Informational Lesson Plan Tool

Topic: Movement in the Classroom

Learning Goal: To provide knowledge about movement in the classroom and why it is so
beneficial to students.

Learning Objectives: To show future educators why they should incorporate movement into their
school days by providing them with statistics and examples that they can use in their future
classrooms.

Audience: Classmates

Instructional Timing Detailed Content Materials Media

Content Needed Utilized
Introduction: 3 Dance fitness warm-up Open floor Speaker
Dance minutes space
Large Group 8 Explain cognitive and Promethean Promethean
Activity: Benefits minutes physical benefits by having Board linked to board
of Movement students walk to whiteboard solstice
labeled “cognitive” or
“physical” based on their Open floor
beliefs about the statistics space

Labeled
whiteboards

Transition 1 minute Count off by 2’s using a Open floor N/A

jump or squat to distinguish space
groups

Jumpers : group 1
Squatters: group 2
 10 Introduce and review the Laptop Go Noodle
Group 1 : minutes benefits of brain breaks access
Movement through
transition Explain how to adapt brain
breaks to student
demographic

Explain how teachers can

ensure students with
disabilities will participate
in transitions

Present water cycle video

on GoNoodle

Reflect how to use Go

Noodle videos for different
learning environments

Transition: 1 minute Give students options on Floor space N/A

Move to other how they want to move to
group the other group by moving
like their favorite animal,
athlete, or artist
Group 2 : 10 Provide a brief summary of White Board
Movement through minutes why it is important to use
Curriculum movement in curriculum Worksheet with N/A
sample
Show students simple math sentences using
problems and direct students punctuations
to gather in groups that were
equivalent to the answer of
the problem

Read sentences from sheet

and students replicate
ending punctuation with
their body

Brainstorm use of
movement in science and
history

Transition: 2 Ask students to find a seat. Open floor Speaker

Cool Down minutes Lead deep breathing and space
positive thinking exercise to
calm students’ brains and
bodies for discussion

Reflection and 5 Explain the example lesson Chairs N/A

Discussion minutes plan on the worksheet and
ask students to brainstorm Whiteboards
ways to incorporate with discussion
movement into the lesson questions
for the appropriate age
group