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Sample Dynamic Learning session for Mid School

Session Components: Circle warm up | Primal Pattern Push & Pull | Mirror your partner | Embodied emotions : Gratitude & Maverick Affirmations

Class: VII

Chapter id: 1S7S27

Every student must 

* respond to the session activities willingly and enthusiastically 

* be motivated, foster self-confidence and build competency in the skills being taught 

* learn and understand the value of the movements by respecting self and others in the spatial setting.

Every student must 

* reproduce with sync to rhythm and peers the movements in the circle warm up.  

* demonstrate with competency the movements of burpees, partner row, pike push up, pull in tug of war, boxing on a punching bag and wheelbarrow walk.

* be competent with their reaction time to quickly mirror their partner.

Every student must 

* embody the emotion of gratitude and perform movements creatively to depict the same

* display their creativity while waiting in line for their turn during the primal pattern activity and during the mirror your partner activity

* internalise the Maverick Affirmation.

Every student must 

* identify and distinguish the push and pull patterns demonstrated in the primal pattern activity  

* understand and be able to execute the difference between copying and mirroring their partner

* infer from the embodied emotions activity the relationship between emotion and body through their movements

Setting the Stage:

Circle Warm up 

Teaching Strategy:

Command & Practice Style

Dynamic Learning

Primal Pattern: Push & Pull

Teaching Strategy:

Practice Style & Inclusion

Dynamic Learning

Mirror your Partner 

Teaching Strategy:

Reciprocal and Inclusion

Embodied Emotions:

Gratitude & Affirmations

Teaching Strategy:

Self Reflection

Classroom Interaction:
* How do you distinguish between a push and a pull movement? Can you demonstrate with some examples not done during this session?
* What do you mean by embodied emotions? Why should we consciously feel the emotion?

Home Challenge:
* Write a letter of gratitude to anyone who has made a difference in your life.
* Login to the Maverick app to learn to perform the push and pull activities

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