UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE

EDUC 330 LESSON PLAN FORMAT

TEACHER
Amber Jarvis

COURSE:
EDUC 330

GRADE
K

LESSON TITLE
Jungle Stretching

DATE OF
PRESENTATION:
May 3rd, 2016

CRN:
1253

INTEGRATED AREAS
SOURCE
Pecentral.org

Biology (Animals)

CONTENT STANDARDS AND CONTENT OBJECTIVES

SUBJECT STANDARDS
1.6 Balance on one, two, three, four, and five body parts.

GOAL OF UNIT
Students will identify each jungle animal and be able to
perform the stretch of them with various body
movements.

1.8 Demonstrate the relationship of under, over, behind,

next to, though, right, up, down, forward, backward, and
in front of by using the body and an object.

MAIN OBJECTIVE OF LESSON

2.3 Identify and describe parts of the body: the head,

shoulders, neck, back, chest, waist, hips, arms, elbows,
wrists, hands, fingers, legs, knees, ankles, feet, and toes.

All students will use their hands, arms, feets and legs
while stretching their muscles (non-locomotor) to form
jungle animals.

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES ADDRESSED

Bodily-Kinesthetic
Intrapersonal
Musical

COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE, AND PSYCHOMOTOR OBJECTIVES

COGNITIVE OBJECTIVES
(What students will know)

AFFECTIVE OBJECTIVES
(Expected student behaviors)

PSYCHOMOTOR OBJECTIVES
(What students will do)

How to correctly identify jungle

animals through non-axial
movement and what muscles are
being used in each stretch

Students recite the different directions Travel in different directions, while

and positions in which they may travel stretching various body parts such as
from place to place.
their arms, back, neck, and legs.

ASSESSMENT
STRATEGIES FOR ASSESSMENT

Teachers observations

All students will work independently while stretching in the form of an animal

All students will be able to bend, stretch, twist, and turn with their body parts

LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
STRATEGIES TO MEET DIVERSIFIED LEARNERS

Students with physical disabilities can demonstrate knowledge of jungle stretching with their arms (if
possible) and make the animal noise along with it.
Students with hearing impairments will be sat close to music in order to feel vibrations of it.
Students who are visual learners will benefit from the demonstration of one of the stretches.
Students that are intrapersonal will enjoy working by themselves while stretching

MATERIALS, EQUIPMENT, and/or TECHNOLOGY NEEDED

1 yoga mat per student

YouTube video

Laptop or stereo with aux cord

STEPS THROUGH THE LESSON

INTO (set the stage; the hook, lesson objectives)

Play Youtube Video of jungle music

background

Welcome adventurers! Were going to be exploring the

jungle today. As most of you know weve been talking
about jungle animals in class. Now well be learning
how to stretch like some of our favorite animals.
1 important rule of the jungle is always be aware of
your surroundings, make sure you and your class mates
arent touching your paws together and take all the room
you need on your mat

RATIONALE (why are you doing this?)

The hook will allow students to make connections of how
jungle animals move and be able to react it.

The more room in between students, the better and less

complications of students touching each other and
interfering with the lesson.

Have every student get a yoga mat and place

them into two rows of ten students.
Every student should have room to do their
stretches and not be touching elbow partners.

THROUGH (instructional input, modeling, checking for

understanding, guided practice)
Im going to be demonstrating each animal, then Ill
have you guys to a set of 5 per stretch we do.

RATIONALE (why are you doing this?)

The teacher demonstration will help students visually
understand what they are supposed to be doing with their
various body parts and how they are stretching that specific
muscle.

Teacher will demonstrate each of the animal

stretches: the cobra, hungry alligators, monkey
arms, parrot wings, hunting lion, and the
elephant walk.
Students can verbally make the noise of the animal of
the stretch their doing.
For safety concerns students WILL not be learning back too

For the cobra, students are laying on their

far, as it can cause a strain in their muscle.
belly (stomach) and raising their upper body
toward the trees.

Hungry alligator stretch. Students will extend

Having the students extend their arms more wide is a
their arms and form it into an alligator mouth.
challenge
of this specific stretch and rotating their hands
Making their mouths open as wide as possible
lets the teacher label the various body parts used and what
and rotating hands if possible. Left hand on
which direction to go in.
top, right hand on bottom, vice versa.
I see that most of us are getting the hang of how
animals act in the jungle, great job! Its time for us to
finally start monkeying around, the monkey arms!

Students will imagine they are monkeys who

are picking bananas from the banana tree and
pulling them down from there.

A challenge that students can do for this is seeing how

fast you can grab the bananas

Students are stretching different parts of their forearm,

arms, and shoulders by doing the monkey arms.

BEYOND (independent practice, further research)

Once teacher demonstrates the jungle

stretches, the PE monitor who helps lead the
stretches will go to the front of class and help
count and switch between stretches.

RATIONALE (why are you doing this?)

To make the lesson more interpersonal for students who
learn best this way of interacting with other students.
Having a student demonstrate it will allow the teacher to
assess the students by walking around seeing them
stretching and their fitness level.