1. HOOP TRIP TO THE PLANETS
Jeannette Smith & Jillian Dale

2. HOOP TRIP TO THE PLANETS
Objective:
The class will practice locomotor movement skills while learning the order and facts about each planet.
Grades Kindergarten through Second
25-35 minutes

3. Indiana Academic Standards:
INTASC
Standard 7:
Planning for Instruction
Multiple content areas
Whole brain pedagogy
Multiple accommodations
NASPE
Standards 1 & 2
Motor Skills
Movement instruction and principals
Indiana Academic Standards:
Kindergarten: K.1.1
First Grade: 1.1.1
Second Grade: 2.2.2
Locomotor skills

4. Prepare for Launch! Equipment and Preparation: Nine planetary stations
Manipulatives with planet facts
Planet models
Numbered cones
Hula hoops for each student

5. Introductory activity
Planet Order Stretch
Say planet names in order while stretching head to toe.
Use for closing activity.

6. HOOP TRIP TO THE PLANETS
Blast Off!
On earth, students enter space ships.
Class counts down to blast off!
Students use first locomotor skill to fly to first planet.
life on mars!
Students will land on each planet and exit space ship.
Students will pass around model planet.
Students will learn about each planet.
Students will answer questions about that planet.
Next scheduled launch!
Students will enter space ships again.
Students will use a different locomotor movement to get to the next planet.
Students will fly back to earth after visiting each planet.

7. Assessments and safety concerns
Informal, Formative Assessment
Watch children complete locomotor movements between planets
Verbally quiz children about facts and order of the planets
Safety Concerns
Plenty of room
Open clear space
No running or sprinting locomotor movements

8. Physically impaired students: Learning impaired students:
Accommodations
Physically impaired students:
hula hoops
Participate in reading facts
Simplified locomotor skills
Arm movements
Learning impaired students:
Slow pace of lesson
Use picture books instead of facts
More whole brain techniques
Simplified facts
gifted students:
Speed pace of lesson
Use more complex facts
Quiz with harder questions

9. References
Ansel, K. (2001). Classroom teacher integrated. Retrieved from VF_V73ktDIU
Mars. (n.d.). Retrieved from