 January 31, 2014

 8:00 – 8:30Overview of the day cafeteria  8:30 – 12:00Session 1  12:00 – 1:00Lunch in cafeteria provided by District  1:00 – 2:30Session 2

Common core focuses primarily on math and English language arts, which extend to all school subjects, including physical education. Today we will look at how you can integrate Common Core strategies into a Physical Education class.

A prominent focus in the Common Core standards is developing verbal and reading skills (literacy). Fortunately, you’ve been doing this the entire time without even knowing it. Simply providing verbal cues and instructions each day is a good starting point, but you can push it further with these simple ideas:

 Station cards: During an activity that involves moving between several different stations, create station cards that offer in-depth written instructions for what to do next for critical thinking/comprehension practice.

 Read-aloud: Also known as shared reading, reading-aloud gives students a chance to hear fluent reading. Provide hand-outs and read out loud while your students follow along. They can then keep the hand-outs to peruse later or to reinforce your verbal instructions.

 Bulletin boards/ White Boards: Provide a bulletin board or portable white board that provides a daily objective and instructions for the students. These can be tasks that must be accomplished by the end of the lesson.  PE Word Wall: A wall that displays important vocabulary— movement words, health terms, names of muscle groups— that will be used throughout the day’s lesson.

 Supplemental texts: Post or hand out supplemental materials about the sport or skill you are currently covering. For instance, if you are on your baseball unit, post a short history of baseball, the basic rules, fun facts, and profiles of athletes.

Proficient writing has become one of the most important skills for students today. The following are a few ways you can integrate writing into your Physical Education curriculum.

 Setting goals: Have students write down their goals before an activity or at the start of the week. At the end of the activity or the week, have students provide a post- assessment of what they accomplished and what they could have done better.

 Health and fitness journals: An extension of the above, you can have each student compile an in-depth journal that records their fitness goals for the entire year and includes a daily breakdown of the foods they ate and the physical activities they performed.

 Create a new game: Split kids into groups and have them write out the rules and directions for a new game. They can then provide a quick demonstration of the new game, and you can choose from the best to play during the next class period.

 Educational brochures: Kids can create informational brochures on various subjects, like the importance of physical activity, nutrition, or how to maintain a healthy heart. You can then make copies and distribute them or post them on your bulletin board.

 Home fitness projects: These projects extend the lessons kids learn in class to their lives at home. Have them write out ideas for living healthy outside of school.

 Create a class website or blog: Put kids in charge of certain elements of the blog or website and encourage students to contribute to the blog by writing short posts and comments. This is also a great way to build students’ technological proficiency.

Math comprises a whole range of skills that go far beyond solving equations on a chalkboard. Some ways you can integrate math into your Physical Education curriculum are:

 Graphs: Students should create graphs and charts that show their results for a given activity. For example, when students run timed laps, you can have them chart out their times and see their progress over the course of a month.

 Skip counting: Normally, when your students warm up or do stretches, they count by ones. Switch things up by having kids skip count progressively. For example, they can do ten jumping jacks counting by ones (1, 2, 3, 4…), then do toe touches for ten seconds but counting by twos (2, 4, 6, 8…). This is a great way to combine physical activity with multiples.

 Pedometers: Pedometers can be used for all kinds of fun math-related activities. Kids can wear pedometers during class to see how many steps they have taken and then challenge themselves to take more steps during the next class. They can add the numbers together to see how many total steps they took.

Comprehension and Collaboration Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own ideas clearly and persuasively.

Comprehension and Collaboration Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.

Standards Based Physical Education Curriculum, Lesson Plans and Assessment Program

 Program details  How to access program

 There are introduction and closure units in both ninth and tenth grade.  There are 8 40-lesson units of instruction for ninth grade.  There are lesson units of instruction for tenth grade.

The screen for each lesson looks the same.  The numbers after each activity refers to the national physical education standards.  The numbers in brackets [ ] refer to the California physical education standards.

Click on Resources to access resources for the lesson.  On the left side of the screen is a list of what you will need to teach the lesson.  On the right side of the screen are posters or worksheets available to you.  Double click on the resource and it will open in Adobe Acrobat Reader

 Click on Skills to read and see the skills to be taught in this lesson. Directions for all skills, drills, activities, dances, and games are located under the Skill tab and Activities tab for the teacher.

Click on Activities to read and see the activities to be used in the lesson. There are task cards with cues and directions for student use.

 Click on Interdisciplinary to see suggestions for interdisciplinary links or add your own.  Click on Exercises to see exercises to use during the lesson.  Clicking on each exercise category provides a drop-down menu for exercises in that category.

 Click on Quiz to see the quiz for the unit.  Click on Notes to add your own notes.  Click on Standards to see the standards for the unit.  Click on Assessment to see the assessment for each standard in the unit.

 Click on Description to return to the lesson.  You can select information on any screen to copy and paste into another document.

 When you click on Show All, all 720 lessons are available to you through the right and left arrows.  However, you can search for lessons by clicking on Search by Grade or Search by Lessons.

 Click on the Search By Grade button to find all the lessons related to the grade.  Click on the Search by Unit button to find all the lessons related to a specific unit (e.g., stunts, throwing and catching).

 Click on the Print to go to the print screen.  Click Print again to print the lesson or click Return to return to the lesson screen.  Click Quit at anytime to leave the program.

 Volleyball Unit – Sample from the program Review set up of unit Review Physical education standards

Collaborate to create a Volleyball unit to use during 2 nd semester  Skills – teaching progression and cues  Rules  PE Standards & Common Core Standards  Sportsmanship/communication  Game play  Assessment