EQUIPMENT:
OUTCOMES:
The student will:
NATIONAL STANDARDS: 1-5
INSTRUCTIONS:
Students jog around the area, when a signal is given, they change direction. To increase the challenge, combine compass directions with the turn. For example, call out, “45 degree turn north.”
TEACHING HINTS:
Scattered formation
Specify type of angle, i.e., right, obtuse, 45-degree.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Students do the best they can at each station within the time limit. This implies that not all youngsters are required to do the same workload. Students differ and their ability to perform fitness workloads varies. Make fitness a personal challenge.
Rope Jumping
Push-Ups
Agility Run
Lower Leg Stretch
Juggling Scarves
Curl-Ups with Twist
Alternate Leg Extension
Tortoise and Hare
Bear Hug
Conclude circuit training with 2-4 minutes of walking, jogging, rope jumping or other self-paced aerobic activity
TEACHING HINTS:
Tape alternating segments of silence and music to signal duration of exercise. Music segments (begin at 35 seconds) indicate activity at each station while intervals of silence (10 seconds) announce it is time to stop and move forward to the next station.
Use signals such as start, stop, and move up to ensure rapid movement to the next station.
Ask students to do their personal best they can. Expect workloads to differ.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Rhythmic Gymnastics Ball Activities
Rolling: In a sitting position: Roll ball under the legs, around the back; around the body; down the legs; down the arms; down the legs, lift legs and toss the ball off the toes into the air and catch.
Bouncing: Combine basketball-dribbling drills with graceful body movements; execute locomotor dance-type movements while bouncing.
Toss and catch the ball while on sitting/kneeling on floor, walking, skipping, galloping, leaping, and running.
Swinging: Swing ball in front of body from side to side. Circle ball around body, neck, legs and around palm. Let ball rest on palm of hand as you turn around.
TEACHING HINTS:
In handling the ball, the fingers should be closed slightly bent, with the ball resting in the palm. In wing, the ball can roll from the fingertips
Locomotor suggestions: Chase, slides, run and leap, skip, walk on toes, etc.
Use one hand only while tossing and catching the ball.
Try each hand. Perform body waves with the ball.
The ball must rest lightly in the palm while the movements are performed. No gripping of ball with fingers is permitted.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Partners can keep score or just free throwing and catching.
1 hand catch = 2 points
2 hand catch = 1 point
Keep score to 20 points and then start over.
TEACHING HINTS:
Demonstrate throwing and catching a Frisbee.
Use back-to-back with a new person to create partners. One person puts a hand on their head. The person with his hand on his head is to go and get a Frisbee for the pair and return to the partner.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Were there any fitness activities you did today that were particularly difficult and need more work?
What muscles were used in class today?
Which of the Rhythmic Gymnastics ball activities that you did today were the best? Were any of them hard to do?
Cheer: Frisbee, yea!