Ashley Pasiciel

Fitness Tag
Grade/Subject: PE Gr. 4 Lesson Duration: 30 mins Unit: Tag Games
OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES
General Learning Outcomes:
A) Students will acquire skills through a variety of developmentally appropriate
movement activities; dance, games, types of gymnastics, individual activities
and activities in an alternative environment.
C) Students will interact positively with others.
D) Students will assume responsibility to lead an active way of life.
Specific Learning Outcomes:
 A4-1: Select, perform and refine simple locomotor sequences.
 A4-2: Consistently and confidently perform locomotor skills and combination of
skills, by using elements of body and space awareness, effort and relationships
to a variety of stimuli to improve personal performance.
 A4-3: Select, perform and refine simple non-locomotor sequences.
 A4-4: Consistently and confidently perform non-locomotor skills by using
elements of body and space awareness, effort and relationships to a variety of
stimuli to improve personal performance.
 C4-1: Articulate and demonstrate respectful communication skills appropriate
to context.
 C4-3: Identify and demonstrate etiquette and fair play.
 D4-2: Demonstrate factors that encourage movement.
 D4-3: Follow rules, routines and procedures for safety in a variety of activities.
 D4-4: Participate in, and identify the benefits of, safe warm-up and cool-down
activities.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will:
1) Warm up by participating in a running activity.
2) Safely, participate in a tag game
3) Cool down through stretching exercises.
ASSESSMENT
Observations: Key Questions:
 Watch that students are playing  How can we be safe in the gym?
safely.  What does it mean to be fair?
 Watch that students are bring fair.  How do you play fitness tag?
 Make sure students are using  What is a star jump?
proper form when completing  How do you do jumping jacks?
their fitness task
Written/Performance Assessments:
 Be looking that students are being fair and playing safely.
LEARNING RESOUCES CONSULTED
The Alberta Program of Studies.
MATERIALS & EQUIPTMENT
 9 Hoola Hoops
PROCEDURE
 Ashley Pasiciel

Introduction:
Hook/Attention Grabber: Today we will be playing a new tag game.

Expectations for Learning & Behaviour:

 When you hear the whistle, stop what you are doing.
 Make sure you are playing fairly.
 Be safe when playing – no pushing or hitting anyone if you’re the tagger

Advance Organizer/Agenda:
 Have hoola hoops out.

Transition to Body: First, let’s warm up.

Body:
Learning Activity #1:
 Warm up activity.
 5 minutes of running
Assessments/Differentiation:
 Watch that students are playing fair and safely.

Learning Activity #2:

 Fitness Tag.
 9 hoola hoops will be place throughout the gym.
 3 students will be chosen as taggers.
Rules:
 Taggers aim to tag all the students. If a student is tagged, they must go to a
fitness zone which are the hoops.
 Students must wait inside the fitness zone (hoops) until a peer comes along
and does the specified fitness activity with them. (Ex// 5 start jumps)
 Completing their fitness acidity together frees them from the fitness zone.
 Change the fitness activity at the end of each game.
Assessment/Differentiation:
 Watch that students are playing safely and fairly.

Learning Activity #3:

 Cool down activity.
 Students will spread out around the gym and stretch.
 This will be teacher lead.
Assessment/Differentiation:
 Be sure students are doing stretches safely.

Closure:
Consolidation/Assessment of Learning: Good work!

Transition to Next Lesson: Next class we will play a new tag game