5/23/2013

Early Childhood Education

Learning Experience Template

Name: Lauren Joines Lesson Title: Movement Cube

Date: March 25, 2020 Grade Level: Toddler Circle one: ECE PKSN
Standard(s)/Guideline(s): Approaches Towards Learning: Initiative: Focus on an activity for short periods of time despite distractions.
Approaches Towards Learning: Creativity: Use self-selected materials and media to express ideas and feelings
Pre-assessment of current knowledge:
What kind of noises do (insert animal name) make? How does that animal move?

Instructional Objectives (2-3) Assessment of Student Learning Learning Experience

Two- Three Assessed Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data Academic Language:
Instructional Objective(s): The to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and
student will be able to... skill?) Hop, slither, leap, strut, glide, bounce

The student will be able to focus
on themselves and others
participating in the activity
The student will be able to roll a
dice and complete the given task
One Assessed Developmental
Skill:
The students will be able to use
sensory information to guide
movement to accomplish tasks
Safety Considerations:
Students and teachers both
should be aware of spatial
distance between students so they
do not accidently hit or bump into
each other
The teacher will take pictures to collect data of the
students completing the game
Teacher will take pictures of students rolling, moving, and
reacting to others
Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile
your evidence into a class or group view?)
Post the pictures taken either on the walls labeled with the
animals they are copying or post on an online forum that
parents have access to. Pictures will also be added to the
students personal binders.
Procedural steps:
1. “We are going to play a game that involves animals
and how they move so put on your thinking caps
and begin thinking of how animals move”
2. Pull out the dice (about the size of a child’s head)
and explain how we will take turns rolling the dice.
When the dice lands on a side, the whole class will
do the movement described
3. The dice lands on either “Hop like a frog”, “slither
like a snake”, “leap like a deer”, “strut like a rooster”,
“glide like a goose”, and “bounce like a bunny”
4. Play current, appropriate music (that is played on
the radio and the students will know) (use pandora)
5. Have students roll one at a time, teacher calls their
names up to roll.
Authentic Materials: (Describe authentic real life, hands-on
materials.)
The movement cube
Adult Roles:
Introduce the dice, choose the student rolling, supervising
spacing and movement
 5/23/2013
Early Childhood Education
Learning Experience Template

Resources & References:

I saw this on Pinterest and adapted it to fit a dice for large motor skills

Reflection:
I will adapt this lesson to fit the first grade standards of fine arts: dance: 1PR demonstrate basic locomotor and non-locomotor movement patterns using changes
in time, space, body shape and movement quality to construct and express personal meaning and science: K.LS.2 Living things have physical traits and
behaviors, which influence their survival. Looking at the science standard, create a heavier focus in the animal and its movement and how the animal would move
in water versus mud will help students to fully comprehend the movement and speed of the movement they are executing. And with the fine arts, students will
continue to construct meaning about their movement and “move with purpose”. With this adapted lesson, students will be able to move with purpose to the
direction of an animal and students will be able to identify the movements of animals and the importance to the animals survival.