Physical Education Lesson

Grade: 5

Unit: Bowling

Date: 3/5/2016

Introduction/Warm Up
For the bowling lesson, students will be taken to the local bowling alley. The introduction of this
lesson will be an overview of the bowling equipment, safety instructions and a demonstration of
how to bowl and what the rules are, including score keeping.
Learning Activities/Teaching Strategies
The goal of this lesson is to teach students how to bowl properly and how to play the game by
the rules.
Once the introduction is over, students will be divided into groups of four and will practice and
play with their foursomes.*
Students will be responsible for score keeping on an official score keeping sheet, for themselves
throughout the game
Closure/Cool Down
The closure for the lesson will involve each student tally up his or her own score, and providing
those score sheets to me.
A recap of the game and lesson will be done after all the sheets are tuned in.
Assessment/Evaluation/
Comments
I will be monitoring the students performance throughout the lesson ensuring that each student
is playing by the rules and properly holding and throwing the bowling ball. I will correct each
student as needed.
I will also assess the final score sheets to determine if the students added and kept score properly
(they will not be assessed on whether or not they had the best score, simply on whether or not
that tallied it correctly).
Safety Considerations:
I will be monitoring all students as they play to make sure they are appropriately handling the
ball. Bowling balls are heavy and could present a safety concern if they are handled
inappropriately.
Equipment:
Bowling alley
Bowling ball for each student
Bowling shoes for each student

1 assistive bowling ramp

*Accommodations:
Tracey is a 5th grade student with severe juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA). Because of her
JRA, Tracey has difficulty moving her fingers and gripping things; this causes her a great deal of
pain. For this reason, during the bowling lesson, Tracey will have access to using an assistive
bowling ramp. This eliminates Tracey having to put her fingers in the bowling ball holes and
squeezing them. The ramp will be lined up wherever Tracey chooses, the ball will be placed on
top of the ramp, and Tracey will then be able to push the ball down the ramp without having to
clench of use her fingers. This will allow Tracey to be included in the lesson with her peers with
the most amount of independence.
A student in her group will be assigned to write her score down for her, as she has difficulty
gripping small objects such as a pencil. However, she will be responsible for figuring out her
score.