Jump Rope Lesson Plan (Angela & Noelle)
Instructor: Noelle Carstens & Angela Bragato
Grade Level: 1st
School Name: Central Elementary
Date: February 4, 2010
Lesson 18 ‘Rope Activities’
Equipment: whistle, jump ropes, 2 stop watches
Objectives: The students will learn how to properly jump rope
Preparation: Have two piles of jump ropes laid out on the stage and 3 long ropes set aside.
Warm up (5 minutes) Red Light/Green Light (Noelle)
Have students stand on base line on basketball court baseline
- First teach the following:
- RED LIGHT = freeze
- YELLOW LIGHT = hop forward on two feet
- GREEN LIGHT =run forward
- When the leader says a color, students respond with the appropriate movement. If the leader sees someone move on a red light, they get sent back to the starting base line. Game is over when students reach the leader at other end of gym.
- Repeat several times.
- (Teacher should be leader first couple times, and then let the student who won lead.)
Teaching Cues: Watch where you’re going!
Transition: Have everyone quietly line in up in two lines in front of the teachers to be given a rope.
Skill Development Activities: (20 min.)
Directions:
- Have students line up in two lines to be given a rope (Noelle and Angela hand short jump ropes out).
- Every student is given a group number (6 students in one group) as they are handed a rope.
- Students are instructed to hold the rope in one hand and spread out (arms length+) around the gym then sit down, not using the ropes, until instructed. (Group 1 students are told to sit on the stage.)
LONG ROPE JUMPERS (Angela) 20 min
- 4 groups of 6 students will be at this station (stage side of gym) for 4 min. each
- When Group 1 is done, they get their short ropes and go over to Noelle’s short rope station and tell Group 2 to come over.
Long Rope Activities (4 min + 1 min. transition x 4 groups)
Activity 1: Swinging
- Turners swing rope slightly from side to side
- Jumpers stand next to the rope and jump as it swings
- Have the children practice swinging, rotating every 30 sec. so turners get a chance to practice.
Teaching Cue: Swing together / Jump when the rope hits the ground
Activity 2: Swing and Turn
- Turners swing the rope over the head of the jumper
- Jumper jumps over the rope
- Have the children practice swing and turn, rotating jumpers and turners every 30 sec.
If time, let students go one more time, they can run in
Teaching Cue: Swing and turn the rope together / Watch the rope, and time your jump when the rope hits the ground
Activity 3: If time…
- If time, let students rotate through one more time
- They can run in/out of the turning rope
- Chant a song:
Chickety, Chickety
“Chickety, chickety, chickety, chop.
How many times before I stop?
1,2,3,4, (up to 20 or until a miss)”
SINGLE SHORT ROPE JUMPERS (Noelle) 20 min.
(The rest of class is working on short ropes until it is their turn to do long ropes)
Intro: Learning about the Jump Rope:
(Repeat when 1st long rope group comes back, while rest of students are jumping)
- Standing on rope, knees and hips straight, shoulders square
- Handles should reach arm pits, if not it’s too short, if past its too long
- If too long, can wrap around hands, or tie knots
- Grip: be relaxed holding rope. With palms open and facing upward place one end of the rope across each palm so that the top of the handle is by the little finger.
- Close fingers around handle, one handle is in each hand
Jump Rope Activities:
Warm up: (3 min)
- Arrange children in scatter formation, each with a jump rope.
- Make a circle, square, heart, diamond, triangle
- Walk, jump, hop, skip around your triangle
- Make a letter with your rope
- Jump, leap, hop over you letter
- Put your rope in a straight line
- Now with your side to the rope, jump from side to side over the rope
- Jump front to back
Teaching Cue: Listen to directions!
Jump the Line: (2 min)
- Keep students in scatter formation. With each child having a short rope laid out in a straight line on the floor.
- Have the student’s practice jumping and hopping back and forth over the rope to a drumbeat (or clap).
- Begin at a slow tempo, and gradually get faster.
Teaching Cue: Jump with the beat!
Jumping Rope: (10 min)
- Demonstrate different types of jumps, and then have students attempt type of jump for 30 seconds.
Types of Jumps:
- Single Bounce
- Double Bounce
- Slalom
- Scissor
- Front to Back
- Side to Side (Left to Right)
- High Knees
- Kick your Bottom
- Criss-Cross Rope
Teaching Cue: As rope hits the floor, jump over it.
Rest ideas after each type of jump:
- Stretching: calves, thighs, legs, airplane circles, wrist circles, stretching wrists (forward/backward)
- Criss-Cross Side Swing: hold both handles in one hand, clap both hands together and swing rope in criss-cross fashion.
Jump Rope for Duration: (2 min)
- Have students count their number of successful jumps done in 30 seconds
- Students should be speed jumping-trying to go as fast as possible
Teaching Cue: Go as fast as you can without messing up! If you mess up keep going!
Jumping to Music: (3 min)
- Teach song, demonstrate, then have children perform jumping to song
- If they mess up, keep going
Coffee:
I like coffee, I like tea
How many boys (girls) are wild about me?
1,2,3,4, (up to 20 or until a miss)
Cinderella:
Cinderella dressed in yella
Went upstairs to kiss a fella
Made a mistake, kissed a snake
How many doctors does it take?
1,2,3,4 (up to 20 or until a miss)
Teaching Cue: Sing with me!
Concluding Activity (5 min.)
Transition: Have students line up to put their ropes away, then spread out on along the gym perimeter line for stretching
Stretching Tasks (5 min):
- Tell children to stretch and act as specific things.
- Using rhythm counts: 1 2 3 4
- Stretch high (sky) & low (toes)
- Stretch left & right
- Arm circles
- Wrist circles
- Stretch whole body (wiggle)
- Stretch quads & hamstrings
- Giraffe (stretch tall)
- Gorilla (get big)
Teaching Cue: Big stretches!
Reference:
Thomas, J.R., Lee, A.M., & Thomas K.T. (1989). Rhythmic Activity. Physical Education for Children: Daily Lesson Plans, 99-152.
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Comments
I like how detailed your lesson is and that there is a lot of variety. I think this would be great for older students rather than first graders, however. In my first grade class, there are still some who can not jump rope properly, and they get discouraged easily. Maybe you can use these activities in a first grade unit plan and teach them over a period of time.
Great lesson plan, exceptionally detailed, motivating teaching cues! Red Light/Green Light is a lot of fun, a good warm-up activity.
This is a great lesson plan you guys!!! I am very impressed :) Ashlee and I are doing a lesson on jump roping next week as well and this gave me some good ideas thanks!
I like all the activities you guys have set up. It makes it nice especially if one doesn't work out as planned you have a lot of other activities you can do to keep them focused and entertained! Great Job!
For this lesson, I taught the warm-up (Red Light, Green Light) and the Single Short Rope portion of the skill development activities. Red Light, Green Light went reallly well overall. The children were extremely excited to play the game when I told them what we were going to be doing as most of them had heard of it and played it. I made sure to tell them in detail twice what red, yellow and green meant. For the most part they did a great job of following my directions, only a few children had a harder time transitioning between each 'light'.
For the Single Short Rope section, overall I was pretty pleased with how it turned out. I am glad I had alot of different smaller activities for the children to do as I had a long period of time with many of the children. We actually didnt get through all the groups who were to rotate from my group to the long-rope area so one group of about 6 children were doing the short rope the entire time. As first graders I knew that jumping would get them pretty tired fast, and multiple times after we finished doing a jumping section a bunch of children would sit down, seeing this I did my best to get them back on their feet and doing different stretching techniques to relax their legs and arms, I also alternated jumping with making shapes with their ropes and things of the like. I did find that pretty much the only type of jumping they could complete correctly was the single bounce jump. I had them 'try' other forms such as single leg, high knees, etc. and many of the children found this hard and actually frustrating. I simply kept reminding the kids that they were just to TRY and it was okay to mess up! When it came time to learn a chant, the kids did great with this. I had them come sit close to me and I taught them "Chickety Chickety" line by line. Then they picked their jump ropes back up and we went through the song many times. Since the long-rope portion took longer than we planned, we ran out of time and did not do the cool-down portion of the lesson plan. So as a final thing for the group of students I had, I had them sing "Chickety Chickety" and count until they messed up, then they had to sit down and the child who was the last one jumping won. I think the children loved making it somewhat of a competition, and it really made them push themselves to jump thier best.
We did this lesson primarily because the school we are at is having a Jump Rope for Heart day this coming Thursday, and so me and Angela felt it was a necessary step to have a day for learning jump roping techniques, and even practicing the more difficult ones simply because of Jump Rope for Heart. Overall, I am pretty pleased with the piece of the lesson I taught. I know me and Angela would definitly think of a better way to time and rotate the children so that last group was not extremely tired out by single short rope jumping the whole time, as well as getting a chance to learn how to long rope jump! We thought that simply spliting the class in half and rotating after 10 or so minutes could be a better alternative.
I was in charge of the long rope part of the lesson. The classroom teacher assisted me as I had two groups of 3 jumping with long ropes (I was very thankful for her help!). I would tell the students what I expected of them and then let each student try until they completeled a successful jump- then it was the next student's turn. This took longer for some students than others, which is why my rotation timing was off and one group didn't get to come to my station.
It was suprisingly stressful for me. In hindsight, I don't think I did a good job of explaining what I expected up front. I wish that at the start of every session, I would have demonstrated what I wanted them to do, and gave cues, rather than coaching each individual student, as there were a lot of the same errors.
As Noelle mentioned, Dr. Miekle suggested we split the class in 2, have 12 students with me, receiving a more in depth presentation, and more time to actully jump with the long rope. Plus, this gives them more a of a break from the intensity of short rope jumping.
The first graders were ready to learn to jump, some just needed more coaching than others based on their previous experiences.