Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Gymnastics

Name: Hayley Baron

Content Area: Physical Education

Grade Level: 8th grade

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

1.5 Demonstrate fundamental gymnastic/tumbling skills.
1.6 Create and perform a routine using fundamental gymnastic/tumbling skills, locomotor and nonlocomotor movement patterns,
and the elements of speed, direction, and level.
Big Ideas/Unit Goals:
Students will be able to participate in a sport that it different from the "traditional" games that are played in Physical Education.
They will be able to gain more body control, flexibility, and balance. They will also be able to learn basic gymnastics tumbling
skills, and will use that knowledge at the end of the unit to create an enjoyable routine.

Unit Summary:

In this unit, we will be learning basic tumbling skills that are used in gymnastics. Students will not only be learning about the
history of gymnastics and the different elements, but they will also be learning to perform the skills. Throughout the unit, there
will be different assignments that will showcase your knowledge and performance of the skills.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level:
Quiz: How much do you know about
gymnastics?

Formative:
Lesson 1: Guided Notes.
Lesson 2: Webercise Assignment.
Lesson 3: Graphic Organizer.
Performance Assessment: How well can
you perform the skill using the critical
elements.

Summative:
Final Quiz: How much have you learned
about the sports and the basic tumbling
skills?
Create a Routine: You will create a
routine that incorporate the skills that
we have learned in a fun and entertaining

routine.

Lesson 1
Lesson Activities:

Student Learning
Objective:

Acceptable Evidence
(Assessments):

Students will be able

to identify the critical
elements that
correspond to the
skills being taught.
Lesson 2

Guided notes
worksheet will be
used as the
assessment for this
assignment.

Student Learning
Objective:

Acceptable Evidence:

Lesson Activities:

Students will answer

the questions that are
provided on the
webercise worksheet.

Students will use different websites to complete the different questions that are
asked on the worksheet.

Students will
choreograph their
own routine which will
include the skills
being taught.

Students will view the lecture on gymnastics. They will use a guided notes
worksheet to fill in the acceptable answers for the questions that are asked on the
worksheet.
Students will learn about the different skills that we will be learning in class and the
critical elements of each skill.

Students will view videos about creating a gymnastics floor routine.

Students will begin to design their routine by picking out the different skills that
they will be using in their routine.

Lesson 3
Student Learning
Objective:
Students will be able
to identify the critical
elements that
correspond to the
skills being taught.

Acceptable Evidence:

Lesson Activities:

Students will
complete a graphic
organizer that will
demonstrate their
knowledge of the
skills they are
learning.

Students will locate or record a video of a beginner performing a skill we are

learning.

Unit Resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9HxqFzHAT4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGU0ltWTWDo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2G4O8R-SFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Z5Ag9AGgY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBynK6UoT24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N00baxvOUdk

Students will analyze the movements of that video.

Students will compare those skills to more advanced skills and explain how they are
related.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIzCqy-R9oo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIzCqy-R9oo
https://usagym.org/pages/home/publications/technique/1999/3/whygymnastics.pdf
http://gymnastics.isport.com/gymnastics-guides/history-of-gymnastics

Useful Websites:
https://usagym.org
http://gymnastics.about.com/