Skipping Mania - Outcome D (4-6)-9

Plan a skip-a-thon at your school. The activity could take place within individual physical education classes or it could be a school-wide activity held during a lunch hour.

Students will have had time to practice and learn various skipping tricks such as…

Skipping Routines

On the actual day of the event, posters with these various tricks can be posted throughout the gymnasium.

In conjunction with your event or as a lead-in to it, you could invite a skipping demonstration team to visit the school to get your students in the "skipping mood".

Invite a guest aerobic instructor to lead your group in a warmup, and then let the skipping begin! The Heart and Stroke Foundation will provide excellent information on how to organize this event.

Invite parents and other guests to participate or just watch. If you have prizes to award, parents or guests can help out with the judging. Plan activities for everyone including parents and guests.

Throughout the event, you could hold various challenges in a designated area. Some challenges may include a contest to see who can skip for the longest time without stopping, various speeds of skipping, backwards skipping, tricks, and skipping with the eyes closed. Also allow room for long rope, freestyle, Double Dutch, and partner skipping.

Invite a local high school to help with the organization and provide some skippers to encourage the younger students.

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

Students are interested in information about skipping teams.

Students and others are actively participating in the event.

Students are jumping rope at recess and during other breaks.

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