Lesson Plan Edits

1. Lesson Plan Edits INTENTIONAL PLANNING FOR Physical activity (PA) Mary Sonnenberg, Delaware Institute for Excellence in Early Childhood (DIEEC)

2. What is important when planning PA? • Think intentionally • It’s common for teachers to list “outdoor time” with no plan • Think about the skill development you need to support • Think about the interests of the children • Think about how to imbed PA into daily transitions • Think about adding a PA center in your classroom • Think about the materials you need as you plan • Help teachers see themselves as important role models

3. Provide opportunities for both adult-led and child-led PA • For both structured and unstructured PA • Set up a supportive environment • Encourage teachers to model enjoyment • Structured PA: teacher-led, developmentally appropriate • Age-appropriate motor skill development • Engages children with minimal or no waiting • Vigorous: gets children breathing harder for short periods • Unstructured PA: child-led free play • Activities that encourage children’s individual interests • Requires teacher engagement with children

4. Lesson Plan Edits - Physical Activity

5. Lesson Plan Edits - Physical Activity

6. Next steps… • On your tables are some materials from our bag of “goodies”. Think about how you could use these to increase physical activity in your programs. • Extra lesson plan editing forms are on the tables and in your binders for copying back at your programs. • There is a second, similar lesson plan editing form on the tables and in your binders that we will introduce later: Integrating Healthy Eating (HE) and Physical Activity (PA) and Early Learning Guidelines or Standards into Planning. It gives a prompt for thinking about linking across domains.