Elementary PE Brainbooster

PE/Playworks Brain Booster Optional Units: 3rd-5th

Theme

Frisbee

Games and Activities

Frisbee Mania and Frisbee Golf

I can… 3rd: Discuss the positive social interactions during participation in physical activities. 4th: Discuss the positive social interactions during participation in physical activities with others. 5th: Describe the social benefits of participating in activities with others. Home Base Frisbees (1 per group and/or 1 per student) 4 Cones 1 Bowling Pin Hula Hoops or containers (for golf “holes”) Vocabulary Social Interaction: Words or actions between people. This group has such a positive social interaction together. Materials/ Space Needed

Social Benefits: Actions from others that improve someone's life. When playing games with each other, we receive lots of social benefits.

Introduction

Begin class with a warm up procedure: ● You’ll be teaching outside for this activity (unless you have poles in your gym). Adjust your warm up routine and Home Base accordingly. ● Back at Home Base, review rules/expectations of the school and

PE/Playworks with explicit examples when appropriate. ● Review any other specific reminders needed for the day.

Before releasing students for the first game, use a Sequence Touch to get them to the location you need them to be for the first activity.

Frisbee Mania

Show How How to Play:

● Split students up into four teams, each starting in a corner of the gym behind a tall cone. Each student will be given a number based on their order (number 1, 2, 3, etc.) ● In the center of the square is a bowling pin standing inside a hula hoop, which students are trying to knock down with their frisbees. ● You will call out a number ( Number 4! ) and the student with that number on each team in line will throw their frisbee, trying to knock

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