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Standards

Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry with them years beyond the instruction received this year.

• A complete fitness program promotes participation in grade level skills and activities that build health and wellness including cardiovascular, flexibility, body composition, muscular strength and endurance, and lifetime activity.

• Good sportsmanship includes following rules of play and being responsible for yourself and the safety of others.

• We can increase our health and wellness by participating in the physical activities we lead or participate in by ourselves and with others.

• Rules help keep games and activities safe and fair.

Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.

• Why do we have to be responsible for our own behavior?

• What is the purpose for rules of play in athletic or competitive sports?

• How do class rules and team rules help make competitive sports and individual sports more enjoyable?

• Why is cooperation important in games and in life?

• How does cooperation in games impact the final outcome?

• What does good sportsmanship look like?

Standard 1: Demonstrates skills in a variety of activities
Benchmark: Loco motor, non-loco motor, manipulative skill development and movement
District Indicator: Repeatedly performs loco motor, non-loco motor, and manipulative skills in isolation and combination
Standard 2: Exhibits components of physical fitness
District Indicator: Demonstrates cardiovascular endurance
District Indicator: Demonstrates flexibility
District Indicator: Demonstrates muscular strength and endurance
Standard Three: 3.1 Participates in a variety of activities
Standard Four: Demonstrates knowledge in team and individual sports.
Standard Five: Demonstrates the knowledge necessary to participate in physical activity; safe use and respect of equipment.
Standard Six: 6.1 Works cooperatively with others.
Essential Skills
Demonstrates loco motor, non-loco motor, and manipulative skills in isolation and combination
Cardiovascular - Participated in games that increase breathing, heart rate, sustains activity for increasingly longer periods of time.
Participates in a variety of physical activity.
Demonstrates appropriate use of all equipment and facilities.
Accepts appropriate behavior for winning and losing.
Works cooperatively with others.

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Lesson 1: Icebreakers and Get to Know You Activities
Duration: The Icebreaker lesson is 30 - 35 minutes long.

Activities:

Have You Ever...? (10 – 15 minutes)
• Explain and demonstrate “Have You Ever...?” icebreaker.
• Have the students play “Have You Ever…?”
• This is an active, fun group activity that explores and celebrates the differences of each person in the group. The group is asked a series of questions and if question applies to them they are to acknowledge or must change seats.

Human Knot (15 – 20 minutes)
• Explain and demonstrate “Human Knot”.
• Have the students play “Human Knot”.
• This is a game that involves close proximity. While standing in a circle, students reach across and shake hands with another person. You should have a hold of two different people. The group then tries to unravel the “human knot” by unthreading their bodies without letting go of each other’s hand.

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Lesson 2: Icebreakers and Get to Know You activities.
Duration: The Icebreaker lesson is 30 - 35 minutes long. However, in elementary physical education we typically have stretching, warm-up games, and cardio-vascular activities that are included to make up the remaining 45 minute period.

Activities

Gotchya! (Grab the Finger) (5 – 10 minutes)
• Explain and demonstrate “Gotchya! (Grab the Finger)” icebreaker.
• Have the students play “Gotchya! (Grab the Finger)
• This is a fast moving group activity to get people together and focused. In a circle, place right index finger on next person’s left palm. Try to grab a finger before yours gets grabbed.

Categories (15 – 20 minutes)
• Explain and demonstrate “Categories”
• Have the students play “Categories”
• This is a fun, interactive, introductory get-to-know-you activity. Students organize themselves into smaller groups based on different criteria such as number of siblings, favorite color, etc.

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Lesson 3: Team building and trust building activities.
Duration: The team and trust building lesson is 45 minutes long.

Materials Needed: Mine Field- Markers or rope to create boundaries, bowling pins, bean bags, yarn balls, pool noodles for obstacles, blindfolds (Optional). Wink- Chairs or carpet squares (optional).

Activities

Mine Field (25 – 30 minutes)
• Explain and demonstrate the team building activity “Mine Field”. The “mine field” activity will be set up on one half of the gym and the “wink” activity will be set up in the other half.
• Have the students play “Mine Field”.
• This engaging activity involves communication and trust. Partners direct their blindfolded partner through a mine field of objects.

Wink (10 – 15 minutes)
• Explain and demonstrate the group activity “Wink”. The “wink” activity will be set up on one half of the gym and the “mine field” activity will be set up in the other half.
• Have the students play “Wink”.
• This is an energizing group activity that creates suspense, fun, and physical exercise. There are runners, chasers, and a winker.

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Lesson 4: Team building and cooperative activities.
Duration: The team and cooperative building lesson is 45 minutes long.

Materials Needed: Magic Carpet-The magic carpet consists of a single piece of tarp approximately 4’x 5’ in size. Have four to six carpets. Marble Tubes- One marble tube per student, a variety of marbles, golf balls, or similar rolling objects, and cup or bowl for the nest.

Activities

Magic Carpet (15 – 25 minutes)
• Explain and demonstrate the team building activity “Magic Carpet”. The “magic carpet” activity will be set up on one half of the gym and the “marble tubes” activity will be set up in the other half.
• Have the students play “Magic Carpet”.
• This engaging activity involves communication and teamwork. The team is on a magic carpet ride and must turn the carpet over without touching the ground surrounding the magic carpet.

Marble Tubes (15 – 20 minutes)
• Explain and demonstrate the team building activity “Marble Tubes”. The “marble tubes” activity will be set up on one half of the gym and the “magic carpet” activity will be set up in the other half.
• Have the students play “Marble Tubes”.
• This exciting and engaging activity also involves communication and teamwork. The team must relocate several marbles from point A to point B using only the PVC tubes.

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Lesson 5: Team building and trust building activities.
Duration: The team and trust building lesson is 45 minutes long.

Materials Needed: Toxic Waste- Three sets- One set includes one transfer bucket with ten ropes connected, one “safe” bucket, 16 foam balls. Helium Stick- Four thin, light-weight, 8’ helium sticks. Thin, long dowels can be purchased at any home improvement store.

Activities

Toxic Waste (25 – 30 minutes)
• Explain and demonstrate the team building activity “Toxic Waste”. The “toxic waste” activity will be set up on one half of the gym and the “Helium Stick” activity will be set up in the other half.
• Have the students play “Toxic Waste”.
• The challenge is for the group to transfer “toxic” waste to a safe storage area without dropping it. Using a bucket with ten ropes and handles, the group must work together to dispose of the hazardous material into the safe bucket.

Helium Stick (10 – 15 minutes)
• Explain and demonstrate the team building activity “Helium Stick”. The “helium stick” activity will be set up on one half of the gym and the “toxic waste” activity will be set up in the other half.
• Have the students play “Helium Stick”.
• This is a deceptively simple activity. From two lines facing each other. Lay a long, thin rod on the groups index fingers and ask them to lower it to the ground.

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Lesson 6: Team building and trust building activities. During this lesson, you will assess the class using the assessment rubrics.
Duration: The team and trust building lesson is 45 minutes long.

Materials Needed: Swamp Machine: two eight panel gymnastics mats velcroed together. Lily Pad: 12 – 15 poly spots or carpet squares placed in a figure-eight pattern.

Activities

Swamp Machine (20 – 25 minutes)
• Explain and demonstrate the team building activity “Swamp Machine”. The “Swamp Machine” activity will be set up on one half of the gym and the “Lily Pad” activity will be set up in the other half.
• Have the students play “Swamp Machine”.
• The challenge is for each group to transport their entire group from one side of the gym to the other using the “swamp machine” (velcroed mats) without touching the floor.

Lily Pad (10 – 15 minutes)
• Explain and demonstrate the team building activity “Lily Pad”. The “lily pad” activity will be set up on one half of the gym and the “swamp machine” activity will be set up in the other half.
• Have the students play “Lily Pad”.
• The challenge is to travel through a swamp that has lily pads floating in a figure-eight pattern with the group holding hands without falling into the water.

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Lesson 7: Team building and trust building activities. During this lesson, you will assess the class using the assessment rubrics.
Duration: The team and trust building lesson is 45 minutes long.

Materials Needed: Nitro Crossing- 1-2 Rope swings, 3 – 4 gymnastic mats for each rope swing (to use as a platform, 5 – 6 cones (to use as a trip wire). Do You Love Your Neighbor? – A chair for every person except for the person in the middle.

Activities

Nitro Crossing (20 – 25 minutes)
• Explain and demonstrate the team building activity “Nitro Crossing”. The “Nitro Crossing” activity will be set up on one half of the gym and the “Do You Love Your Neighbor?” activity will be set up in the other half.
• Have the students play “Nitro Crossing”.
• The challenge is for the group to transport the entire group, including a Nitro ball, across the “Nitro Crossing” without having anyone touch the ground or knocking over the trip wire using a swing rope.

Do You Love Your Neighbor? (10 – 15 minutes)
• Explain and demonstrate the team building activity “Do You Love Your Neighbor?” The “Do You Love Your Neighbor?” activity will be set up on one half of the gym and the “nitro crossing” activity will be set up in the other half.
• Have the students play “Do You Love Your Neighbor?”
• The person in the middle asks a single person the question Do You…? The person response with a “yes” or “no”. Players run and switch places while the person in the middle tries to occupy one of those spots.

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Lesson 8: Team building and trust building activities. During this lesson, you will assess the class using the assessment rubrics.
Duration: The team and trust building lesson is 45 minutes long.

Materials Needed: Through the quicksand- Cones to mark off playing area, many hula-hoops, many bean bags, jump ropes. Sneak Attack- Eight cone to mark equipment areas, eight of each: gator skin balls, bean bags, pinnies, jump ropes, tennis balls, etc. Any equipment can be used as long as you have eight pieces of the same equipment.

Activities

Through the Quicksand (15 – 20 minutes)
• Explain and demonstrate the team building activity “Through the Quicksand”. The “Through the Quicksand” activity will be set up on one half of the gym and the “Sneak Attack” activity will be set up in the other half.
• Have the students play “Through the Quicksand”.
• The challenge is for partners to work together to travel safely across the quicksand. One partner will be the travel expert and the other will be the rescue expert. Together, they must find a way to the make it across the quicksand without sinking.

Sneak Attack (25 – 30 minutes)
• Explain and demonstrate the team building activity “Sneak Attack” The “Sneak Attack” activity will be set up on one half of the gym and the “Through the Quicksand” activity will be set up in the other half.
• Have the students play “Sneak Attack”
• Each team will try and gather the same type of equipment while attempting to stop other teams from achieving the same goal.