Cooperative Hoops
Grade Level: K-9
Skills Developed: Cooperation, teamwork, spatial awareness, and locomotor skills (running, walking, skipping, etc.)
Equipment Needed: Hula hoops (one for each player)
How to Play:
Suggestions:
Skills Developed: Cooperation, teamwork, spatial awareness, and locomotor skills (running, walking, skipping, etc.)
Equipment Needed: Hula hoops (one for each player)
How to Play:
- Each player will get a hoop, find a space in the gym, put the hoop on the floor, and stand inside of the hoop.
- Hoops should be spaced safely throughout the playing area.
- On the signal (whistle) players begin moving around the playing area, avoiding the hoops. Specify how players are to move around the area (e.g. run, jog, walk, skip, etc.)
- When the whistle is blown again, students must quickly get back into a hoop (only one player per hoop).
- Now you are going to make the game harder by removing 2-3 of the hoops. Before getting players to move around the area, ask students what they are going to do in order to make the game work. How can we include all players if there isn't a hoop for everyone?
- Blow the whistle and get players to move around the area again. When the whistle is blown again, players must quickly find a hoop and get inside of it. In order for all players to be included, there will have to be hoops with more than one player inside.
- Continue removing hoops until you have 5-6 players having to share one hoop.
Suggestions:
- This game is meant to be an inclusion activity. Encourage students to invite "stragglers" (players who are wondering around or hesitant to get into a hoop) into their hoop.
- Discuss the concepts inclusion and belonging with your class. Talk about why it is important to help others and discuss how you can make people feel like they belong.