Motor: Students will hold the giraffe pose while standing up straight while arms are fully extended vertically for 20 seconds during the activity in ¾ trial when verbally prompted by the instructor.
Cognitive: Students will be able to identify a series of poses to which animal it corresponds to when shown an image of the pose during the reflection portion of the activity, when verbally prompted
Affective: Students will give themselves a high five with a verbal prompt at the end of the activity.
The instructor will introduce the activity that is being taught which is Zoo Adventure Yoga. The instructor will explain that students will be doing a series of yoga poses that will correspond to a certain zoo animal. There will be two images/poses to let students choose whichever they feel confident/comfortable performing, for a duration of thirty seconds for each animal.
Yoga Poses:
Monkey: Students will have feet a little past their shoulders with apart, with a slight lunge with their dominant foot. Arms will be horizontal with shoulders.
Hippo: Students will sit on their knees and lean their body forward towards the ground. Arms will be close and parallel to legs.
Giraffe: Student will stand up straight, and have arms reaching the sky vertically.
Panda: Student will place lets wide past shoulder width apart, and arms will be up high diagonally lining up with opposite legs.
Elephant: Student will stand up straight, and arms will in front of student with a slight angled up diagonally.
Crocodile: student will get on all four and hold a plank position
Lion: Students will stand on knees and hand, while having head forward holding position
