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🏃 1st Grade · PES1.E1Unit 1: Personal space & safety

Personal space bubbles

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🎯 Objective: Students move without bumping in general space.

Lesson outline

  1. Bubble demo with arms out.
  2. Walk, skip, jog in space.
  3. Freeze on signal.
  4. Exit: show your bubble.

Lesson 1 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

S1.E1

SHAPE America National PE Standards (grade band K–2)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Move safely in general and personal space
  • Follow start/stop signals

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

⏲️ Stopwatch👥 Team generator⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Personal space & safety”

  1. Personal space bubbles
  2. Start and stop signals
  3. Pathways and levels

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