ACTIVITY hurdling practice Ready • 4 cones for boundaries • 3 28" cones • 15 18" cones • 12 12" cones • 30 hurdle bars Set • Create large (30X30 paces) activity area. • Arrange hurdles to create 10 lanes of 3 hurdles each, spread 3-5 paces from 1 hurdle to the next. • Arrange the lanes with different size cones (e.g., 1 row with 12" cones, another with 18", a 3rd with 28", etc.) so all children can be successful and challenged. • Allow children to choose the lane they would like to try. Keep groups to fewer than 4 per lane. GO! 1. Introduction to Hurdling • Track and field is a popular sport worldwide. • People race short distances called sprints and they run long distances where they have to pace themselves. Pacing means to run at a consistent speed.

• Hurdling is a race where runners leap over the obstacles in their way. jumping • To practice Hurdling today, we’ll be working in groups. • Show you are a good group-mate by sharing, taking turns, and saying something nice to someone in your group. 2. Hurdling Cues • (Provide demonstration.) As you move through the lane, keep your head up and look at the next hurdle. • Do a running leap over the bar, then sprint to the next hurdle. • The 1st person to finish in each lane stays to straighten hurdles and replace any bars that might fall over. • Jog back to the start after everyone in your group has run through. • If you clear all the hurdles, move to a lane with higher hurdles for the next round.

GRADES K-2 3. Wrap It Up • What is it called when you take off on 1 foot and land on the other? (Leap.) When you take off on 1 foot and land on the same foot? (Hop.) When you take off on 2 feet and land on 2 feet? (Jump.) • Give me a thumbs up if you feel you were a good group-mate today. Who said something nice to someone during class? 7 More Hurdling Cues Now that you’ve had some practice hurdling, while you’re resting, I’ll give you another cue to help you Social Studies improve. (Give 1 cue at a time, not providing the Have you ever heard of the 2nd until students have shown they are incorporating Olympic Games? They began the first.) hundreds of years ago in ancient 1. Try not to leap any higher over the bar than you Greece. There are 2 kinds of have to. You want to clear the hurdle and get Olympic Games today: the back to running again as quickly as possible. Summer Games and the Winter 2. Which leg do you prefer to leap from? Does 1 Games. The Summer Games feel better than the other? Try and time your steps include many track and field between hurdles so you leap from your favorite events that involve jumping. foot each time. Raise your hand if you’ve heard 3. When you throw that lead leg across the bar, see of any of these: Long jump? if you can get it almost straight, then swing your High jump? Pole vault? Triple back leg over really fast. jump? Steeple chase? And now you practiced 1 of the most 4. The object of a hurdle race is to make it to the popular events – hurdle races! other side as quickly as possible. It’s a sprint. The hurdles are in your way to slow you down. Don’t let them!

STANDARDS ADDRESSED TONY’S TIPS NASPE • Ropes strung between cones may #1, 2 Spatial and body be used as hurdles. awareness, leaping, landing • Give a few simple directions so #3, 4 Participates in enjoyable, students are active quickly; then challenging activities, add cues and additional instructions cardiovascular endurance throughout the activity. • Start the next set of runners once #5, 6 Participates, appreciates, the last set has leaped over 2 enjoys movement, cooperates hurdles. with a group • Students love leaping hurdles! Use Your State (Write in here) this activity more than once. Vocabulary Sprint, pace, hurdles, Olympics NOTES

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