| PPEP-PALS Lesson Sharing |
| Teacher & School: Jason Wright |
| Activity |
Grade Level |
| Parachute Math |
1-6 |
| Equipment Needs |
parachute, 2 big dice |
| Facility/Playground Needs |
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| Lesson Objective (Psychomotor and/or Cognitive): |
speed and agility, listening skills, addition, basic facts
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| Teaching Hints: |
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| Description: |
- Give each student a number from 2-12.
- Have students move in a circle around the outside of the parachute.
- Teacher holds onto and then throws dice onto chute. Have students start to move the parachute and shake the dice around.
- All together the students count “1,2,3,4,5” and then stop shaking the parachute.
- Students call out the numbers showing on the dice... i.e. 6+2=? (or whatever the numbers are).
- Students yell out the answer “8” and then lift up the parachute up into a bubble and the students whose personal number is 8 switch places with each other by running under the parachute. They must do this before the chute falls and hits them in the head.
- If the two numbers on the dice are the same = make a bubble with the chute and everyone goes inside, sits down and brings the chute down over them.
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| Alternatives/Modifications |
- Use a ball first to practice using the parachute.
- You can discuss probability during or after this activity.
- You can use subtraction, multiplication and division facts as well.
- Make sure students call out bigger number first when adding the dice numbers together. This will help add the numbers up more quickly.
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