Week 3

Movement exploration games - Static balance

Equipment

marker cones
bean bag, ball or skittle
music

Download the Week 3 Movement exploration games - Static balance task card to support teaching before and during the sport session.

FMS focus: Static balance

Learning intention

Students are developing proficiency in the static balance.

Success criteria.

Student has:

Non-support leg bent, not touching the support leg.
Head stable, eyes focused forward.
Trunk stable and upright.

When proficient in above, student has:

Support leg still, foot flat on the ground.
No excessive arm movements.

Explicit teaching of the static balance

Model the skill

Model the static balance to students while explaining the components needed to effectively balance.

Say to the students:

- Stand still with your foot flat on the ground.
- Hold your bent leg away from your other leg.
- Look at something in front of you.
- Stand up tall when you balance.
- Relax your arms.

Guided practice with immediate teacher feedback:

Hoop hop

Place ten hoops randomly in a designated area. Students hop inside the area between the hoops until the teacher calls a number. The students then hop to a hoop. When they are in the hoop students form a group of the size called by the teacher.

Skill development games

FMS focus activity - Nose and toe tag

FMS focus: Static balance

Equipment: Marker cones for playing area, 3 bibs for taggers

How to play: Three taggers try to tag other players, who must hold their nose and toes if tagged.

When you say ’GO!’, 3 taggers try to tag other players.
Once tagged, a player must hold the toes of their left foot with their right hand.
To become free, they must touch their nose with their free hand and hold for 5 seconds.

Nose and toe tag

Playing for life activity card - Frogs and lily pads

FMS focus activity - Frogs and lily pads

FMS focus: Vertical jump

Equipment: A 10m x 10m square marked out by 4 cones (the pond), hoops to be used as lily pads

How to play: Players continuously jump from lily pad to lily pad using a two‑foot takeoff and landing technique.

Randomly distribute the hoops inside the pond, making sure they are not too far away from each other (i.e. jumping distance).
Players jump from lily pad to lily pad and see how many they can land on in a given amount of time (e.g. 60 seconds).
If there is more than one frog on the lily pad, it will sink. If a player jumps onto a lily pad with another player already on it, the original player must immediately find another lily pad to jump onto.
Players may jump into the pond as well as onto the lily pads.

Modified small-sided games

It's game time!

Teams play each other in the game outlined below.

Stone, bridge and tree relay

Skill focus: Balance, vertical jump and sprint run

Equipment: Music, designated playing area

How to play: A relay race using various static and movements skills.

Teams of 6–8 players line up behind their starting cones.
When you say ’GO!’, the first player runs out to their first cone and forms a stone.
The second player jumps over the ‘stone’, and then runs to the second cone to form a bridge.
The third player jumps over the ‘stone’, crawls under the ‘bridge’, and then runs to the third cone to form a tree.
The fourth player jumps over the ‘stone’, crawls under the ‘bridge’, runs around the ‘tree’ and back to take the place of the ‘stone’. The ‘stone’ takes the place of the ‘bridge’. The‘bridge’ then takes the place of the ‘tree’, who then runs to the end of the line.
The game finishes when all players have had a turn at each of the positions.