FCS Lesson Plan

Name: Julia Brandt

Organization: Fontbonne University

Date 9/9/2014

Cooperating Teacher/Mentor: Mary Beth Ohlms

Grade/Age Level: Adults

Length of Lesson: 45 min.

Title of Lesson: Encouraging Mindfulness with Yoga (Micro teaching #1)

1. Goal(s)
12.2.2 Analyze the impact of social, economic, and technological forces on individual growth and development.
14.1 Analyze factors that influence nutrition and wellness practices across the lifespan.
14.1.1 Explain physical, emotional, social, psychological, and spiritual components of individual and family wellness.
14.1.2 Analyze the effects of psychological, cultural, and social influences on food choices and other nutrition practices.
2. Prior Knowledge
Prior knowledge will be assessed by:
Beginning the class with by writing questions on the board, and asking each student to respond to each question on a piece of
paper provided.
Questions asked will include:
What do you know about yoga?
What is your opinion of yoga?
Rate your willingness to try yoga on a scale of 1-10 (1 being not at all willing and 10 being 100% willing)
3. Learner Outcomes: In the
space below, enter your outcomes
(two or more) that attend to the
following:

During the introduction

activity, 90% of students will
be able to thoughtfully
respond to the questions
posted (cognitive)
Following the History of Yoga
Prezi presentation, each
student will be able to list
(recall) 2 facts about the
history of yoga (cognitive).
Following the 20 minute yoga

4. Assessment of Learner
Outcomes: In the space below,
describe your assessment
procedures that attend to the
following:
Ask the students to journal
respond to the questions on
the board at their places.
Provide the students with a
brief Prezi presentation about
the history of yoga. Test the
students knowledge of what
they learned on the Prezi by
having each student list 3-5
facts they remembered from
the Prezi on the board.
Allow the students to each

5. Procedures: In the space

below, describe what you, the
teacher, will do to ensure student
learning:

I will pull up the Prezi on the

computer so that it is ready for
future use within the lesson.
I will have the yoga DVD in
the DVD player so that it is
ready to be called up when
needed.
I will write the 4 questions on
the board.
I will pass a sheet of paper
and a pen out to each student

6. Questions: In the space

below, identify questions that you
can ask that will reflect and
promote the stated outcomes:
What do you know about
yoga? (Knowledge)
What is your opinion of yoga?
(Evaluation)
Rate your willingness to try
yoga on a scale of 1-10
(Evaluation).
Identify 2 things you learned
from the Prezi about the
history of yoga.
Model one or more of the
yoga poses you learned from

FCS Lesson Plan

Name: Julia Brandt
Organization: Fontbonne University

Date 9/9/2014

Cooperating Teacher/Mentor: Mary Beth Ohlms

Grade/Age Level: Adults

Length of Lesson: 45 min.

Title of Lesson: Encouraging Mindfulness with Yoga (Micro teaching #1)

lesson, 100% of students will

be able to demonstrate one of
the poses they learned and
liked (psychomotor)
(cognitive).

demonstrate a yoga pose she

liked during the yoga lesson to
the class.

upon entry into the classroom

and instruct them to journal
respond to the questions
posted on the board on the
sheet of paper provided.
I will then ask for any student
volunteers to share what they
wrote.
After discussion, I will began
and deliver the History of
Yoga Prezi to the class.
Once the presentation has
ended, I will assess the
students knowledge of what
was just presented by passing
around a [TBA]. Each student
will have an opportunity to list
2 facts she learned from the
presentation.
Once the discussion about the
History of Yoga has
commenced, I will start the 22
min yoga DVD.
Once the DVD practice has
ended, I will ask the students
to each demonstrate a pose
that she learned and liked.

the DVD and liked.