Equipment needed:

• Jump Ropes (one for each student)
• Tape/CD Player (1)
• "Perceptual Motor Rhythm Games."
  • 7 Jumps.
  • "Motor Fitness Rhythm Games."
  • Move Like a Machine.
• Gator skin balls (one for each student)

Warm-up:

• All get a Jump rope.
  • All jump rope using various styles alone.
  • Ask to see different styles of jumping.
  • Have kids show these different ideas
    • All others copy these ideas.
  • Play music with strong base beat that the kids can hear.
    • Have everyone sit down and clap the beat together.
  • Have one side of the gym stand up with their jump ropes.
    • The other side remains sitting with their ropes.
  • When music starts, The side that is sitting down claps out the beat of the music.
  • On your signal, the people standing, begin to jump rope so their rope hits the floor when the other kids hands clap (to match the beat of the music).

Skill Development:

• All get a gator ball and sit around the center red circle.
• Play "7 Jumps" and have kids try to figure out the 3 parts of the game:
  • Carrying the ball around the gym.
  • Stopping.
  • Bouncing the ball.
• Go through sequence with kids moving throughout the gym.
• *ANYONE WHO BOUNCES THE BALL AT THE WRONG TIME IS OUT UNTIL THE "BOUNCING PART" COMES BACK IN THE MUSIC.
  • This will force them to listen to the music to know when to come back into the game.

• All sit in scattered position in gym with their gator ball.
  • Play "Move Like a Machine."
• Tell kids that these are recordings from outer space.
  • Relate story of John Glen and the "sparks" he saw out his window while in space.
• They are to try to figure out how the thing that would make that sound would move.
  • They then move like that "thing" in their own self-space with their ball.
• Play each part of "Move Like a Machine" separately
  • Have kids figure out ways to move to match the noise.
  • Demonstrate some of the ideas.

• All get into groups of 4-6 with their gator balls.
  • Repeat parts of "move like a machine"
  • Groups now work together to be synchronized with their movements.
  • Demonstrate different ideas.