Physical Education Lesson Plan
TITLE: $10 for a Bone
GRADEs: 1-12
Standard: 3 Benchmark: B
Integration Area (s): Reading and Health
Equipment Needed/materials: Skeleton and envelopes.
Lesson/Procedures: Engage in regular physical activity inside of the school to meet national recommendations for daily physical activity.
1. Warm-up, (LOCOMOTOR SKILLS):
a) Distribute pedometers.
b) Have students begin walking around cones in a counterclockwise direction.
c) When the music stops students sit down in a listening position or freeze.
d) When music begins students begin to perform one of the following locomotor movements for 30 seconds: Gallop, Slide, Skip, Hop, Jump, Walk, Leap, and Jog.
e) At the end of the 30 seconds, students walk in a clockwise direction.
f) The walking and locomotor skills are alternated for 30 seconds each for approximately 5-10 minutes.
2. Purpose of Activity: Students will recognize and recall the different bones in the human body.
3. Preparation of materials:
a) Teachers make 6 copies and laminate the Skeleton and place in a large envelope labeled 1-6.
b) Each Skeleton is cut into pieces that represent the human body puzzle that is attached (pieces of skeleton is on 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper).
c) Copy and laminate up to 200 $1 bills.
d) 8-10 physical activity stations of your choice.
e) One large Skeleton put together and place on poster board.
f) One sample and laminated 8 ½ x 11 size Skeleton for each team as a cheat sheet for younger students.
4. Procedures:
a) Set up 8-10 physical activity station surrounding the perimeter of the gym.
b) Have 4-6 buckets or crates in the middle of the gym separated evenly for each team.
c) Divide students into groups of 4-6 teams with 4-6 members in each more teams and/or members for middle and high school.
d) Teacher explains and discusses Skeleton, (teacher uses the poster size puzzle of the Skeleton for the teaching prop).
e) Select a money collector for each team.
f) All team members selects a different activity station and performs a minimum of 10 repetitions at that station selected station.
g) When students are finished with the 10 reps at their station they go to the fitness bank (teacher or selected student that cannot participate in the day’s physical education class) and request to have one dollar (May I please have a dollar).
h) The student returns to their team area and gives the dollar to their team’s money collector.
i) After the teams money collector collects $10 dollars they go to fitness banker with the $10 and asks to buy a piece of the Skeleton in their team’s Skeleton envelope.
j) The money collector selects a piece of the Skeleton puzzle from their team’s envelope and takes it back to their team area and starts to build their team’s Skeleton.
k) When a team’s money collector is exercising at a station or buying a piece of the puzzle the other team members can deposit their dollars in the team bucket/crate.
l) The team that builds the entire Skeleton is the winner.
5. Tips
a) If the class is running short on time the teacher can reduce the amount per bone, ($5 per piece)
b) If there are uneven teams the teacher can have some teams pay less when they have less team members.
c) Each team can rotate the role of the team’s money collector.
d) Have injured team members or who can physically participate be the fitness banker.
e) Ensure that all team members from each team has a chance to assist in building the Skeleton.
f) Ensure that each team has a copy of the cheat sheet of the Skeleton especially for the younger students.
g) Use music to start and stop the activity.
h) Use pedometers to increase the level of movement during the activity.
i) Color code each Skeleton for each team.
j) Enlarge all the bones to increase the size of the skeleton.