EQUIPMENT:
OUTCOMES:
The student will:
1. Demonstrate agility and cooperation during Frozen Tag during the Introductory Activity.
2. Perform Four Corners Fitness to improve endurance, flexibility and strength.
3. Participate in stations to improve his/her swings for the game of softball as demonstrated by the instructor.
4. Play Speedy Softball in two teams demonstrating cooperative and strength skills.
NATIONAL STANDARDS: 1-5
INSTRUCTIONS:
Students move in a designated area, when tagged they freeze. They can be unfrozen when someone runs around them three times.
TEACHING HINTS:
Scattered formation
When a person is running around a frozen person, they cannot be tagged.
INSTRUCTIONS:
A large rectangle is formed using four cones as markers. Students move continually around the perimeter of the rectangle. At each corner, a different movement is performed. Examples of activity alternatives that can be performed on the long sides of the rectangle are jogging, power skipping, sliding, jumping, and hopping. On the short sides of the rectangle, movements requiring slower, more concentrated attention (for example, lunges and inchworms) can be performed.
Locomotor aerobic activities to direct: Skipping; Jogging; Sliding; Running backwards; Jumping; Leaping; Hopping; Galloping.
Follow aerobic work with stretching activities such as Lower leg stretch; Balance beam stretch; Groin stretch; Cross-legged stretch; twisting; Standing hip bend, etc.
TEACHING HINTS:
An interesting variation is to set up tumbling activities or tires and challenge students to go over, around, and through them. The need for continuous movement should be emphasized, and the rectangle should be large enough to provide a challenging workload for the cardiorespiratory system.
Use signs on cones that list the exercises, stretching, and aerobic activities students are to perform as they pass a cone. Place 2-3 activities on each cone so students have some choices of activities to do.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SOFTBALL STATIONS:
Swing it!
Station 1: Drop ball
Student drops a ball from behind the batter and batter has to hit the ball before it hits the ground
Station 2: Pepper
Use the game of pepper for bat control
Station 3: Tee
Place 1 tee in the inside corner, 1 tee on the outside corner. One person will call out inside or outside for the batter to hit.
Station 4: Racquet Swinging
Use a tennis racquet to hit wiffle balls. The face of the racquet should hit the ball.
TEACHING HINTS:
Goal is to hit the ball on the ground and not in the air.
Always use safety precautions when a bat is in play.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Speedy Softball is played like regular softball with the following exceptions:
INSTRUCTIONS:
Does your swing or the bat position change when hitting an inside and outside pitch?
Which pitch is easier to hit, inside or outside?
Cheer: I am a homerun hitter!