Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.5A Grade 12 CPI 2

 

Standard: 2.5 - Motor Skills

 

Strand: A -   Movement Skills 

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 -  The student will use information from internal and external sources to detect, analyze, and correct errors in movement skills and patterns used in applied settings.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE! - Write Practice Makes Perfect on the board. Brainstorm various interpretations of the saying and have students relate it to their experiences in sports, dance, music, or other activities that require practice. After the discussion, write Perfect Practice Makes Perfect. Ask: “How does this statement differ from the first one? How does it relate to positive thinking, mental conditioning and techniques such as visualization?” Students write an essay explaining the differences between the two statements.

Variation: Students select an activity that requires practice. For two weeks, students keep a journal about the activity. Students reflect on their practice sessions and performances, focus on the positive aspects and successes, and examine physical or mental mistakes made when practicing and per-forming. Students decide how to correct mistakes and write about it in the journal. At the end of the two week period, students share some of their personal observations.

 

·       AT THE STATION - For this activity, create a number of skill stations. At each station, require students to work through a progression of skills, from basic to more advanced. Students jog to the station, follow the directions for the skill, and attempt to perform the task correctly at each progressive level. At each station, provide students with criteria to evaluate their skill performance. After a prescribed time period, students record on a card the level they were able to achieve and then move to the next station. Examples of stations might include a catch/throw station that requires accurate target throws and rebounding or a juggling station that moves a student through one-object to multiple-object juggling patterns.

Variation: Divide the class into pairs. While one member of the team performs the task, the other observes and records information. The pairs perform a second time, using the observations to improve performance.