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Taking Turns Lesson PlanTaking Turns Lesson Plan
Publisher
Health Smart Virginia
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Grade
K
Subjects
Physical Education
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Duration
45 mins
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Collaborative Learning
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Year
2020
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Taking Turns

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Scholars work cooperatively, taking turns, to boost peer relationships and fairness. Rotating through five stations, players practice tossing, bouncing, push-ups, and working together to clean up fallen equipment, then rate their experience. A closing discussion allows class members to reflect.

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Concepts

taking turns, fairness, peers, relationship skills, relationships, expressing feelings, feelings, emotional development, emotions, identifying emotions, social-emotional learning

Instructional Ideas

  • Change the games to meet your learners' needs
  • Run the lesson more than once to keep practicing and highlight participants' progress

Classroom Considerations

  • The lesson requires P.E. equipment
  • The third lesson in a series of four social-emotional learning experiences

Pros

  • Strengthens relationship skills
  • Taking turns during P.E. roll over to the playground ettiquete

Cons

  • None

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