Movement exploration - Week 1

Stage 1 - Phase Two

Equipment

Long ropes
Hoops
Marker cones

Download the Movement exploration games - Week 1 activity card to support teaching before and during the sport session.

FMS focus: Leap

Learning intention

Students are developing proficiency in the leap.

Success criteria.

Students display:

Eyes focused forward throughout the leap.
Knee of take-off leg bends.
Legs straighten during flight.
Arms held in opposition to the legs.
Trunk leans slightly forward.
Lands on ball of the foot and bends knee to absorb landing.

Explicit teaching of the leap

About the skill

The leap is a locomotor movement characterised by a take-off on one foot, a long flight phase and a landing on the opposite foot. Although it is an extension of the sprint run, it differs in that it is a discrete skill with a clear beginning and end point. It is basic to everyday activities, such as jumping over low obstacles, playground games such as hopscotch, and various team activities. The leap is also used in gymnastics and dance and is specific to events such as hurdling and the triple jump in athletics.

View 'The Get Skilled Get Active - Leap video' to support the explicit teaching of the leap.

Model the skill:

Model the leap to students while explaining the movements needed to effectively leap:

- Look straight ahead.
- Bend knee to take off.
- Scissor legs.
- Stretch your arms out.
- Lean into the leap.
- Land softly.

Guided practice with immediate teacher feedback:

Place two long ropes along the ground at an angle to each other one metre apart at the narrow end and three metres apart at the wide end.
Students begin at the narrow end of the two ropes and perform a crocodile leap.
They attempt to leap across the river to avoid the ‘crocodiles’, progressively moving towards the wider parts of the river.
Students leap over the creek using the following techniques:
- leap and land on left leg;
- leap and land on right leg;
- leap with hands by your side;
- leap using your arms.
Ask questions such as:
- What parts of the body help you to leap? What role do your arms play? How does your arm position change your leap? (arms should be stretched out, opposite arm to leg).
- What are the hard parts about this skill? What are the easy parts of this skill? When would you use the leap?

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 - Snakes and turtles

Skill Ffocus: Leap

Equipment: A 10m x 10m square marked with cones, hoops, ropes

How to play: Students move around the area practising their jumping and leaping skills.

Mark out a grass area scattered with hoops (turtles) and ropes (snakes).
On a start signal students move around the area, jumping over the snakes and leaping over the turtles.
On a stop signal they return to their home base.
On the start signal, students move around the area, now hopping over the snakes and jumping over the turtles.

Frozen Tag - Playing for Life Activity Card

FMS consolidation activity - Frozen tag

Skill Focus: Static Balance

Equipment: A 25m x 25m square marked out by cones

How to play: One or two taggers try to tag other players, who must hold a static balance for five seconds.

When you say ‘GO!’, one or two taggers try to tag other players.
Once tagged, a player must hold the particular static pose that you call out.
To become free, they must hold this position for 5 seconds.
Static holds could include front support, rear support, stork stand, crab support, straddle stand.

Modified small-sided games

It's game time!

Teams play each other in the game outlined below.

Stone, bridge and tree

Skill focus: Sprint run, static balance, leap

Equipment: An indoor/outdoor playing area 20 metres in length, a starting cone for each team and three cones spaced 5 metres apart.

How to play: A relay race using various static and movements skills. Play in teams of 6–8.

Teams line up behind their starting cones.
When you say ’GO!’, the first player leaps out to their first cone and forms a stone.
The second player leaps over the ‘stone’, and then leaps to the second cone to form a bridge.
The third player leaps over the ‘stone’, crawls under the ‘bridge’, and then leaps to the third cone to form a tree.
The fourth player leaps over the ‘stone’, crawls under the ‘bridge’, leaps 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 leaps to the end of the line.