Grade 5: Movement
(Alternative-Environment Activities)

This sub-organizer contains the following sections:
Prescribed Learning Outcomes
Suggested Instructional Strategies
Suggested Assessment Strategies
Recommended Learning Resources

Prescribed Learning Outcomes

It is expected that students will:

demonstrate activity-specific motor skills in a variety of alternative environments
participate safely in activities in a natural or alternative setting

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Suggested Instructional Strategies

Students participate in a variety of activities in a natural or alternative setting. Activities could take place outdoors, perhaps in a wilderness setting, local park, or outdoors school. Students will discover links between active living and our environment.

Strategies:

Have students participate in a vigorous walking program in preparation for hiking, orienteering, snowshoeing, or skiing.
Have students prepare a first-aid kit and safety provisions for a one- to three-day outdoor trip.
Discuss ways to adapt to outdoor conditions in any season. Include ways to prevent hyperthermia or hypothermia.
Use seasonal clothing to demonstrate ways to prevent hypothermia, heat exhaustion, and so forth.
Role-play first-aid situations, and have students work individually or in teams to attend to the injuries.
Have students read and design maps, identifying cardinal directions and following directions to complete an activity-station circuit.
Have students plan meals for a one- to three-day trip, selecting appropriate foods.
Invite a local conservation officer or a guest speaker from an outdoors school or parks agency to speak about protecting the environment while visiting a wilderness area.
Have students participate in activities at an outdoors school. The program could include land- and water-based activities (e.g., orienteering, following a map while hiking, environmental awareness, plant and animal identification).
Have students work in small groups to solve problems while participating in outdoor activities, such as scavenger hunts, wall climbing, or relay races.

Suggested Assessment Strategies

Ask students to create a map, with directions, for an outdoor environment near the school. This could be the playground or a nearby park. Note the accuracy and efficiency of their responses. Invite them to explain their choice of location.
- Check the accuracy of their map by exchanging with partners. Have them write journal entries on the processes used to develop the map, and their partner's findings.
- Examine their work for accuracy, scale, and complexity.
- Note the extent to which students persevere with the task.
With partners, have students write a rap on the importance of respecting the environment and safety while engaged in outdoor activities. Have students present their rap to the class. Have peers evaluate the presentation, looking for evidence that the presenters included information on:
- ways to demonstrate respect for the environment
- leaving the area as it was found
- safety skills needed to participate safely in the activity