{"id":3420,"date":"2016-03-15T12:43:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2020-01-28T14:30:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T19:30:37","slug":"obstacle-course-for-pe-class-grades-k-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/obstacle-course-for-pe-class-grades-k-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Obstacle Course for PE Class &#8211; Grades K-6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25789\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obstacle-course-photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"Obstacle course photo\" width=\"735\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obstacle-course-photo-1.jpg 735w, https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obstacle-course-photo-1-220x166.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obstacle-course-photo-1-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obstacle-course-photo-1-398x300.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PE teacher Kyle Winter shares with us his obstacle course idea for students K-6:<\/p>\n<p>During my Jump Rope for Heart unit I decided to try a more abstract approach to our \u201cJump Day.\u201d Jump day is meant to celebrate the ending of our jump-roping unit, having a healthy heart, and collection of donations for the American Heart Association. After gathering some input from my students, I decided against a normal jump roping circuit for Jump Day. Instead, I developed this obstacle course designed to work on a plethora of locomotor movements including jumping.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Equipment used:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tunnel: 4 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/search\/index.php?q=tumbling+mats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tumbling mats<\/a><\/strong>, 1 large<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/search\/index.php?q=%27%20parachute&amp;category=SPFPAR&amp;search_mode=narrow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">parachute<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/search\/index.php?q=hurdles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Hurdles<\/strong><\/a>: 3 small cones, 3 large cones, removable hurdles<\/li>\n<li>Jump Squares: 1 Speed <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/item\/economy-agility-ladder-W10879\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ladder<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Hula Tires: 12 \u2013 16 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/sports-pe-recreation\/hoops\/?origq=hula%20hoops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hula hoops<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Plank Walk: 2 short buddy walkers, 1 hula hoop, 2 hula hoop holders<\/li>\n<li>Hop Scotch: 12<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/search\/index.php?q=poly+spots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poly spots<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Army Crawl: 2 milk crates, 1 hockey stick<\/li>\n<li>Tarzan Swing: 2 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/search\/index.php?q=climbing+ropes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climbing ropes<\/a><\/strong>, 3 tumbling mats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Video:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/a\/ssww.com\/file\/d\/0B7oKLiMcZvYpYy1fT3psVTZBd3M\/preview\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you see in the video below, the kids were able to practice their running, jumping, hopping, crawling, and transfer of weight skills all in a 30 second time span while having a blast! The activity itself was meant to promote having a healthy heart by moving in not so traditional ways. The students LOVED the activity and keep asking me if when we are going to do it again. Every grade including kindergarten to sixth completed this activity. As a friendly competition, I decided to time how long it took everyone in their class to complete the obstacle course. I then took those times and had each grade level challenge the other classes with in their grade. The obstacle course took no longer than 10-15 minutes to set up by myself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/obstacle-course-PE.jpg\" alt=\"obstacle course PE\" width=\"900\" height=\"897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/obstacle-course-PE.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/obstacle-course-PE-220x219.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/obstacle-course-PE-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/obstacle-course-PE-768x765.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/obstacle-course-PE-301x300.jpg 301w, https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/obstacle-course-PE-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>About the Author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3670 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kyle-Winter-photo-e14580576773751.png\" alt=\"obstacle course for physed\" width=\"191\" height=\"214\" \/>Kyle Winter attended Illinois State University to receive his\u00a0Physical Education degree. He has been teaching Physical Education for three years. Kyle currently teaches in a suburb of Chicago known as Downers Grove, IL. His\u00a0school district is very passionate about the Jump Rope for Heart program and Outdoor Education. He\u00a0loves to find new and modern ways to put a fun twist on learning time old skills.\u00a0Follow Kyle\u00a0on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrWinterDG58\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MrWinterDG58<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PE teacher Kyle Winter shares with us his obstacle course idea for students K-6: During my Jump Rope for Heart unit I decided to try a more abstract approach to our \u201cJump Day.\u201d Jump day is meant to celebrate the &hellip; <a class=\"read-more-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/obstacle-course-for-pe-class-grades-k-6\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3,18,1988],"tags":[644,642,645,638,641,639,412,582,404,637,836,456,640,20,643,251],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obstacle Course for PE Class - Grades K-6 - S&amp;S Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/obstacle-course-for-pe-class-grades-k-6\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obstacle Course for PE Class - Grades K-6 - S&amp;S Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PE teacher Kyle Winter shares with us his obstacle course idea for students K-6: During my Jump Rope for Heart unit I decided to try a more abstract approach to our \u201cJump Day.\u201d Jump day is meant to celebrate the &hellip; 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