Early Childhood Program Lesson Plan Format Movement Based Experiences

Name of Teacher Candidate: Nicole Casper Date: November 5, 2020

Grade Range: (check one)
Pre-K – K _____ 1st – 3rd _X____ 4th – 5th _____
Name of the Experience:
“Addition Facts Relay Race”
Targeted Areas of Development: Define whether the experience targets fine motor or gross motor skills.
Gross Motor
Time Required: Instructional Groupings:
30 minutes Whole Group
Standards:
MGSE2.OA.2 Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.
PE2.1 The physically educated student demonstrates competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patters.
a. Uses combinations of various locomotor movement patterns (skip, gallop, slide, jog, run, and jump) while demonstrating
proper form with different pathways.

As a result of this experience students will…

Learning Objectives:
The students will be able to recognize and answer simple addition problems using mental math.
The students will be able to use gross motor (large muscle) skills to run.

Assessment (Each learning objective must be assessed. How will students demonstrate the skills targeted in the learning
objectives?
Assessment Strategy:
Use a checklist to identify which students may need additional help with the procedure. Use “” for the students who quickly
recognize and correctly solve the given problem each time it is their turn. Use “-” for the students who are able to recognize the
problem after taking time to count it out on their fingers. Use “X” for the students who are unable to recognize and correctly solve
the given problem until after someone else announces the answer.
The students who seem to need additional work on this process will be assigned work based off of this standard on Reflex in order
to provide more practice.
Steps in the Experience (Include step-by-step directions necessary for implementation of the experience. Use a bulleted format.
Include the attention getter or the hook for the experience, the introduction, the procedures, and the closing.)
Early Childhood Program – Lesson Plan Format – Movement Based Experiences John H. Lounsbury College of Education, Georgia College
Early Childhood Program Lesson Plan Format Movement Based Experiences

Attention Getter or Hook:

Let’s go outside, we are going to have a race while practicing math!
Introduction:
Today we are going to spend some time outside while practicing addition facts. All of you are going to be split up into two teams,
and your teams will be competing against each other. Which team is going to be our winner?
Instructional Strategies:
This activity will be done outside in a grassy, open space – the courtyard, or playground field during recess time.

Line the students up and split them into two separate teams.

1. Tell the students that they will be shown a flash card with an addition problem on it. The person who says the correct
answer first, gets to run across the field.
2. Hold up a flash card. The student who says the correct answer first will run.
3. Repeat this process until every team member is on the other side of the field.
4. Once every member of a team is on the other side, send them back to the beginning placement and repeat this process
until time is up.
Closure/Wrap up: (Describe how the experience will be summarized.)
It is important to be able to use mental math for solving simple addition problems. During this game, we practiced adding simple
problems using mental math and also used our gross motor skills to run. We will complete this activity at least once a week during
recess in order to strengthen both our minds and gross motor muscles.
Instructional Supports
Resources and Materials Used to Engage Students in Learning
Addition Flash Cards
Paper and pen for checklist
Modifications and Adaptations
Suggested Modification for Students with Disabilities:
For those who may experience difficulties with mobility, assign a partner for that student who will be able to run for them when
they get an answer correct.
Suggested Adaptations for the Other 2 Grade Ranges
For Pre-K and K, provide a game in which the students will be competing based off of single number recognition. These students
will be shown cards that have a single number on them instead of the addition problems, and the same steps will be followed. For
Early Childhood Program – Lesson Plan Format – Movement Based Experiences John H. Lounsbury College of Education, Georgia College
Early Childhood Program Lesson Plan Format Movement Based Experiences

4th and 5th grade, students will be computing based off of multiplication problems. These students will be shown multiplication fact
cards, instead of addition, and the same steps will be followed.
Materials:

Student Engagement:

Early Childhood Program – Lesson Plan Format – Movement Based Experiences John H. Lounsbury College of Education, Georgia College
Early Childhood Program Lesson Plan Format Movement Based Experiences

Partner Teacher Verification:

Early Childhood Program – Lesson Plan Format – Movement Based Experiences John H. Lounsbury College of Education, Georgia College