miércoles, 27 de abril de 2022

JUMP ROPE UNIT

Shared by Sara Fernández:

This organization is proposed to be carried out throughout the teaching unit. At the end of the unit, students must be able to perform different jump rope skills and tricks, individually and in pairs, in short rope, long rope and double dutch (two ropes).

Firstly, the teacher must present the students the cards they will work with throughout the unit. They contain the explanation of the exercise to be carried out, with the steps to follow and some tips they have to pay attention to. In addition, it specifies the tricks that they must previously control to achieve the one they are in.

In this case, I have 25 students, so I begin making groups of 5 people. Each group is going to work out in one trick, so at the end of this phase, there will be 5 students capable to do one trick and 5 five different tricks.

The teacher hands out one card to each group, so the have a few minutes to analyse it and practice the skill. After 6 or 7 minutes each group is ready to teach the others that skill.

Now we have to reorganise the groups again. One person from each group will be a member of a new one. Therefore, in each group there are the five tricks that they must teach to each other. They can always use the card to help themselves, not to show it to their classmates and leave them free to practise. They can also request some help from a person of the previous group.

The same dynamic can be repeated with the skills and tricks they can make in pairs or small groups.

Self assessment:

I carried out this activity with students of 4º ESO. It is great to see them teaching their classmates and even trying to do tricks together without asking them for it.

A good planification is essential. Number of lessons, number of tricks you want the students to learn, how many tricks can they learn each lesson. I, as a teacher, cannot give them 4 or 5 tricks to do during the class and forget until the bell rings. The teacher needs to check continuously their achievements, because this activity is like an engine, if a piece fails (group) the rest of the class cannot continue.

The most important consideration I think, it to have the groups organization very clear, so you can organize easier the class and the students understand better. The next time I carry out the activity, I guess I have to name the groups not with numbers, because the tricks also have numbers, so I is confusing for them.

For future attempts, I think I would use a big stopwatch, to improve the organization of each step. Making the working time visible for everyone I think will help the groups to be more productive and effective. That is one of the things that did not go as I expected. Some groups got distracted easily, so they were not ready to move to the next step when others did.

miércoles, 20 de abril de 2022

Paralympic videos for the P.E. classroom

Shared by David Morán:

I use the videos of the youtube channel "Paralympic games", in which you can find videos explaining differents paralympics sports with subtitles in english, helping students to undertand the speaker.

In the same way, olympic channel is used with the same purpose, overall the list "Anatomy of an olympian".

These videos show how well prepared olympians are and how they have to work. However, it is only the surface of their world and it is a little made up, but usually shock the students, though.

Paralympic games channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/paralympics

Paralympic sports from letter A to letter Z (It´s metaphorical):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bZ51jzmbAQ&list=PL6CBAXPeBajl7Ev8ooo3vG0E5mZIug-8q&ab_channel=ParalympicGames

Olympics channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Olympics

Anatomy of an olympian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF_werRlNW8&list=PL-292yfpAFGZYGk_5NE5Dtg1w4e2AQ8eN&ab_channel=Olympics

TRADITIONAL BRITISH GAMES

Shared by Silvia García:

The cross curricular project for 3ºESO that I have created involves Physical Education, Music, Arts and Crafts, Technology and English.

Physical Education

In PE we are going to do a Traditional British games didactic unit. To do it our students will work in groups so they will be in charge of learning specially about one of the games so they will be able to explain it later to their classmates and also, they will work on the creation of the materials together.

We will play different games such as Ringing the bull, Jumping the rope (skipping rope) singing songs (Robin Hood, Teddy Bear, Jump With Me or Bumper Car), Skittles or Toad in the hole. Here is a great website to know more about Skittles. https://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Skittles.htm

Technology and Arts and Crafts

In order to play different games, we need to create the specific materials that we are going to need in Technology, and they will decorate them in Arts and Crafts. They can learn how people from other countries do their own materials to play these games, they can also learn how they decorate them and the techniques they use to do it.

Music

They will also learn songs in Music so they will be able to sing them while doing different activities such as jumping the rope. They will learn where from are these songs, and how important they are for people’s culture.

English

They can learn about the British culture and the places where they play these games, also about the time of the year that they play them, etc. They can also learn about similarities with Spanish traditional games and specific vocabulary that they will need to play.

They will play the games when everything will be finish. They will enjoy their own creations and also the high school will earn more materials for the PE area because we can ask our students to give us their creations after the unit so more students can enjoy and learn about British games.

Ukranian Fun and Games

Ukrainian Fun and Games

There are quite a few Ukrainian games that both adults and children will definitely enjoy playing.

Here is one of the national games played at Ivana Kupala night on the 7th of July. All people sing Ukrainian songs and dance. Girls pick up flowers and let them float on the river. If the flowers go down the river, the girls will get married. And if the flowers go back to the girl, she won’t marry soon. The second part of Kupala game is jumping over the fire. It is dangerous, but people like this game. This old tradition is still popular in Ukrainian villages.

The next game has two names: “Blind Cat”, “Eyes”. Number of players: 5, but 10 players can play too. A cat must be chosen. A mouse covers his eyes with a black handkerchief, and then the cat has to find a mouse and guess the person. A cat becomes an angry mouse and a mouse becomes a blind cat.

The next game is called “Dragon”. All children taking part in a game make a chain and put their hands on friend’s shoulders. First person has name “a head of the dragon” and last one – “a tail of the dragon”. The chain of kids starts running. “The head” tries to catch “the tail”. Using hands is not allowed. If “the tail” has caught “the head”, they switch the spots. “The head” becomes “the tail”. It is an ancient game. You can play this game with your friends and parents. You can sing your favorite songs when playing this game.

“Jungle- Jingle” is a song-game, loved by many Ukrainians. The children sing, when they are moving in the circle and holding their hands. “Jungle” is running in the circle and when the song is over, “Jungle” stands in the circle, then “Jungle – Jingle” will be a new person.

The game “Old Woman Kutsia” – anybody ties the eyes of another person and turns him around. The other children begin to clap hands together. The person with the blindfold on his eyes must catch the first nearest person, at this time all children around call his name. The first caught man is called “Old woman Kutsia”.

Ukrainians also do crafts and sing for fun. They are known for their Easter eggs-pysanky. Kids love to paint eggs both at home and at school.

Source: https://blog.dinolingo.com/ukrainian-language-culture/ukrainian-fun-and-games-ukrainian-culture-for-kids/

P.E. Reading list

Reading in English can be a very interesting interdisciplinary activity in the bilingual school. These books can be used in the English and P.E. classroom widening the scope of the students' learning.

This is a sample provided by Ms Warren a librarian at the South Nottinghamshiere Academy (a regional association of schools). The poster includes title, author and topics.

Source: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pe-curriculum-linked-fiction-reading-list-for-year-7-8-12296238

jueves, 2 de abril de 2020

Scaffolding is a great way to engage students in a lesson from the very beginning. Scaffolding helps building skills and competences by helping learners to understand the contents and the language using different estrategies that support them to build skills and competences which will be transferred to other

In order to make scaffolding effectively, we should always have in mind the objective of our lesson, the students’ needs and the task sequencing, and focus our scaffolding where the help is needed to achieve intended learning outcomes.

Remember that Scaffolding means helping learners to build and develop skills and competences, and it helps teachers to attend diversity and foster creativity and autonomy within the classroom.

“I’ve seen teachers burn out because of the effort they put into planning, so it’s important to start slowly, to take small steps, bite-size pieces and ideally work in a team –with language and content teachers.”

David Marsh: Extract from a Foreword in:

101 Scaffolding Techniques for language and teaching and learning,

by Donna Lee Fields. Octaedro Editorial. Barcelona 2019.