Facility: Classroom, Gymnasium, Multipurpose, Outdoors

Materials:

• Audio Equipment and upbeat music
• Ball (or other object that is safe to pass around)
• List of warm up activities
• Stopwatch or clock with a second hand

Activity Description:

Take it up a notch and engage students in a combination of physical activities and running that increase and decrease in intensity as you progress through the activities.

Overview:

• Select, or have students select, 5 fitness activities (e.g., alternate knee lifts, jumping jacks, tuck jumps, gluteal kicks, can-can, high leg kicks, running on the spot, stride jumps, etc.)
• Students begin by jogging on the spot for 10 seconds to warm up.
  
• Call out the first fitness task and have students do 10 repetitions before the resume running on the spot, this time for 20 seconds until the next task is called.
• Call out the second fitness task. Students perform 10 repetitions of the new task, and then running on the spot for 30 seconds.
• The activity continues until all 5 fitness activities are completed and the students are up to 50 seconds of running.
• After all five activities have been performed once, continue the pattern but  decrease the amount of running by 10 seconds after each activity.
  

Source: Ophea’s DPA Activity Card 2007/2008, September, Junior

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