Rock Climbing Lesson Plan – Monday – Dynamic PE ASAP Pages

Rock Climbing Lesson Plan 1 - Monday

EQUIPMENT:

Music for Jackpot Fitness & Introductory activity
Task Sheet 1 for each student
Jackpot Cards for fitness
2 Lengths of ¼” nylon rope per student

OUTCOMES:

The student will:

Participate in Move and Perform a Stretch demonstrating stretching skills, agility, and following the instructions described by the instructor.
Participate in Jackpot Fitness to improve aerobic endurance, strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility during the Fitness section of class.
Demonstrate rope knot tying using Task Sheet 1.
Participate in Snowball Relay demonstrating safety rules and activities.

NATIONAL STANDARDS: 1-5

Move and Perform a Stretch

INSTRUCTIONS:

Students move throughout area in designated manner while the music is playing. When music stops, they stop and perform a stretching activity lead by teacher or selected student.

TEACHING HINTS:

Bring students together in a scattered formation.

Use cones to designate activity area.

Jackpot Fitness

INSTRUCTIONS:

Three different “jackpots” (boxes) are filled with fitness exercises and activities are placed around the teaching area. One jackpot is filled with a variety of strength development activities written on small index cards. A second jackpot is filled with flexibility activities. The third jackpot contains aerobic activities. Students can work individually or with a partner. They begin at one of the jackpots of choice and randomly pick out an activity to perform. If with a partner, they take turns selecting the card from the box. The only stipulations are that they must rotate to a different box each time and cannot select an activity they previously performed. If they pick an activity they performed on a previous stop, they return it to the jackpot and select another.

Aerobic Jackpot

Carioca around the basketball court.
Perform a “mirror drill” with your partner for 30 seconds.
Jump rope using both slow and fast time.
Tortoise and Hare/Running in place.
Marching with high steps around the area.

Strength Jackpot

Perform Abdominal Challenges
Perform Push-up Challenges
Do the Treadmill exercise
Do as many Power Jumpers as possible
Perform as many Crab Kicks as possible.

Flexibility Jackpot

Perform the Bend and Twist exercise.
Stretch using the Sitting Stretch.
Stretch using the Lower Leg Stretch.
Do the Standing Hip Bend.
Perform the Body Twist.

TEACHING HINTS:

Allow students to adjust the workload to their level. This implies resting if the rope jumping is too strenuous.

A music interval of 30 seconds signals the duration of fitness activity followed by 10 to 15 second interval used for selecting a new activity from a different jackpot.

Students are expected to perform as many repetitions as possible while the music is playing.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Rope and Knot Tying – See Task Sheet 1 below.

Discuss safety issues of knot tying on a harness.

Demonstrate tying of:

Double figure eight and follow through knot

Double figure eight with a bite knot

Explain task sheets.

For a school curriculum related to climbing walls, check the following website: https://everlastclimbing.com/collections

TEACHING HINTS:

Have each student get an equipment package and task

sheets. Students practice knot tying using the Task Sheet instructions. Check each knot.

For more information:

Benge, M. and Raleigh, D., Climbing Rock, Carbondale, CO, Elk Mountain Press, 1995.

Long, J., How to Rock Climb, Evergreen, CO, Chockstone Press, 1993.

Snowball Relay

INSTRUCTIONS:

This relay is like the fetch relay, except that after 1 person has been fetched, both players run back and pick up another player. The pattern continues until all squad members are running back and forth, picking up the remaining members.

TEACHING HINTS:

Use Whistle Mixer to create line/squads of 5-6.

Modify the game with the introduction of two separate teams. The team that catches the most people or has more people in their line at the end, wins the relays.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Explain a benefit of Aerobic Workouts.

Why is it important to warm up before climbing? Why is it important to be able to properly tie the two knots?

When do you use the double figure eight with a bite?

Cheer: We love rock climbing!

Rock Climbing Lesson Plan 1 - Monday

Move and Perform a Stretch

Jackpot Fitness

Snowball Relay

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