Locomotor Activities For Grade 1

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Background: The loss of honey bee colonies is a nationally recognized problem that demands attention from both the scientific community and the beekeeping industry. One outstanding threat is the unintended exposure of these pollinators to agricultural pesticides. Anthranilic diamides, such as chlorantraniliprole, are registered for use in stone and pome fruits, vegetables, turf, and grains. There are few publicly available studies that provide an analysis of chlorantraniliprole effects on the survivorship and locomotion activity of beneficial, pollinating insects such as honey bees. The data gathered in this study provide the acute toxicity, 30-day survivorship, and locomotor activity of honey bees exposed to technical-grade chlorantraniliprole and three formulated products with chlorantraniliprole as the active ingredient.

Results: Neither the technical-grade nor the formulated products of chlorantraniliprole were acutely toxic to honey bees following 4 or 72h treatments at the tested concentrations. A 4 h treatment of technical-grade and formulated chlorantraniliprole did not significantly affect the 30-day survivorship, although significantly higher mortality was observed after 30 days for bees receiving a 72 h treatment of technical-grade chlorantraniliprole and two formulated products. The locomotion activity, or total walking distance, of bees receiving a 4 h treatment of one chlorantraniliprole formulation was significantly reduced, with these individuals recovering their normal locomotion activity at 48 h post exposure. Conversely, there was observed lethargic behavior and significantly reduced walking distances for bees provided with a 72 h treatment of technical-grade chlorantraniliprole and each formulated product.

Conclusion: This study provides evidence for the effect of long-term exposure of chlorantraniliprole on the survivorship and locomotor activity of honey bees. Bees receiving a more field-relevant short-term exposure survived and moved similarly to untreated bees, reiterating the relative safety of chlorantraniliprole exposure to adult honey bees at recommended label concentrations. 2020 Society of Chemical Industry.

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At the start of every year, the first unit of the K-2 grade involves locomotor skills, and self and general space awareness. There is no arguing that these are fundamental skills every child needs to progress in physical education, and to ultimately lead a healthy lifestyle. In my experience, many PE programs, free, paid, or otherwise, spend an extensive amount of time working on these skills. Oftentimes, it is a matter of literally practicing the skills one at a time, which may be needed at the start, but can become tedious and boring after a while. How long can a child hop on one foot without wanting to just walk? In that vein, I wanted to provide some suggestions on how I teach locomotor skills in the hopes it will give others some insights into how to make it fun, engaging, and different every year.

Yes, everyone learns differently. What I find with locomotor skills is that the students need to see what an action looks like to really understand it. You can stand up there and tell a student how to skip or leap, but they need to see it to really get it. Most of the time seeing a peer performing the skill is enough. You will still have to teach some students separately to help them along. That leads me to the second thing I do.

Young children are literal when it comes to how they think. They will not be able to take an abstract description of something and understand it. For example, the notion of galloping like a horse may not resonate with all students, especially if they have never seen a horse. This is where having a reference visual is extremely helpful. I use locomotor cards I designed that are colorful, have characters of different ethnicities, which is important for many reasons, and provide students with easy to see and read information on each locomotor skill. I may post these around the gym, put them in a PowerPoint presentation and project the slide on the wall, or have it on a clipboard to give to them. You can get your own copy of these posters here:

There are so many fun games out there that can be used to teach locomotor skills. The problem is that some teachers may feel as though they need to teach each skill on its own and bang the students over the head with it. I believe in mixing the skills together in a fun game. It could be as simple as Simon Says or Builders and Bulldozers. In Simon Says, you can integrate the skills while they do other fun things. Builders and Bulldozers is fun too. You can have them do different locomotor skills for each round of the game.

You can also add more levels if you want them to work on more than one variation of the skill, see an example below for a format that I use often to allow students to self progress using animated GIFS to show skill specific instant activity challenges.

This is a game that I used for a Field Day Relay Race and the kids loved it so much that I started using it as a mixer or instant activity as well to talk about winning and losing and learning to be a good sport.

These are some of my Favorite Plug and Play Warm-Up Activities. They are great for those situations when need to transition or prepare for the next lesson, but also need to get your class warmed up. Just setup a projector or plug into a TV and you are good to go.

After the year most teachers had in 2020 and many of us going virtual for at least part of the time, there are TONS of awesome follow along videos that would work great for kids warming up. Some of my favorite channels for quick warmups are Go Noodle, Fitness Blender, Just Dance Videos and Get Kids Moving

After I got a TV installed in my gym I started creating follow the leader videos for each unit that I was teaching my students. I really loved having them warmup using skills that are specific to the lesson and would contribute to the overall focus of the unit.

I also used the videos to create some great Animated GIF Slideshows that I use to progress. students through a lesson and sometimes use as Instant Activity challenges as well, see the video below for an example:

The examples are all appropriate for elementary age students and the app has kids performing the exercises as well. Just plug your iPad, iPhone or computer into a projector or TV and have your kids follow along.

After my students complete one of the instant activities I mentioned in this post we will head to our Home Base Spots which is how I do assigned seats in my gym. I will lead a quick stretching routine (or have a student lead) and take attendance while the kids are getting stretched out.

I teach at an alternative school. My students are all 6-8 grade. So far there are some things I will probably incorporate. However, we only have an outside court, so many of the things for placing on walls will not work, especially since most days are highly windy. The Good Sportsmanship, and Self-Assessment ideas I love.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE these warm up activities. I am going to start implementing these in all of my PE classses. I feel like the students and I get very bored of the typical dynamic warm up. I cannot wait to change it up!

Where did you get the stick for your Thunderstick Challenge? I have jump ropes and whiffles balls but that hollow stick how do you keep the rope in there it looks like they have a cap on the end to keep it tight. ????

Hi,
I am a member and use your posters all the time. I am trying to print your stretching routine poster but it is going to charge me $4. Since I am a member, is there a way to get this poster for free? I teach at three different schools.
Thanks,
Tami

Warm up before a workout is very essential because without warming up muscles are not prepared for firing in a maximum throughput and will also lead to injury. Thanks for sharing this information on warmup movements.

Hello, I am so pleased to join your blog! I am teaching a health and PE course for preservice elementary and middle school teachers. You have given me many wonderful ideas for engaging my teachers in teaching skills according to the psychomotor, affective and social-emotional development of each student. I will be returning soon!

Perform different combinations of locomotor movements with and without equipment, alone and with others, moving at different speeds and levels, using different pathways, and going in different directions

Identify common features of specific categories of physical activities, and identify common strategies and tactics that they found effective while participating in a variety of physical activities in different categories

Locomotor activities for kids involve just that, locomotor skills. These skills can simply be thought of as a way of moving your body from one place to another. For example, walking is a locomotor skill and so is skipping, galloping or jogging. In all of these examples, your body is moving from one place to another. Below are some ideas for implementing these locomotor activities.

So we know what locomotor skills are, what would be a non-locomotor skill? Something like balancing on one leg or a wall sit would be a non-locomotor skill. In these activities you are not moving your body from one place to another.

Locomotor Skills are when we move our bodies from one location to another. They are a gross motor skill and the word locomotor comes from the noun locomotion which basically means the act of moving from place to place.

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