Hungary Creek
Creek Ball
Collaborating using variety of materials to create and brand new game
Henrico Learner Profile (HLP) 6C Focus
6-7 Grades - Physical Education
SOL/Standard - The student will demonstrate all critical elements in movement forms in various activities and demonstrate the six components of skill-related fitness.
a) Combine and apply manipulative skills into small-sided games for overhand and underhand throwing and catching, throwing and catching to a target with accuracy and control, and hand and/or foot dribbling with accuracy at varying speeds while applying spatial awareness within partner and small-group modified game-play.
Learning Experience
This PE activity is an engaging assignment that encourages creativity, teamwork, and collaboration among our middle school PE students. We divided the class into working groups of 4 to 6 students. Then we set up a playing area where the students could brainstorm and test their games with a variety of equipment that the students can use to invent their games. The groups’ goals were to collaborate to: invent a unique name for their game, establish rules that make sense and are fun, and have each group present their game to the whole class. Then they explained the game’s concept and rules, demonstrated how to play the game, and engaged the class in playing their newly created game.
What did the student(s) learn about this experience:
"I learned to work together and listen to other's ideas. We would change the rules of the game while we played, realizing that the original rules were too hard. I learned that time management played a key role in keeping everything moving."
- Ari
What did the teacher enjoy about this experience:
"It was great to see all the students coming together to create and game and watching them adapt that game as it went along to different skill levels. " - Rod Wilson
Additional Pictures, Media & Artifacts
7th-grade students created a unqiue team game.
Thank you to the innovators who helped make this experience possible:
Greg Morris, our sign language interpreter helped with our Deaf Hard of Hearing program
Nicky Bouissea, PE Teacher
Danielle Sommers, ILC