Teaching Demo (Teaching PE in Elementary Grades) | Kimberly Panoga

Summary

In this classroom lesson, the teacher introduces students to locomotor skills such as walking, running, jumping, hopping, and skipping through interactive activities. The class engages in a fun, energizing exercise song and a picture-guessing game to identify various physical movements. Students then learn the definitions and examples of each locomotor skill. Afterward, they participate in group performances to demonstrate their understanding. The lesson concludes with a review, workbook activity, and homework on locomotor movements, followed by a prayer. The session is designed to be engaging, educational, and physically active.

Takeaways

• 😀 The class begins with a prayer to focus the students' minds for the lesson ahead.
• 😀 The teacher encourages students' attendance and motivation for coming to school every day.
• 😀 Classroom rules are set to ensure proper behavior during the lesson (e.g., zipping mouths and raising hands).
• 😀 The teacher engages students with a physical activity, singing and dancing, to energize them before starting the lesson.
• 😀 The class participates in an activity where they guess different physical actions depicted in pictures, such as walking, running, jumping, hopping, and skipping.
• 😀 The teacher introduces locomotor skills, explaining they are movements that use the feet to move the body forward, backward, or sideways.
• 😀 Types of locomotor skills are explained: walking, running, jumping, hopping, and skipping, with examples and demonstrations.
• 😀 Students are shown videos illustrating the movements of walking, running, jumping, hopping, and skipping to reinforce learning.
• 😀 After watching the videos, students demonstrate their understanding by performing the movements in groups assigned to different skills.
• 😀 The teacher concludes the lesson by assigning a follow-up activity in the students' books, with a reminder to review specific pages for future lessons.

Q & A

What is the main topic of the lesson in the transcript?

The main topic of the lesson is 'Locomotor Skills,' which includes various movements like walking, running, jumping, hopping, and skipping.

What are locomotor skills, as described in the lesson?

Locomotor skills are movements where a person moves forward, backward, or sideways using their feet as the base. It involves the transfer of body weight.

What was the first activity the teacher conducted with the students?

The first activity was a picture-guessing game where students guessed different physical movements such as walking, running, jumping, hopping, and skipping based on pictures shown by the teacher.

How did the teacher explain the concept of walking to the students?

The teacher explained walking as the transfer of weight from one foot to the other while moving, as demonstrated in the picture shown.

How is running different from walking?

Running is essentially walking at an increased tempo. The main difference is that running involves moving faster than walking.

What did the teacher say about jumping?

Jumping is a two-footed skill, where both feet are used to jump and land together, as shown in the demonstration.

What is hopping, as explained in the lesson?

Hopping involves jumping from one foot to the other after a brief pause in the air, as demonstrated with a rope.

How is skipping performed, according to the teacher?

Skipping is a combination of a step and a hop with alternating feet after each step, as shown in the video demonstration.

What type of group activity did the students engage in during the lesson?

The students were divided into five groups, each assigned a locomotor skill (walking, running, jumping, hopping, or skipping) to demonstrate in front of the class.

What did the teacher use to assess the students' understanding of the locomotor skills?

The teacher assessed the students' understanding through group demonstrations, where each group performed their assigned locomotor skill for the class.