Lesson Plan

Name: Maria Grasse

Lesson Title or Subject/Topic: Beginning Yoga Poses
Unit: Yoga
Date: 09/09/15
Estimated Time/Length of Lesson: 30 minutes
Grade Level: 4th Grade
Central Focus
What is the
Central Focus for
the content in the
learning segment?

Content
Standards
What standard(s)
are most relevant
to the learning
goals?

During this lesson, which is focused on beginning yoga poses, students will be learning how
to identify several benefits of using yoga as a way to increase flexibility for a healthy active
life.

National P.E. Standards:

Physical Education Standard 6: Values physical activity for a health,
enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and/or social interaction.
Health Education Standard 3: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health
enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks.

Include SHAPE
Standards and
WI Content
Standards.

Wisconsin State P.E. Standards:

Student
Learning
Goal(s)/
Objective(s)

LEARNING GOALS
Learn flexibility.
Learn how yoga has many health benefits.
OBJECTIVES
Psychomotor - The fourth grade students will be able to perform 10-12 beginner
yoga poses.
Cognitive The fourth grade students will be able to connect health benefits to
yoga. (ACADEMIC LANGUAGE USED)
Affective - The third grade students will be able to cooperate together as a whole
class and perform at least three different yoga poses the instructor instructs the class
to do.
The students will be spaced appropriately so no one is injured will doing yoga poses and
they will have their own personal space while being monitored by the instructor.

What are the

specific learning
goal(s) for
student in this
lesson?
Safety
Statement

Assessment of
Learning
Describe your
formative and
summative
assessments you
will use.

Standard 6. Values physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge,

self-expression, and/or social interaction

Sight reading of words they will be learning for the day by looking on the board.
Asking Essential questions.
What are three things you learned about how yoga contributes to health?
What was hard about the activities you did today?
What was easy about the activities you did today?
What were two key words you learned today?
Are yoga poses used anytime else in daily life or other sports?
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Learning
Environment/
Behavior
Expectations
What procedures
will you use to
ensure students
are safe, on task
and engaged?
What might
happen that you
might not
expect?

Some students may have trouble with flexibility and get frustrated easily. Instructor will be
walking around and encouraging individuals. Instructor may possibly have the class take a
break from activity if students are getting too frustrated.
Keep students on task.
Have clear instructions.
Keep the lesson flowing, smooth transitions to each yoga pose.
Expectations: If student is off task the instructor will hand a stop sign that says Please stop
what youre doing and make a better choice. The student must hand stop sign back when
ready and tell instructor how they will make a better choice.
Students may not stay in their own space and may go onto others mats and could possibly
harm another student.

Instructional Strategies and Learning Tasks

Description of what the teacher (you) will be doing and/or what the students will be doing.
Launch/
Instant activity: Stretching body to ensure that muscles dont get over used
Motivational Set
and stretched during yoga poses.
___3-5____ Minutes
Ask students if they know why stretching is important?
How will you start the
lesson to engage and
motivate students in
learning?
Instruction: (Body of
the lesson)
___18-21_ Minutes
Write the step by step
Teaching
procedure/progression
here.
What will you say and
do? What questions
will you ask?
How will you engage
students to help them
understand the
concepts?
What will students do?

Tasks
(Extensions)
activities for the
whole class.
Example: Hit the
ball over to your
partner 10 times.

Cues
(refinements)
Simple secrets to
improve
performance.
Example: Hand in
the cookie jar.

Challenges :
(Applications)More game like
chances to practice
the same tasks at
the same difficulty
level. Example: In
90 seconds see
how many times
you can hit the ball
to your partner.

Modifications:
Add modifications
to make the tasks
easier and harder
according to the
skill level of the
students.

Demonstration #1:

Activity 1: Learning beginner yoga poses:

1. Instructor will demonstrate all the different beginner yoga poses
- Upward facing dog
- Downward facing dog
- Childs pose
- Cat pose
- Cow pose
- Right triangle
- Half moon left/right
- Half cobra
- Low lunge

2. Students will be on their own mats doing the poses

(7-9 minutes)

TRANSITION: Have students look to front. Ask them if they are

comfortable with the poses and if they are ready to move on to
putting them all together.
(1 minute)
Demonstration #2:

Activity 2: Putting the poses together:

1. Yoga session putting all the poses together
I will play calming music while I instruct the students on yoga poses
(7-9 minutes)

TRANSITION: Have students stand up and group them off by color.

Have each group skip to a different corner of the gym
(1 minute)
Demonstration #3:

If time allows we will proceed with the last activity.

Activity 3: Form your own yoga pose:
1. Students will develop their own yoga poses
Student will then show the class their favorite pose out of the poses
they made up
(7-9 minutes)

TRANSITION:
I will stop activity after 7-9 minutes and have students meet in
center of the gym for Closure discussion.
Closure
___3____ Minutes

Students will gather in a circle and answer the essential questions about the lesson
today. Students must verbally as a class answer three questions.

How will you end the

lesson?
Write out the questions
that relate to your
learning goals and
objectives.
Questions that Check
For Understanding
(CFUs)

What was hard about these activities today? What was easy about these activities
today? What sports or physical activities would flexibility and yoga be important for?
How can we be successful in Activity 1, 2, 3? What was challenging to you? What
was easy to you? Is it easy to work in small groups? How does yoga have health
benefits?

Hook to next lesson

The next class we will be using the communication and cooperation skills you have
learned today and transfer these skills to a new activity that we will play.

Differentiation
Gifted/Talented Students: N/A
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Language Differences (ELL): N/A

Learning Styles/Preferences: Will be giving verbal cues and visual demonstrations on
simplifying and modifying the yoga poses.
Materials
What exact
materials/equipment
does the teacher need
for this lesson?

Yoga or gymnastic mats

What materials do the

students need for this
lesson?

Students do not need anything except tennis shoes for safety.

Academic Language Demand(s):

What content
1.
specific terms
(vocabulary) do
students need to
support learning of
the learning
objective for this
lesson
What specific
way(s) will
students need to
use language
(reading, writing,
listening and/or
speaking) to
participate in
learning tasks and
demonstrate their
learning for this
lesson?

Yoga - a Hindu spiritual and discipline, including breath control, simple

meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures, it is widely practiced for health
and relaxation.

ATTACHMENTS

None

Namaste - A gesture is an acknowledgment of the soul in one by the soul in another and
literally means I bow to you.
Working in groups.
Listen and watch the teacher to learn the poses

Resources:
List references and
Other Resources
used to support or
develop the lesson.

Physical Best Activity Guide by Laura L. Borsdorf and Lois A. Boeyink