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Title - Airplane
By - Brian Dour
Primary Subject - Health / Physical Education
Secondary Subjects - Social Studies
Grade Level - K-1
This is a movement activity which works on upper body strength and space awareness.
The lesson requires only an open space for children to be able to run about in which is not crowded for them.
Begin by telling the children that they will be flying around the country today. Tell the children how important it is for airplanes to avoid other airplanes because of how they must safely reach their destinations.
Tell the children that they will become airplanes today and will pretend to fly different places around the world. They are to extend their arms out and walk or run about freely in the open space while avoiding the other planes.
Tell the children how airplanes need gas to be able to fly to different places and that the farther places are away the more gas they need. Next show the kids how to pump gas into their airplanes. They must do a pushup for every gallon of gas that it takes to go places.
Choose the children's first imaginary destination which should be somewhat nearby such as a nearby amusement park or toy store. Inform them of how many gallons of gas it will take for them to get there. Start with only like three gallons of gas and, for every destination which is farther, increase how much gas it will take. Set the children off and moving by saying "take off." Once the children have moved about for awhile pretending to fly, tell them to "come in for a landing." Choose next imaginary destination.
During the lesson you can observe children's awareness of others, their agility, and upper body strength during the pushups.
This activity usually takes between 12-15 minutes.
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