Busy City
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Name of Activity: Busy City
Purpose of Activity: To reinforce locomotor skills and space awareness.
Prerequisites: Students will have been taught the following locomotor skills: walk, run, hop, jump, gallop, slide, and skip. Students will have been taught personal space and moving in general space safely.
Suggested Grade Level: K-2
Materials Needed: hula hoop, wheel chair, four cones, four pieces of green construction paper, 24 mini cones
Description of Idea * Use the mini cones to establish boundaries for a reduced amount of general space.
* Wrap and tape the construction paper around the large cones (trees) and place the trees inside the general space area.
* Divide the class in half and give one half pinnies. Ask students with the pinnies to go inside the general space area. (They are obstacles for students to maneuver around.)
* Assign the following roles to students who are the obstacles: one dog, one cat, one car (use hula hoop as steering wheel), one person in a wheel chair, all the rest are tall buildings in the city. (The tall buildings can be as tall and/or wide as they want to be.)
* Students without pinnies will be asked to walk through the general space, being careful not to bump into others, the dog, cat, car, person, and/or buildings.
* Switch students and their roles.
Variations: Change locomotor skills from walk to run, hop, jump, gallop, slide, and skip. Vary the distance between buildings. Vary weather from sunny, to rainy, to cold, to hot.
Assessment Ideas: Observe locomotor skills. Ask: "What kinds of places might be busy that you would need to know how to maneuver through?" And/Or: "How can you practice safety while moving through busy places?"
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