Title – Ice Skating Pathways

By – Brittany Marcinkowski

Primary Subject – Health / Physical Education

Grade Level – K-2

Procedure:

• Explain the concepts and cues for the pathways:
  • straight (
    
    like a pencil/like a line
    
    )
  • curved (like the letter “C”/like a circle)
  • zigzag (
    
    moving in a line, coming to a point, and making sharp turns
    
    )

• Have students move through general space while making different pathways.

• Give each student a pair of “skates” (
  
  colored construction paper
  
  ) to put underneath their feet and slide on.

• Students must keep their feet on the construction paper while listening to the “skating instructor”
  
  (you
  
  ).

• Explain to the students that they are on a big, frozen lake, surrounded by miles of snowy land and trees.

• Tell the students that they will be skating today and that they will have to change their pathways as they move so they do not skate/slide into other skaters.

• Have students skate around the frozen lake using straight, curved, and zigzag pathways.

• Call out different combinations of pathways for the students to make.

• Observe to make sure they are making the pathways correctly.

• Then, ask them to design a pattern made up of the different pathways and practice “freestyle skating” that pattern in the “snow” until they can do it exactly the same each time.

• Have winter accessories (
  
  gloves, hats and scarves
  
  ) or add music to make it even more fun and exciting!

E-Mail

Brittany Marcinkowski

!