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
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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
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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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