Super Circuit - Outcome D (4-6)-2

Students are allowed to create their own station, which will be part of the Super Circuit or name of school circuit. Each student can select two or three pieces of equipment from the equipment room or from a pile the teacher has set out. The equipment may be optional.

Each station is designed for individual students. Equipment or activities that require more than one person are not appropriate (e.g., a long skipping rope that requires two people to turn it).

The purpose of the activity is to have the students come up with easy-to-do stations that everyone can participate in. The stations should raise the students' heart rates to different levels by demanding easy, moderate, and high levels of intensity.

Once each student has designed their station they must show it to the teacher to ensure that it is safe and practical. The stations are not supposed to be difficult but must provide an opportunity to raise the heart rate of the participant. The focus is on moderate skill, maximum participation.

Once the stations have been checked, the students gather around each station in turn while the creator of that station explains the activity.

How To Play:

• Each student is given a blank card or piece of paper where they enter the name of the station they are at before starting the activity. Different students will go to different stations throughout the class so it is important that they record the correct station (see Teaching Tips for examples).
• On the word "go", the teacher will time the students for three or four minutes, and then say "stop". (The timing must be consistent for each rotation.)
• On the word "stop", each student finds their pulse and counts it for 15 seconds, then multiplies by four and records that on their paper next to that station.
• Students rotate one station to the right, write down the station name, and make sure they understand what they have to do.
• On the word "go" they perform the activity at that station for three or four minutes.
• Follow the above procedure, and repeat it at the next station, and so on.
• Repeat this through four or five rotations and then stop until next class. That way the students may stay more motivated.
• Compare the heart rates for different stations.

Did you raise your heart rate? Did it become more elevated at one station than another? Why? What activities raised your heart rate the most?

Pair up the students if the group is large and space or equipment is limited.

Allow each student to create a station on the first day, but use only six or seven a day. You will not get through all of them in one class.

Use heart rate monitors to more accurately measure and compare heart rates.

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

Students are excited about starting the Super Circuit or name of school Circuit.

Students enthusiastically complete each station and record their results properly so they can be compared the next day.

Students recognize a direct relationship between the amount of effort required to do something and the impact it has on increasing their heart rate.

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