Blended Learning Lesson Plan

Lesson Title: Throwing, Tossing, Catching

Objectives:
Students will be able to:
Explain the proper way to hold and toss a ball.
Demonstrate how to properly toss a ball.
Recognize foot placement, weight shifting, and aim while performing a toss.

State Standards:
Standard 1: The physically literate individual demonstrates competency in a variety of motor
skills and movement patterns. (Psychomotor Domain)
2-1.7 Toss a ball underhand using mature form (including places feet together and
shoulders square to target, swings throwing arm straight back, shifts weight
forward by stepping forward onto opposite foot, ball rolls off fingers, and finishes
with throwing arm outstretched toward target).

Context: This lesson is for targeted towards elementary physical education students about
technique and understanding of tossing. I am teaching this lesson because it is crucial for the
students to know how to explain, demonstrate, and recognize competency in a variety of motor
skills and movement patterns. This is an exercise skill that students should know so that they will
be able to better understand their personal motor skills and have the knowledge to improve these
skills. Before this lesson, the students learned about the concepts of tossing/throwing and how it
can improve their physical fitness and health. This means that students will be coming into this
lesson being able to comprehend what they are trying to improve upon. This skill is important
because the students need to understand the reasons of why and how tossing/throwing can
improve an individual’s physical abilities. After this lesson, the students will learn how to
demonstrate a live game and be able to explain the motor skill and each movement pattern that is
put into play. To prepare the students for this, the students will learn how to recognize and
properly hold, place, shift, and aim before the next lesson. This will especially be helpful in the
next lesson because they will already have strategies to look back on while moving to new
movement patterns and activities. Overall, this lesson will be important in helping students
improve their physical fitness.
Data: The students will be divided into three groups. There will be a low, middle, and high
group. They will be based on their exit slip from the previous lesson that tested their
understanding of the concepts on motor skills and movement patterns. This helped me focus my
lesson directly towards what I think will best help the students understand the material. The exit
slip data will be used to create the groups. For this lesson, the students will complete an
assignment at the end of the lesson today. This assignment will be composed of questions about
the lesson, reflective questions that ask whether they think they clearly understand the material,
and there will be room for the students to add any additional questions that they still have about
the lesson. I will gather data from this assignment for future groupings by looking at what the
students get right, similar answers to the reflective questions, and also similar questions. This
will be helpful to the students because they can learn from other students and figure out the
answers and questions together for future lessons.

Materials:

Part of the Materials Needed

Lesson

Introduction  Smart Board

 Warmup Video: https://youtu.be/w6-C3ShLPTk
 Whiteboard (information displayed)
Teacher Directed  iPad
 Google Classroom:
https://classroom.google.com/u/0/w/MzIyNjIyODg3MzQ1/t/all
 Kahoot: https://kahoot.it/
Collaborative  iPad
Station  Video
 Google Classroom:
https://classroom.google.com/u/0/w/MzIyNjIyODg3MzQ1/t/all
Independent  iPads
Digital  Google Docs:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UMWhTKz-
lCg0vrVwSjPLiCYq2stQyTc2nQiP2Wo7W2E/edit
 Link: https://youtu.be/EMJIMHONg0E
Closure  iPad
 Google Classroom:
https://classroom.google.com/u/0/w/MzIyNjIyODg3MzQ1/t/all
Procedures:
Introduction (15 minutes):
I will start class by allowing the students to sit their personal items down and get
on their green X. I will start the lesson by breaking the students up into their selected
groups. I will then explain the stations for class, which will be written on the white board.
I will run through the Teacher Directed station and explain to them that there will be a
Kahoot that they must complete for a grade. Then I will explain to them the Collaborative
Station, where they will video, each other throwing and submit it to Google Classroom.
Next, I will explain the Independent Station where they will watch a video that is
provided on Google Classroom, and answer the questions provided. Each assignment will
be posted on Google Classroom and will all be submitted for a grade. After explaining
how everything is going to work. The student will stand and do a quick warmup exercise
directed by a exercise video on the Smart Board. There are 15 sections, however, they
will only complete 5 of them to give time for the other assignments.

Teacher Directed (10 minutes):

In this portion of the lesson the students will be directed to get their iPads and
wait for the teacher’s instruction. I will explain to them why we are having a throwing
lesson and how it can benefit them in their physical fitness. The students will then be
directed to login to their iPads and go to Google Classroom. Here, they will be directed to
go to Kahoot and login with the code. The students will take the quiz. After the quiz,
there will be time for students to ask any questions that they may have about the
assignment or about throwing.

Collaborative (10 minutes):

In this portion of the lesson the students will find a partner within their group.
Each student will login to Google Classroom and open the Collaborative Assignment.
The students will review over the instructions and example and they will record each
other throwing a ball underhand, by using their step-by-step techniques. The students will
then take their personal video and post it to Google Classroom for a grade.
 Independent Digital (10 minutes):
In this portion of the lesson will be done independently. Each student will find
their own place in the floor and will complete the assignment. The students will open
Google Classroom and read the instructions. The students will be asked to watch the
video that is provided and answer the questions that are given on a Google Docs. The
questions given will correspond with the video. The students will answer the questions
and submit them to Google Classroom for a grade.

Closure (10 minutes):

For the closure of the lesson, the students will come back together as a class and
wait for the teacher’s instruction. I will instruct the students to go into Google Classroom
and complete the Exit Slip. In the Exit Slip, the students will explain how they felt about
the lesson, things they liked, and any questions that they might have. After each student
has completed the Exit Slip, I will ask if any student has any questions. After the Q &A
each student will be directed to get their personal belongings and we will get lined up to
go back to class.

Rationale:

Kahoot Quiz:
I chose this piece of multimedia as a fun way to help close the lesson. It is a fun
way to test the knowledge of the students. It plays fun music and makes it very easy to
answer questions. This app supports student learning goals, standards, and objectives
because it will help the students review all of the information we have covered before
they finish their last worksheet. It will give me another opportunity to further explain
how to summarize key details and concepts on throwing. This app is definitely high
quality because it is so easy and useful in the way it allows the teacher to create their own
questions. The app is appropriate and effective in achieving the purpose of fully engaging
the students. They get so excited and ready to answer the next question. Their goal is to
get the questions right, but my goal is to make sure they truly understand this lesson. This
app has great content quality since you have the option of creating questions or you can
use questions someone else has already created. It is very effective and easy to use. It
aligns with the learning goals by reviewing and testing the student’s knowledge. I can
watch while the students are playing the game to see which questions a lot of students are
getting wrong and which ones most of the students are getting right. It does give feedback
because it tells the student if they got it correct or incorrect. This motivates the students
because they want to get the questions right because the more questions you have right
and the faster you answer then the more points the students will collect. The interaction
usability of this app is very good because it is easy to navigate by answering the
questions. It complies with standards by helping the students to review everything that we
have learned in this lesson during station time. This app is good for all student learners
because it is easy to touch the square on the screen. However, if a student was not able to
see the screen very well, I would make sure the question-and-answer choices were read
out loud to the students. If the students were hearing impaired, then they could see the
questions on the Smart Board. If this still is a problem, then I might even print out the
questions and give them the next question in paper format as it comes on the screen. This
fun game would also benefit students with ADHD by engaging them in this lesson.

Teaching the Underhand Throw with Rhymes Video:

I chose this video because it does such a good job of helping students understand
the correct way to throw a ball underhand. It also helps keep student’s engagement. It
even gives an example to learn from. This video supports learning goals, standards, and
objectives because it will help the students get a better idea of how they should be using
their techniques. It is a high-quality video because it does such a great job of explaining
the step-by-step instruction and really breaks every movement down. The presentation
design is very good because it is appropriate content for this lesson. It also complies with
the standards from this unit. This video choice is good for all learners because all the
students must do is watch and listen. I would also be able to use the closed captions for
learners that are hearing impaired so that they could follow along by reading. If a student
was visually impaired, then they could just listen to the words of the video. However, this
video is played on the Smart Board so it should be fairly large. If the student is still
struggling to see the video, then we would figure out something else to help the student.
This fun song would also help students with ADHD by helping to engage the students.