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TIC TAC TOE-BASKET / TIC TAC TOE PYRAMID
This fast paced activity is great for practicing basketball
shooting skills, team work and to learn the tic-tac-toe game.
Facilities:
Two basketball hoops
Draw a big tic-tac-toe board (about 4ft per side each square)
Equipment:
3-4 basketballs per team
Number of participants:
5-8 per team
How to play it:
Teams line up in front of the basketball hoop. The Tic-tac-toe board is drawn at the center of the basketball court. One team will be the “X’s” and another the “O’s”. The “X’s” will hold their arms open wide over their head, while the “O’s” will hold their arms forming a circle over their head. Students take turns shooting baskets. When they make a basket, the student runs to take a spot in the TIC TAC TOE board using the “x” or “o” position. When either of the teams completes a line (as in a tic-tac-toe game), everybody returns to their team and continue playing. Once a student has chosen a square, he/she is not allowed to change squares.
Alternatives
TIC TAC TOE PYRAMID: Place a pile of 6 buckets for each team at the center of the court. When a student scores a basket, runs to the center, picks up a bucket and puts the first one for a 6-bucket pyramid. The team that first completes a pyramid wins / start over.
Require a specific form of locomotion to go to the tic-tac-toe board
Require a specific shooting technique
Require a specific shooting distance FAHPERD 2010 CONVENTION
Luisa Meyer-Meagan Smith/Garden Grove Elementary/Winter Haven / luisameyer00@gmail.com Rock/paper/scissors/Tag!!!
Make teams of 5-6 players. Each team makes a line in front of another team. The first
players come to the center, play R/P/S. The winner chases the loser. If loser is tagged,
he/she must go to the other team. The next players come to play. When a team has no
more participants, the game is over and they can re-start. Mosquito, bears, salmon: (I learned this one in a Project Adventure workshop)
Teams (5-30 players) huddle to decide if they will be mosquitoes, bears, or salmon (Mosquitoes sting bears/bears eat salmon/salmon eat mosquitoes). They then stand facing each other on a line about 3-4 feet apart. On the count of 3 they show their animal (mosquitoes: hold nose with one hand and extend the other in front buzzing / bears: raise both claws up in the air while growling / salmon: hands together in front, waving them like a fish, making fish noises). When they realize who gets who, they must run and try to tag the opposite team’s players, bringing them to their group. Let them know they should not get too attached to their teams as teams will change after each play. The game is over when one team has run out of players.
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FAHPERD 2010 CONVENTION
Luisa Meyer-Meagan Smith/Garden Grove Elementary/Winter Haven / luisameyer00@gmail.com MAKE IT TAKE IT!
Tossing-throwing skills, locomotion skills, math and spelling skills.
Spread numbered polyspots and 5-6 hoops in a basketball court. Students are
paired up behind cones. Each pair has one bean bag.
Students must walk/hop/skip, etc. to a polyspot and from there toss/throw/
slide the bean bag trying to score inside the hoop. If they make it, they take the
polyspot, retrieve their bean bag and go back to the cone to give the bean bag
to the partner. Play until all spots are gone!
At the end, add, multiply, subtract, divide their numbers. See which team has
the most polyspots, higher totals, more odd or even numbers, a multiple of a
specific number, etc.
Variation 1: Raffle (“Who has a multiple of 7?”– the group that has it gets to
pick up the polyspots from the others and spread them around the court. Students love this part!).
Variation 2: write a letter behind each polyspot. At the end, have students write the longest word/ the most amount of words with the letters retrieved, or a word from the current spelling list for the class. PRE-PACKAGED WARM-UPS and FUN DANCE/RHYTHM ACTIVITIES
Song: The Lion Sleeps Tonight
(When you hear “the lion sleeps tonight” jump and make full turn)
Wee-iiii-… mammawae… - Stretch as high as you can
A-win-ma-wae – Jumping Jacks
In the Jungle… - push-ups
In the village… - sit-ups
Clarinet solo – bicycle kicks
Hush my darling - lunges
Wee-iiii-… mammawae – stretch touching toes
Song: Stomp and Clap (Learning Station – Physical Ed)
Stomp-stomp-clap … stomp your foot and clap your hands to the beat
Mary Mary quite contrary… DANCING STEPS: 1,2,3,4 steps forward-clap, 1,2,3,4 steps back-clap – 1,2,3,4 skipping forward, 1,2,3,4 skipping backward – 1,2,3,4 grapevine right, 1,2,3,4 grapevine left – 1,2,3,4 grapevine right with turn, 1,2,3,4 grapevine left with turn.
Put your hands down by your side… face partner, clap, high 5 opposite hands, repeat.
Eenie-meenie-…. DANCING STEPS
Put your hands down by your side… face partner, clap, high 5 opposite hands, while walking in circles around each other, repeat
Jack & Jill went up the hill… DANCING STEPS
Put your hands down by your side… back to back, turn to one side and clap opposite hands, repeat to the other side.
Mary had a little lamb… DANCING STEPS
Put your hands down by your side… Over under: partners hold both hands up high and move around weaving under or over other pairs (organized chaos!!!)
ALTERNATIVE VERSION FOR K-1: Have children stand in a circle. Stomp and clap (same as above), then hold hands and take 4 steps forward, 4 steps back (4 sets), walk in circle holding hands until the next Stomp-clap. Great for learning basic rhythm, and following instructions. My kids love it! 5,6,7,8: Students stand beside a partner.
1,2,3, clap forward / 1,2,3, clap back (repeat 2 times)
Jumping jacks 1,2,3, clap (repeat 2 times)
Turn to right – clap / turn to left – clap
Pairs 1: hold hands and walk in circles
Pairs 2: hook elbows and walk in circles
Pairs 3: hold one hand up high and walk in circles
Pairs 4: Hold hands up high and go over-under any other pair. GREAT FOR K-2
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INDEPENDENT GROUP WORK: This type of station work promotes leadership, student responsibility and owning the effort in class. The teacher can go around checking and giving feedback. Great class activity to review already taught skills, and include fitness activities.
Make groups of 3-4 students.
Select a team leader (oldest, youngest, longest first name, longest hair, shortest hair, intermediate height, etc.) Give each team leader a task card and tell leaders to walk around the stations to locate them and get an idea of what they are.
All task cards are similar, except they have a mark by one of the stations. This is the station in which the group must begin working.
When the leaders are back, groups begin going from station to station, completing all tasks.
ALTERNATIVE: For younger students, make teams and have them go from station to station following the teacher stop/go signals. Sit & Reach Push-ups on Bench Dribble w/Preferred Hand Fancy Dribble Jog One Lap Monkey in the Middle Upstack/Downstack Bounce – shoot baskets FAHPERD 2010 CONVENTION
Luisa Meyer-Meagan Smith/Garden Grove Elementary/Winter Haven / luisameyer00@gmail.com