Week 2

Movement exploration games - Hop

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Equipment

marker cones
15 hoops
1 bean bag per pair of students

Download the Week 2 Movement exploration games - Hop task card to support teaching before and during the sport session.

FMS focus: Hop

Learning intention

Students are developing proficiency in the hop

Success criteria.

Student has:

Non-support leg bent and swings in rhythm with the support leg.
Head stable, eyes focused forward throughout the jump.

When proficient in above, student has:

Support leg bends on landing, then straightens to push off.
Lands and pushes off on the ball of the foot.
Arms bent and swing forward as support leg pushes off.

Explicit teaching of the hop

Model the skill

Remind students of the key components of the hop. Ask students to show you how they hop.
- Bend your leg to push off.
- Land on the ball of your feet.
- Find your rhythm.
- Look ahead, with head and eyes level.
- Use your arms for balance.

Guided practice

Ask students to try hopping:

straight and then to the side
bent and held high to the sky
bent and in front of them
bent, with the foot behind the support leg and not swinging.

Ask students to try hopping:

with their eyes closed
looking down to the ground and then looking straight ahead
watching a partner who is hopping beside them.

Link back to the components of the hop and ask students which is the easiest or best way to hop.

Skill development games

Choosing teams

In a sport education approach, affiliation is promoted by students being a member of the same team over a period of time. It is intended that students remain in these teams for the duration of each sport program for the skill development and the modified small-sided games, so that they can develop and learn together.

Place students in equal teams, 4 teams is optimal, at the beginning of the skill development session. Strategies for forming groups can be found in the Game-based learning in sport and physical activity e-learning course.
To further promote affiliation students can decide on a team name.

FMS focus activity - Frogs and lily pads

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 one foot take-off and landing technique (hop).

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.

Frogs and lily pads - Playing for Life Activity Card

Playing for life - How high?

FMS consolidation activity - How high?

FMS: Catch

Equipment: 1 bean bag per pair

How to play: Players work in pairs, one player is the ‘clown’ and the other is the lion tamer, positioned at the starting line. Clowns throw their juggling object and try to run to the line behind them before the lion tamer catches it.

Arrange the players into 2 even lines approximately 2 metres apart, facing each other, making sure each player is facing their partner.
One player in the pair is the clown and the other is the lion tamer. The clown holds the juggling implement.
On the call ‘THROW’, the clown throws the juggling object as high as possible and sprints to the line behind them. The lion tamer tries to catch the juggling object before the clown reaches the line.
After 3-5 attempts, partners switch roles.

Modified small-sided games

It's game time!

Teams play each other in the game outlined below.

Hoop races

Equipment: One hula hoop per group.

How to play: Players in teams race each other by passing a hoop up and down their line while making up and down noises.

In groups, players form a line, one behind the other approximately 1 metre apart.
The first player in the line steps into the hoop, takes it over their head and then passes it to the next person at head height.
The next player takes it over their head, lowers the hoop, steps through it and passes it to the next player.
Each group agrees on an ‘up noise’ and a ‘down noise’ and makes these noises as the hoop travels up and down.
This pattern continues until the hoop reaches the end of the line.
The end player runs to the beginning of the line and starts again.
Play until the original leader is back at the front of the line.