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**YOGA BENEFITS DIGESTION** ** LESSON PLAN PAGE ** Home Task Resources

** TEACHER INFORMATION ** This page is for the teacher to be able to base the lesson planning around for the four weeks that assignment is taking place. The teacher page offers ideas and confidence for you to be able to explain the assignment and learning objectives to the students. Below is just a suggested lesson schedule to give you some ideas:

**SUGGESTED LEARNING SCHEDULE: **
__** WEEK ONE **__ In this first week it is all about introducing the topic and the assignment that needs to be submitted at the start of week 4. To start the week you need too:
 * YOGA POSES AND BENEFITS **
 * Introduce yoga and how it is good for the body and in particular the digestive system. This is the introduction of the topic and probably the first time that some of the students have heard about the benefits of yoga so it needs to be done from a beginners view. Different sources of information and websites for this can be accessed from the resource page.
 * You will then need to introduce the assignment. A full assignment of this can be found on the home page.
 *  Introduce the yoga poses that have been chosen to use that is mainly focusing on the digestive system. Give a brief overview of each pose and how it benefits the digestive system.
 * Split the class into groups of three or four. You can do this either by letting them choose themselves or assigning groups.
 * Assign the yoga poses. One to each group.

For the week it will be focusing on how yoga is good for the body. Remember that they will also need to focus some attention on the writing part of the assignment and so this week will be good to get a head start.

[] http://yogakids.com/toolsforschools/tfs-goals.html

http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/finder/anatomical_focus/digestive_organs
 * Choosing a Yoga pose: **

__**WEEK TWO**__ These lessons are to focus on the digestive system and how this can help the yoga poses that each group has been assigned. Remember to allow time for the students to work on their assignment.
 * DIGESTIVE SYSTEM AND FOOD CHOICES **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Explain to the students what happens with the digestive system.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Explain why it is important that the digestive system needs to be aided by the yoga poses that havbreneen chosen.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Explain why healthy foodchoices are important. Touch lightly on obesity and othe diseases related to this issue such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

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__**<span style="color: #2148d4; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">WEEK THREE **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This week is all about focusing on the technology that you are going to use while the students are completing this assignment.
 * <span style="color: #2552f8; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">USING TECHNOLOGY **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The students need to create a video within this assignment.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">These videos will be created during school time under the guidance of you as the teacher using a video camera.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Students will also need to take in turns on the class website playing around and working out how to use it. The class website will be a yola site. The website can be used so students can ask each other questions and discuss the topics on hand.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">As the class has been separated into groups, you can then set 2 or 3 groups aside to work on an interactive whiteboard. This is to learn about yoga and the digestive system while also focusing on using technology that is becoming so popular in the class room today.

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__**<span style="color: #134cdd; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">WEEK FOUR **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This week will be all about presenting the videos that the students have created.
 * PRESENTING **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Each group is to take in turns to present their videos.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Encourage the groups to get up the front and demonstrate their positions while the video is playing.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The students in the different groups need to explain how their particular yoga pose aids digestion.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Continue doing this until all the videos are submitted.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Make very clear to the students that the assignment is not completely submitted until they upload it to the class website that will be createdwas a yola site.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The research will also need to be submitted as a hard copy in a PowerPoint presentation.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Inform the students that the yoga videos will then be presented to their parents at the end of term.

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 * <span style="color: #0737d5; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">TEACHER RESOURCES **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Helpful websites with information, images, and activities: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmGT_1tq178&feature=player_embedded#! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">http://www.care2.com/greenliving/1-yoga-poses-to-improve-your-digestion.html <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">www.yogacards.com/yoga-postures.html <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">http://www.dlshq.org/download/easysteps.pdf <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">www.aryasamaj.org/newsites/files_newsites/yoga_manual.pdf