\n
Students will receive some points for filling out the observation worksheet. Students will be assessed on their participation in the mirroring activity. If they participated and actively tried to mimic their partner\u2019s movements, than they get participation points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Objective Students will demonstrate their ability to observe and mimic movement by successfully mirroring another student\u2019s movement. Materials Needed You will need a worksheet for each student to record observed body movement. Talk to the P.E. teacher at the school before the lesson and arrange for your class to come in and watch …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3303,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1362\/revisions\/3303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}