ADAPTING ACTIVITIES

Task from Creativity Lesson

1) What is creativity?2) Choose an activity. Write down an

example of why creativity is beneficial in that activity.

3)Choose a different activity which you have participated in recently. Write down an example of how you were creative.

4) What is re-creativity?5) In dance, why is creativity important?

Adapting Activities

What does it mean?

Adapting activities = Changing activities

Why do we adapt activities?Think of when I have adapted activities

in our SGPE lessons.

Why?

We can adapt activities in order to make them EASIER.We may wish to do so when focussing on improving individual skillsIt is also important for beginners and young performers in an activity, that they attempt a simplified version first, and build up to the full activity

How can we adapt activities?

Activity : FootballProblem : Group of young players are becoming extremely tired playing on full pitch

Solution

Reduce the area on which they are playingThis will be much less demanding on the players fitness

More adaptations

Reduce the number of players in the gameE.g. in Hockey, playing small sided games allows for Players to have more time on the ball More space for players to work in More time for the players It also reduces the amount of options a

player has, which in turn will make the decision making process easier, allowing said player to work on the skills of the game

From this . . . Lots of bodies; difficult decisions in pressured situations

. . .to this. More Space; More time; Easier decisions

Equipment

Give me and example of when it would be appropriate to adapt equipment within an activity. Tennis/badminton – small rackets allow for more control, especially for younger performers/beginnersFootball – Use smaller balls for young players

Switch the size 5 football for a size 3 or 4 (smaller), to help young players.

Conditioned Games

What are conditioned games?We change the rules to give us a FOCUS to our games i.e. to work on a particular skill.If we want to work on our passing in Basketball, we would ban dribbling.This would force everyone in the group to pass and move, as it would be the only way to progress towards the basket