Equipment needed:

• Cones (14)
• Set up track (that is mowed into the grass) with cones
• 2 cones each at the corners (passing zones)
• Set up same colored cones to mark each passing zone
• One cone at the top of the turn at each end
• Batons (6)

Warm-up:

• "Scenic"
  • All start at corner of building as you go outside
  • Jog around perimeter of outside property
  • Back down to a finish point where your track is set up

Skill Development:

• Divide class in 1/2
  • One group to the dash
  • One group to the relay
  • Switch groups half way through the class
• Dash
  • Divide group into 4 groups (making 4 lanes)
  • Teacher at other end (25-30 yards away)
  • Give hand signals
    • "Ready"- hands out to the side
    • "Set"- hands up in the air
    • "Go"- hands down to your sides
  • Call out running time as they pass you
    • They listen to their time as they go by
    • Try to beat their time the next time through
  • Stress that they are not trying to beat anyone else, rather they are trying to beat their previous time
• Relay
  • All in groups of 4 at the starting line, sitting gone behind the other
  • Give 1st person the baton
    • Explain that the baton must cross the finish line, but it must be carried, it can't be thrown
    • Send each person on relay team to a corner of the track
  • Run relay
    • After you hand off the baton, stay there at that spot for the next race
    • They will run each "leg" of the relay
  • Tell anchor man the time their team got
    • They tell the new anchor man what time their team has to get to "win" the race