Physical Education: Muscle Coordination in the Form of Catching

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I can learn to catch a variety of balls that are thrown to me.

Lesson Notes/materials:  8th grade general education physical education class with the inclusion of two females diagnosed with sensory integration disorders.

Materials: field cones, tennis balls, volleyballs, large beach balls and Velcro catching paddles w/accompanying balls.  Possibly balls with different textures.

Investigating Modern Model of Atomic Structure

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The student will create a model of an element identifying protons, neutrons, electrons. The student will also be able to identify the atomic number and mass of the atom.

Physical Education: Volleyball and Team Player Skills

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I can show proper etiquette (taking turns, no arguing with referee), respect for others (words of encouragement, no arguing with players), integrity (being honest when calls are close) and teamwork (hitting at appropriate time and location on court) during a game of volleyball.

Lesson Notes/materials: trainer volleyball, regulation volleyball, net, poly spots (to use for students serving from different distances from the net to accommodate needs of all students)

 

Physical Education: Striking

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I can apply force to various objects to achieve different results (different directions, farther distances, towards a target).

Lesson Notes/materials:  8th grade general education physical education class with the inclusion of 2 males diagnosed with autism.

 

Materials:  volleyballs, 10” hollow rubber balls, solid foam balls, playground balls, tennis balls, volleyballs, large beach balls, balloons, hula hoops, wall targets

Percent of Increase or Decrease

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Percent, increase, decrease, ratio

Vocabulary Associated with Algebraic Expressions

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  • Students will learn vocabulary associated with algebraic expression, including: variable, term, constant, and coefficient.
  • Student will be able to identify a variable, term, constant, coefficient, and an algebraic expression or equation.
  • Students will be able to translate verbal phrases into algebraic expressions and algebraic expressions into verbal phrases.
  • Students will be able to write, read, and evaluate algebraic expressions in which letters stand for numbers.

Translating Verbal Expressions into Algebraic Expressions

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  • Students will be able to translate verbal phrases into algebraic expressions and algebraic expressions into verbal phrases.
  • Students will be able to write, read, and evaluate algebraic expressions in which letters stand for numbers.

Discovering the Deviations

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  1. This lesson will follow a review day of statistics and box and whisker plots and will lead into the discovery of z-score which will be in the following lesson.

Relating Graphs to Events

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  1. This lesson would introduce time vs. distance graphs and how they can help describe real life events. Some students will conceptually understand this with little effort or explanation, where others will struggle visualizing it.  This topic is essentially introducing slope in its simplest form, which will be covered heavily in the following tow lessons.

Using Speed of Hot Rods to Understand Slope

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  1. This lesson should be fun because they get to race cars, make predictions conceptually calculate slope without the use of a formal formula. The formula will soon be derived, hopefully as a student discovery, but students will have something concrete with which to associate the formula.