Lesson 6 - Jumping Space Stations | Fundamental Movement Coach

Alien Bridges & Barriers

You will need: bibs

Select 3-5 students as alien taggers who wear bibs.
The rest of the class, the 'astronauts', travel around the PE space, trying to avoid being tagged.
If tagged, students must adopt the ‘front support’ position (bridge). To be set free, another student must crawl underneath them.
Players can also adopt the ‘rear support’ position (barriers), and to be set free another student must jump over them.
Play each round for 1-3 mins.
After each round change the way 'astronauts' travel i.e., skipping, galloping etc.

You will need: hula hoops, cones, gymnastic mats, spot markers & Jumping Space Station cards (printable)

Directly teach Rocket Jumps (pencil jumps) - arms straight up by ears, legs and feet squeezed together, head and chest up so that back is straight.
Set up 5 'space stations', divide students into astronaut teams with teams rotating around the stations:
Station 1: Children to practice 'Rocket' Jumps.
Station 2: Place a hoop on the floor, children to do a 'rocket' jump to land back inside the hoop.
Station 3: Space Bunny Hops. Children imagine they are space bunnies. Children to crouch down and practice bunny hopping along the mats.
Station 4: Place a hoop on the floor, children to practice jumping onto the 'planet' and then back off the 'planet'.
Station 5: Low Bench, children to 'rocket' jump from the bench to the floor.

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You will need: no equipment

Ask students to find their own space in the PE area.
Students pretend to be Humpty Dumpty climbing up the wall after falling down.
Students climb back up a really tall ladder to reach the top of the wall where they sit down(squat), stretch out their arms before falling off the wall again. Do this for 30 seconds.
Rest, then repeat climbing back up the wall until cool.