Cooperatively Catching Critters: An Alliteration of Physical Education Ideas and Activities by Jeff Jacobs Methacton School District 2013 NASPE District Teacher of the Year Lancaster-Lebanon Physical Education and Wellness Conference June 15, 2015

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Objectives My plan is to share a variety of Health and Physical Education information, ideas and activities that I have found or created over the years with the hope that you may use or modify some of them to create positive learning experiences for your students.

Specifically Today I would like to teach a progression of parachute- based activities that require cooperation, communication, reinforce physical skills and concepts along with key vocabulary words. All of this will be interspersed with a few musical movement activities.

Verbal Blend

Switcheroo Objective: To move from 1 parachute to another when your color is called. Concepts: ~ clockwise ~ counterclockwise Objective: To move from 1 parachute to another when your color is called. Concepts: ~ clockwise ~ counterclockwise

Critter in the Web Objective: How many times can your group toss and catch a critter using your parachute. You are the spider, the chute is your web and the critter is lunch! Objective: How many times can your group toss and catch a critter using your parachute. You are the spider, the chute is your web and the critter is lunch! mmm lunch!

Critter Grab Objective: Work with your group to toss the critter in the air and take turns catching it with your hands. Objective: Work with your group to toss the critter in the air and take turns catching it with your hands.

Critter Soup Objective: How many critters can your group accumulate by working together to toss the critter in the air and take turns catching it with your hands. Objective: How many critters can your group accumulate by working together to toss the critter in the air and take turns catching it with your hands.

Stealing Critters for Soup Objective: To see which group can accumulate the most critters by: o “stealing” critters from other groups o working together to toss the critters in the air o taking turns catching them with your hands. Objective: To see which group can accumulate the most critters by: o “stealing” critters from other groups o working together to toss the critters in the air o taking turns catching them with your hands.

Soup Line Objective: How many critters can the entire group accumulate by using parachutes to toss and catch the critters from chute-to-chute? Objective: How many critters can the entire group accumulate by using parachutes to toss and catch the critters from chute-to-chute?

Chicken Coops Objective: Using 6 hoops, each group cooperatively constructs a chicken coop. Upon completion, each group member must crawl through the coop without knocking it down. If it collapses, the group starts again. Extension: How many ways can you move through the coop? Objective: Using 6 hoops, each group cooperatively constructs a chicken coop. Upon completion, each group member must crawl through the coop without knocking it down. If it collapses, the group starts again. Extension: How many ways can you move through the coop?

 volleyball net represents the sling shot  bowling pins or cones represent the pigs  chicken coops made from hula hoops represent the shelter around the pigs  yarn balls represent the objects launched by the sling shot  volleyball net represents the sling shot  bowling pins or cones represent the pigs  chicken coops made from hula hoops represent the shelter around the pigs  yarn balls represent the objects launched by the sling shot

o swimmers o lifeguards o sharks

Brain Breaks

The Silly Pirate Song Once there was a pirate, Who sang the Pirate Song…. Aarrrrr!

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