Jackie Evans

EDEX 750

Lesson: Barcodes from '"'A World Alive'"'

Date: Oct. 10, 1995

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Lesson Focus: Mimicking Animal Movements

Target Audience: P.E. classes for grades 1 to 6

Objectives: The students will compare their movements to similar movements made by different animals.

The students will copy animal movements as closely as they possibly can.

The students will learn how to run, jump, crawl, gallop, and crabwalk.

The 6th graders will find three sentences (using the web site) that contain a/some recreational activities that require one or more of the movements learned/talked about in the lesson.

Instructional Material: Teacher's demonstrations, Barcodes from '"'A World Alive'"' video disk (still frames and motion sequences of animal movements); and for the 6th graders - the URL site: Hands on Health

Type of Class activity: The students will do each movement stated in the objectives after the teacher demonstrates (one lap for each movement).

The teacher will chose different students to show the class how they would move around if they were a particular animal.

The teacher would show the first still frame (snake); then ask all students to pose like the animal in the picture. Then the teacher would show the first motion sequence (snake crawling) and ask the students to move the same way the snake moved.

Each pair of barcodes (still frame for students to copy pose of the animal; and the motion sequence to copy the movement of the animal) would be used the same way. The barcodes for each frame are listed:
(1) snake 11981
(2) snake crawling 11784 to 12144
(3) crab 12180
(4) crab walking 12145 to 12253
(5) ostrich 12268
(6) ostrich running 12254 to 12388
(7) bat 12404
(8) bat flying 12389 to 12481
(9) kangaroo 12675
(10) kangaroo jumping 12483 to 12779 .

Pre-requisites: The 6th graders would have have to know how to use the mouse, computer, and web site.

Assessment: A movement quiz without the still and motion pictures.