Step Aerobics

Name: Marci Barker

Activity:Step aerobics

Skill(s): Warm up, cool down and workout

Grade Level: 8th Grade Girls

# of students: 30

Equipment (what and how much) 31 Steps, music micro phone, 8 mats.

Link to Utah State Standard – standard 2. Obj. 3 a.

Objectives (Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor)

(1)Cognitive- Students will remember and recall the combos to do them later.

(2) Affective- Students will feel the intensity with different levels with risers.

(3) Psychomotor- Students will learn step combinations that they have never done before.

Safety Issues- Entire foot needs to make contact with the bench, shoes need to be tied and everyone needs to get a drink at the drink breaks.

Grouping for each activity: Students will not be grouped but they will be organized based on height. We will put taller people in the back and then rotate so everyone has a chance to be in the front.

Technical Description: Step aerobics requires the ability to stay at a set pace either with the teacher or the music. I will perform each movement before I ask them to do it. I will perform it slow and as many times as needed to ensure every one gets it. We will learn about the warm up, work out and cool down. Step also requires progression as you cannot learn the second step until you have learned the first one.

Learning Experiences (introduction, drills)
1 First thing will be to introduce what the steps are used for and I will also make sure that the students know about their different levels available. We will listen to music and clap according to the beat so that I can know who may have a problem or we can clear it up before we try it on the steps so that no one gets embarrassed.

2 Next we will do the warm up off the bench so they know that a warm up is important for every activity we do. We will also have drink breaks scheduled so that they learn staying hydrated is important as well. We will move onto the workout and I will talk about progression as they learn it.

3 The cool down will then come next. We will slowly take it off the bench and finish our cool down on the floor. We will be able to tell that our heart rate has lowered.

Verbal cues
I will always give positive feedback and encouragement. Also alignment cues will be necessary as time goes on in the rush of things.

Review/ Assessment:
This is a review when it comes to taking our heart rates and warming up. none

Suggestions for follow-up none

Reference none