Lesson Instructions

This lesson/unit can be a single lesson, multi-lesson, full unit, and/or a “Challenge” competition. Teacher choice! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij-3VO5AiUQ

Materials: 5 balls/objects in variety of shapes and sizes. I use beanbag, 8 inch foam (covered) ball, stuffed ball (like stuffed animal), beach balll, knobby ball, and/or e-z grab ball. Sometimes (for fun!) I also used rubber chickens, rubber fish, silly bean bags, hula hoops, shoes, …. anything you can toss safely to another person! Have fun!

This activity is easily used for integrating other academic information/practice.
Examples, include (but are not limited to):
vocabulary (any content area)
geography
math (number sense, operations)
art (colors, concepts)
music (rhythm, patterns, lyrics)
rhyming
storytelling
….. you get the point…. you can use it for a bazillion things!

Day 1: Whole class, teach game, reinforce underhand toss, teach pattern-setting
Day 2: Break into 2 to 3 smaller groups (9 to 14 students), practice pattern-setting; tossing/catching; work up to 3-4 balls; introduce “talking ball”
Day 3-4: break into smaller groups (new smaller groups each PE class allows variety of students to work together.); practice pattern-setting, tossing/catching; work up to 5 balls;
IF going to move into “Challenge” >>
Day 5: Create teams for Challenge; name teams; practice
Day 6: team practice
Day 7-8: Challenge turns (3-5 turns per team depending on your time availability)

See google doc lesson, downloaded lesson plans, sample youtube video.

Additional Resources for Teacher Training

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij-3VO5AiUQ
– this is an informational, demonstration video I found on youtube. This is NOT my class or me teaching.

Materials

• 5 balls/objects of assorted shape and size (better if they are not really bouncy)
• stop watch
• Team Juggling Rubric
• Team Juggling Word Wall words
• Challenge score poster (if doing Challenge)

URL for External Curriculum

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0fA01AqlMfiS0k0a3U2TUN2UlU/view?usp=sharing

Lesson Duration

30

Placement

I usually do this lesson/challenge activity in the late fall. This gives students time to become familiar with each other enough to be able to work in groups; but not so well that they are constantly distracted by one another. Also, late fall gives me time to review/re-teach the underhand tossing and catching skills of the students. This unit helps establish a stronger community for the specific class/small group teams; which in turn, leads to more success in multiple areas.

Tags

• catching
• challenge
• cooperative
• experiential
• geography
• math operations
• names
• small group
• talking stick
• teamwork
• underhand tossing
• vocabulary
• whole class

Categories

• Art
• Geography
• Health
• Language Arts
• Math
• Physical Education
• Poetry
• Science
• Social Studies

Standards

• National P.E. Standards

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Other/Alternative Standard(s)

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