To modify a hockey activity to accommodate non-ambulatory students via gait trainers, wheel chairs, powered wheel chairs etc.
The ability to distinguish colors; the ability to make purposeful movement with minimal to moderate assistance.
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-2 hockey sticks per student OR -1 hockey stick and 1 hockey stick blade taped together -Tape or Velcro straps -various colored poly spots, markers or cones -various colored bean bags or yarn balls
The purpose of this activity is for non-ambulatory students to independently match bean bags while implementing a hockey stick.
-Hockey stick should be strapped to w/c or gait trainer so the two blades rest on the floor with creating minimal friction, so students are able to move around the area without restriction.
-Scatter bean bags or yarn balls of various colors in one area of room / gym. ]
-Depending on ability, line up various colored poly spots with several feet in between polyspots to allow a wheelchair or gait trainer to go in between.
-Have students ambulate to a bean bag or yarn ball on floor and with purposeful movement align the bean bag or yarn ball in between the 2 hockey blades.
-Have the student ambulate from the area of bean bags or yarn balls to where you have placed the various colored poly spots.
-Have the student match the bean bag or yarn ball to the same colored poly spot.
-Have the student repeat the process until all bean bags have been matched to the same colored poly spot.
-Change the space in between the bean bags and poly spots depending on skill level
-Add pathways using tape for students to follow.
-Add or subtract the number of colors when matching depending on skill level.
-Use American Sign Language when having students match colors
-Add obstacles for students to navigate around.
-Add numbers to the bean bags and have the students match numbers to numbers etc.
-Ask students to match specific numbers or colors to assess learning.
-Have students ambulate in various pathways without a guide to assess the understanding of various pathways (straight, curved, zig-zag)
Adaptations for Students with Disabilities
This activity has been created specifically for non ambulatory students. This activity can be done in a gymnasium, in a hallway, in a classroom.
Submitted by Jameson Flynn who teaches at Fall River Public School District in Fall River, MA. Thanks for contributing to PE Central! Posted on PEC: 12/14/2018.
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To have students of any age or ability be able to bowl. Bowling while building muscle.
Understanding the basic concept of bowling, will help in the cognitive relation between the sling shot and the bowling pins.
K-12
PT band / exercise band
bowling pins
desk/chair/peers
yarn balls, foam balls etc.
The basic idea of this activity is to have students of any age or ability be able to bowl!
- PT band will be tied horizontally to two legs of a desk or chair, or have two other peers or staff hold each side of the PR band until PT band is tight.
-Place yarn ball in middle of PT band, and enclose the ball into the PT band at best of ability
-Student with one or two hands will pull back PT band creating tension.
-While aiming towards bowling pins, student will release grasp of ball in PT band.
-With correct aim and a little practice students will be able to pull, aim, let go and bowl!
-For students requiring visual aid for best practice, put poly spots in straight line from PT band to cones / targets so students can visually see correct pathway.
-Grasping the PT band can be done in multiple ways, targeting different muscle groups as well as being able to accommodate a wide range of learners.
Modifications:
Depending on students level of strength, PT bands come in various weights so use them with different children if you wish.
-Assessment ideas can be asking students:
-Q: How can you make the ball go farther?
-A: pulling the PT band back farther
-Q: what muscles are we using by pulling back the band ?
-A: muscles in our hands, biceps, triceps, back muscles
Teaching Suggestions:
For students in wheelchairs, staff can stand on either side holding PT band and have student pull back band or have student grasp ball in PT band and have staff walk forward creating tension.
If student is sitting on gymnastics mat, tie band to legs of chair horizontally and student can sit and pull PT band back towards pins or target.
Submitted by Jameson Flynn who teaches at Fall River Public Schools in Fall River, MA. Thanks for contributing to PE Central! Posted on PEC: 12/6/2017.
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This activity is for students with physical disabilities specifically students with motorized w/c, gait trainers, wheel chairs. Most importantly this activity can be adapted to fit any learner of any physical or cognitive ability.
Student should have the cognitive ability to comprehend instructions such as grasping/releasing objects with tactile assistance if needed. Also objects relating to other objects such as the hula hoop must go over the construction cone.
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If there are blue, red and yellow hula hoops then there should be blue yellow and red construction cones or construction cones with same colored poly-spots in front of cones. Depending on cognitive ability first task may be one hula hoop and one construction cone.
In the gymnasium take the thin hula hoops and stick them in between the wall mats that are typically in every school gym. In between each mat there is a small space, perfect for a thin hula hoop. place it in lightly, at optimal level for student success. With enough space in between put different colored hula hoops in between the mats. Same color as construction cones.
Depending on ability create pathways with poly spots for students to follow to construction cones.
Students will travel and grasp hula hoop from wall, will find same colored poly spots and follow the pathway to construction cones.
Students will find same colored construction cone as poly spots and hula hoop and release hula hoop over construction cone
Students will then follow poly spot pathway back to hula hoops and repeat task.
EXTENSIONS : students with severe disabilities, the colors of everything can be taken out and task can be focused on strength to grasp hula hoop from the gym mat, travel while grasping object and release hula hoop over cone. The distance of the hula hoops to cones can vary, if focusing on levels (high,medium, low) students can grasp hula hoop from a lower or higher level, I usually put the hoops at a medium level which is most beneficial for students in gait trainers and wheelchairs.
Students can follow poly spot pathway and have the construction cone a distance where students can throw with two hands the hula hoop over the construction cone.
Depending on cognitive ability. The initial task of grasping a hula hoop from a gymnastics mats at medium space can be modified in many different ways such as adding colors or numbers for the students to match. Adding pathways with poly spots to the cones; choosing the location or proximity to where the cones will be to the hula hoops.
Adaptations for Students with Disabilities
This is specifically designed for students with disabilities, especially non-ambulatory students requiring the use of gait trainers, w/c, powered w/c etc. Also this activity can be done independently or if needed maximum hand over hand assistance.
Submitted by Jameson Flynn who teaches at Fall River Public Schools in Fall River, MA. Thanks for contributing to PE Central! Posted on PEC: 4/17/2017.
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