SPARK Up Your
Curriculum and Energize
Presented By:
SPARK Trainer, Enid Chesler
The SPARK Programs
1-800-SPARK-PE
www.sparkpe.org
SPARK UP Your Curriculum and Energize!
Enid Chesler, NBCT, SPARK PE Certified Trainer
BUILDING A FOUNDATION – establishes protocols, behavioral expectations,
social skills. Build movement vocabulary, body, spatial awareness, and knowledge
of locomotor and non locomotor skills. Concept building; directionality, tempo,
pathways, levels. Providing students a fun and successful environment at an early
age inspiring them to be lifelong movers and ultimately healthier citizens.
Introduction of cross curricular integration in each SPARK lesson, the what, the
where and the why.
Pedometers – Guess-timates on foot steps today. Write numbers down on a post
it notes.
Rules
1.
2.
3.
– POWER OF 3
Don’t touch anyone or anything unless unless you are told.
Don’t do anything to hurt yourself or anyone else.
Stop when I say, “freeze” and and move when I say “go”.
Name Game
WHEN BEFORE WHAT STATEMENTS
Personal Space
Helicopter arms
You don’t have to share
It goes wherever you go
Front, back, sides, stretch
Blowing bubbles
Home base
Where you are standing, no sharing
Position words-beside, behind, around, over, etc.
Go Away, go home (use levels, locomotor, tempo, etc)
Switcheroo
Gathering coconuts
Increase and decrease boundaries for cardiovascular fitness
General Space
Mingle, mingle
Scrambled eggs
Freeze dance
Pairings/Groupings
Mingle, mingle
Scrambled eggs
Back to Back, elbow to elbow
Hand signals
Work Out Buddies-high 5, secret handshake, surfing buddies. Reinforce social
skill
Same/different partner
Fitness stations
Locomotor skills-8; walk, run, skip, jump, hop, gallop, slide, leap
Rock and Roll-Move cubes
Alphabetize locomotor skills
4 Corners
Levels
High, medium low
Directions
Forward, backward, sideward, clockwise (rt) and counterclockwise (left)
Pathways-use string and paper plates for snowshoes
Straight, curvey, zigzag, letters
Tempo-use drum or metronome, music
Slow, medium and fast
Body part identification
Body part call out
Balance on this
Body shaping-use string, rope and literature integration; “Crooked Man”
Narrow, angular, wide, cured
Non Locomotor skills
Twist, bend, stretch, rise, fall, circle, swing
Action words-sizzle, splash, dive, swim, a pour, snake, melting, spin, stretch,
hammer. Barnyard Dance or Brown Bear
Groups
Hand signals
Touching body parts
Rock and Roll using Move Cubes. Relationships in movement
Mirror
Opposites
Echo
Chain reaction
5 Touches
Traffic Tag-safe tag
Mini chutesFly in the Web
Great Race
Catching the Orb
Dance-Hawaiian Roller coaster infusing pedometer strategies
Pedometer/Math IntegrationFirst Person to reach 100
Problem solve-What can you do to increase steps
Guesstimate
Ascending to descending order
Make and Take Time-Literature and Math (using pedometers)
Literature and Movement-Brown Bear, Hokey Pokey, Another Prickly Love Story,
Two Little Shoes, A is for Africa, Lots and Lots of Zebra Stripes
Others-Snip Snap-Bergman, Potato Joe, Wave, What do wheels do all day long? Prince, A Childs Day of Alphabet Play, Pearle, Up Down All Around-Ayers, I Airn’t
Gonna Paint No More-Beaumont, Little Yoga, Whiteford, Sleepy Little Yoga,
Whitefield, Peaceful Piggy Yoga, Whitefield.
Resource for equipment, music and curricula, Ryan Schissler 1 800 SPARKPE or
[email protected]