Lesson Plan – Cooperative Games

I. Island Hopping

a. Class Name: All grades 4 – 6

b. Skill Level: Control to utilization

c. Length of Time: 45 minutes

d. Number of Meetings: 1^st class meeting

e. Major Focus: Cognitive and Affective skills, teamwork, strategy,

f. Sub-focus: Balancing, body control

II. Safety

a. Activity: spatial awareness, student must stay under control at all times, sit, kneel, or lay on the scooter only, hold the handles on the scooter, all students must get off of the equipment and sit properly when they hear the “freeze” cue

b. Organizational: students must enter the gymnasium quietly and walk to an open space on the floor, students are not to touch any equipment when entering the gymnasium, students must wait quietly on a designated line before exiting the gymnasium, “no interference” rule

III. Equipment

a. 9 hula hoops

b. 3 scooters

c. 3 long jump ropes

IV. Objectives

a. Psychomotor: the student will perform proper balancing and body control skills when:

1. traveling on scooter

2. moving from scooter to hula hoop

Cues: body control

b. Cognitive: the student will show an understanding of teamwork by:

1. thinking of 3 qualities that make a team successful

2. planning a strategy

3. working as an important part of a team

4. choosing a team spokesperson and volunteering one quality to the instructor

Cues: the cues will be written on the white board by the instructor

c. Affective: the student will demonstrate:

1. good sportsmanship in one’s own team as well as towards other teams

2. willingness to share and take turns

3. ability to discuss ideas with the team

Cues: sharing, take turns, sportsmanship

V. Instant Activity

Fitness Warm Ups

1. Jog in place (1 min)

2. Jumping Jacks (20)

3. Push Ups (10)

4. Curl Ups (10)

5. Sit and Reach (10 sec)

6. Alternate legs – soul of shoe to inside of knee (10 sec)

7. Butterfly Stretch (10 sec)

8. Alternate Arms – triceps extensions over head (10 sec)

9. Alternate Arms – triceps extensions front of body (10 sec)

10. Shoulder & Neck Stretch (10 sec)

Student Leader – leads warm ups

Student’s performance evaluated by self, other students, and teacher

Criteria for evaluation – voice, role modeling, knowledge

VI. Organization

a. Initiation

Instant Activity

Attendance

Focus of Activity

Sub-focus of Activity

Groups – discussion, each group’s ideas will be written on the white board for debriefing after the activity

Demonstration

Safety Concerns

b. Content

Each team begins on one side of the gym

Three hula hoops are placed 15 feet apart in a straight line in front of each team

Each team has a scooter and a long jump rope

Each team must successfully move each team member from one end line to the other without touching any body part on the floor

A student can only touch a body part on the floor if he/she is inside one of the hula hoops

If a body part does touch the floor the entire team must start again from the beginning

There is no limit as to how many students can occupy a hula hoop at one time

There are no right or wrong ways to accomplish this task

The students must rely on strategy, creativity, and trial and error in order to succeed

c. Floor Plan (See Diagram)

d. Closure

Debriefing

Whole class discussion

Were all of the objectives met?

What did each team do well?

What could each team have done better?

Was this activity fun?

Diagram

Cooperative Games – Island Hopping

Gymnasium