Week 1 (first 3 PE classes): Emphasis on throwing, catching, and dribbling using modified games, individual challenges, partner challenges, group challenges, and a variety of equipment choice. Day 1: Building the learning environment with a variety of OCS equipment (e.g., basketballs, soccer balls, batting tees with bat, tennis racquets, table tennis racquets, juggling balls, and plate spinning). Day 2: Continued exploration of OCS using gator balls, soccer balls, batting tee, tennis racquets, badminton racquets, or table tennis racquets to knock over previously built targets. Day 3: Long term group team building utilizing OCS equipment to complete group challenges including passes between each group member with a variety of balls. |
Week 2 (next 4 PE classes): Continuing throwing and catching emphasis using circus arts equipment and juggling skills (e.g., plate juggling, diabolo juggling, devil stick juggling, ball juggling, club juggling, and bean bag juggling). Day 4: Focus on underhand throwing and catching with a variety of balls by moving in a circle and passing a variety of balls around the circle. Day 5: Focus on review of underhand throwing and adding overhand throwing and catching. Day 6: Focus on throwing and catching utilizing circus arts equipment. Day 7: Continued focus on throwing and catching utilizing circus arts equipment. |
Week 3 (7 PE classes): Emphasis on striking using tennis, badminton and baseball modified games, individual challenges, partner challenges, group challenges, and a variety of equipment choices. Day 8: Exploration, individual practice, and individual challenges with a variety of striking equipment (e.g., tennis racquets, table tennis racquets, badminton racquets, and baseball bats). Day 9: Exploration with badminton racquets striking individually and with a partner. Day 10: Exploration with tennis racquets individually and with a partner. Day 11: Tennis racquet challenges with partners and long term groups using the tennis nets. Day 12: Exploration with table tennis racquets individually and with a partner. Day 13: Table tennis racquet with table tennis table. Day 14: Baseball batting—batting game towards the wall. |
Week 4 (4 PE classes): Kicking and footwork emphasis using modified games, individual challenges, partner challenges, group challenges, and a variety of equipment choice (e.g., hacky sacs and modified soccer balls). Day 15: Feet only day exploration, individual practice, and individual challenge-day with hacky sacs (gripper soccer balls and/or gator balls as other options for student choice). Day 16: Soccer ball and hacky sac review by kicking game towards the wall and dribbling and kicking at targets. Day 17: Basketball dribbling and tennis ball dribbling practice and challenges. Day 18: Combining hand dribbling and foot dribbling. |
Week 5 (4 PE classes): Station challenges utilizing all object manipulation skills (i.e., throwing, catching, dribbling, striking, and kicking). Day 19: Introduction to spike ball to utilize OCS and throwing and catching skills. Day 20: Spike ball continued (2 vs. 2 practice). Day 21: Stations: tennis, badminton, table tennis, circus arts (with hacky sac and soccer balls), spike ball, and baseball. Day 22: Stations: tennis, badminton, table tennis, circus arts (with hacky sac and soccer balls), spike ball, baseball—continued from Day #21. |
Week 6 (5 PE classes): Obstacle course challenges utilizing all object manipulation skills. Day 23: Teacher-created obstacle course utilizing throwing and striking at targets. Day 24 and 25: Student created obstacle courses. Day 26 and 27: Game day celebration utilizing all OCS. |