Review nonlocomotor actions and terminology to help students understand the concept of nonlocomotor skills. Nonlocomotor skills can include turning, twisting, swinging, balancing, bending, landing, stretching, curling, and hanging, as listed in the Program of Studies for Physical Education.

Arrange the students so that they all have space around them. Create scenarios for children to respond to such as:

• Pretend each child is a seed that has been planted. The children use nonlocomotor actions to demonstrate how the seed grows and the flower blooms and then wilts as they twist and turn out of the soil.
• Children pretend to be a deflated balloon that is slowly blown up. They are tied to the ground so they cannot float away but they bounce up and down slowly, showing how the air moves them. Then they spring a leak and slowly become deflated once again.
• Children pretend to be a dinosaur or chick in an egg. They prepare to be hatched and then break out of their shells.

Children could come up with their own scenarios either individually or with a partner. They could practice these and have others guess what action they are depicting.

These are clues that you have reached the outcomes ...

Children are able to create a story using nonlocomotor movements. The stories have clear beginnings and endings.

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