Lesson Design Template: MAT/Certification Elementary

Candidate Name: Anita Youngman

Host Teacher Name: Erin Jones

School: Government Hill Elementary

Grade Level(s): 1

Date & Time of Lesson: 4-6-16

Length of Lesson: 25 mins.

Topic of Lesson: Yoga stretching

Content Area(s): P.E.

# of Students: 19

Materials including technology: https://youtu.be/DvkCzVvCOeg, sun salutation chant sheets for each
student

Alaska Standards:

AK Standard C
Participate regularly in physical activity:
3. Attempt to perform new movement skills and activities.
AK Standard D
Apply fitness concepts to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of
personal fitness:
2. Utilize age-appropriate stretching techniques to increase flexibility.
C.C. RL.1.10 With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of
appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Profile of Your Students (cultural, language, developmental and behavioral characteristics):

Students come from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds. The socio-economic status of families tends to be
low. Behavior management is a factor that requires careful attention to pacing, along with a variety of methods
for teaching. Three students have IEPs and a couple more are being evaluated for IEPs. Six students are
considered English Language Learners.
STAGE ONE

STAGE TWO:

Objective(s):
1. I will use my body to recall different yoga poses.
2. I will recall and follow along in a choral reading of
poem/chant.

Student Assessment:
1. Students will take part in a choral reading of a poem/
chant.
2. Students will use their bodies to create different yoga
poses.

STAGE THREE: Opportunities to Learn

Introduction/Hook: Students move tables to make room for yoga.

Procedure and products

Differentiation/Accommodations/Modifications

1. Students have the three minute challenge of moving

chairs and tables as practiced.
2. Go over our working agreements.
3. Read sun salutation chant, talk about how all living
things need the sun to live.
4. Practice breathing in and out.
5. Model sun salutation with the students watching and
reading sun salutation.
6. Practice cobra pose.
7. Practice downward dog.
8. Go over each move slowly checking to see that students
are doing the poses correctly. Use students to model
and show students how to do the salutation.
9. Do the sun salutation together as a class.
10.Do the sun salutation in fast motion.
11.One minute to move all desks and chairs back into
working position.

Alyric participation by demonstrating downward dog.

Modified poses for those students who are not as flexible,
not having to touch toes etc.

Closure: Discussion, how do you feel now after the salutation? Does your body feel relaxed? stretched? How does your
brain feel?