Indoor Outdoor - Outcome D (10-30)-2

Students play a game of pool hockey at the local pool. Outfit each student with a mask and snorkel. There are special "U" shaped sticks that fit around the puck for this game, but anything you can find to move the puck underwater is fine. Students can even use their hands to push the puck along the bottom. By spreading their thumb away from the rest of their hand it forms a pocket to push the puck. Ensure that the students are familiar with the use of the mask and snorkel. They should be able to go underwater, and come up and expel the water in the snorkel without taking the mask off.

How To Play:

• Drop a hockey puck into the pool at the center of the boundary they are playing in.
• Students push the puck along the bottom of the pool until they score.
• A point is scored by getting a player on their team to lift the puck to the side of the pool and place it on the side. If you have underwater goals that also works well.

Before exiting the pool discuss the following:

• How was hockey modified to be played in a different environment? How does this encourage ongoing participation in the sport?
• What other sports have been modified to encourage ongoing participation in another season? Examples could include roller blade ball hockey, basketball in the pool, or snowshoe baseball. Cross-country skis with wheels are used for off-season training.
• Why are modifications made to activities (e.g., to increase participation, to increase fan appeal).
• Brainstorm ways to modify activities to encourage ongoing participation. Inform students that they will be forming groups next class to modify an existing game to fit into an alternative environment.

Discuss what the alternative environment's dimension includes and give the students time to write up their activity. Allow the groups to try their modified game. This is beneficial and fun.

Have the students discuss the modification of activities that they know of, without providing a written portion. Ask them to describe how the modification encourages ongoing participation.

These are clues that you have reached the outcomes ...

Students easily brainstorm examples of activities that have been modified to increase participation.

Students can identify some of their peers who are involved in activities that have been modified.

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