Create A Sports Game

Introduction

Students your help is needed to create a new game for your school's physical education class. The Principal and Physical Education Teacher need new ideas of different games that could be used in our Physical Education classes. The new game will be used in the your physical education classroom with you and your classmates. Good luck on creation of a new and exciting game for everyone to enjoy.

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The Task

Have fun, be creative and be willing to take a chance.

Create a new game using one or more skills from the following list:

Loco motor movement skills
crawl, walk, jog, run, skip, hop, gallop, slide, and skip.

Nonlocomotor movement skills
push, pull, bend and twist.

Eye-hand coordination skills
Using the eyes and hands to work together such as catch, throw (overhand, underhand, rolling, or bouncing), and tag.

Eye-foot coordination skills
Using the eyes and feet to work together such as kick, punt, dribble, hop, leap, and jump.

Spatial awareness
Know where the body is in space in relation to friends during a game or activity, or during individual skills such as egg roll, pencil roll, log roll, forward roll, backward roll, cartwheel, roundoff, or back bent.

Rhythm
Moving to music or a beat.

Resources
Use the resources listed in the 'Sports Quest Links' panel to help you to gain ideas for the different skills.

These ideas will help you, but the game you present must be your own invention!

The Process

To accomplish the task, the students must go through the following steps.

The new game must include the following:
1. Research from one or more of the following sources: books, magazines, internet, and an interview a person / people from the health/fitness field.
2. Create the rules of how to play the game.
3. The type of field or playing area the game will be played on.
4. What skills are needed to play the game? (refer to the task)
5. How long is the game? (examples: innings, quarters, periods, or play to a certain score.)
6. Safety factors for the game and players.
7. Write a set of instructions explaining how the game is played. The rules, number of players, skills involved in the game, how the game is scored, safety factors for the game, and the activity skills being taught should be included.

How'd it go?
There is a rubric for you to assess your own game!