Here's the Layout...

The classroom I’m in is a typical middle school physical education gym. There is a basketball court in the middle, with medium sized bleachers on one side. There are two locker rooms, one for the girls and one for the boys, with a storage room in between the rooms. There is also another gym at the other end of the building. It is used for the smaller kids in the school, grades K through fifth and is much smaller than the gym for the middle school students. It does not even contain bleachers. In the big gym, that the middle school kids use, there is direct access to the outside. When it’s nice outside, the teachers have the option of taking the kids outside to play in the field nearby. This school is fairly new, and has modern and updated technology. They are fortunate enough to have access to a projector that can be set up and projected onto the walls of the gym. They use this on special occasions to play Wii Fit. I recently observed them playing “Just Dance”. Surprisingly, all of the kids were into it. Although four students can actually only play the game at one time, everyone gets up and dances along to the songs. I was very impressed that this game made eighth graders want to dance in front of their peers. They also have a surround sound stereo system and microphone, which the teachers use to start off every class. They turn on a popular song and that’s the students sign class has started and they need to run to get warmed up. The only flaw I can see in the set up of the gym and the locker rooms, is there is not a lot of room for storage. They store mats in the locker room and everything else is jammed into a small storage room between the locker rooms. The rules for the class, such as proper dress and expectations are posted in each locker room. Tornado and fire drill escape routes are posted by the gym entrance.