Teaching Values- An Olympic Education Toolkit - International ...

SECTION 4 THE FIVE EDUCATIONAL VALUES OF OLYMPISM
INVENT A
FAIR PLAY GAME
MAKE FAIR PLAY BEHAVIOUR A PRIORITY FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS IN YOUR SPORTS CLUBS AND SCHOOLS.
USE FAIR PLAY GAMES TO HELP LEARNERS TO FOCUS ON FAIR PLAY AS AN OBJECTIVE.
1 Younger learners could make up a
game, set up a code of rules and identify
some “punishments” if the rules are
broken.
2 Older learners could work with another
person or with a group to make up
different kinds of games using different
kinds of equipment.
Materials: balls of different sizes, bean
bags, scoops and whiffle balls, hula
hoops, skipping ropes, benches, other
small sports equipment; For the younger
children – provide a collection of different
types of sport equipment. Ask each group
to pick one item and make up a game
and the rules.
PROCEDURE
1 Make up and photocopy cards for each
of the “make-up-a-game” tasks below.
procedures, choosing a card from
envelope C. For games #5 from
envelope C, eight learners will be
cooperating to reach an objective
during the game; for #6 a group of
four learners will be competing with
#1 COOPERATE
With one other person
Make up a game in which you send a ball
high into the air.
Make up a striking game using the wall and
a big ball.
Can you think of a game using a badminton
racket, a badminton shuttle and a dustbin?
another group of four learners.
6 Learners could then teach their
games to other groups. Offer a prize
to the game that is voted “best game”
by the learners.
#2 COMPETE
With one other person
Make up a game in which you roll a ball.
Make up a game in which you use a scoop
and a whiffle ball.
Make up a game in which the equipment
moves, but you stay in one place. Choose
any equipment.
2 Put #1 & #2 in one envelope (A); put
#3 and #4 in another envelope (B);
put #5 and #6 in a third envelope (C).
3 Learners will start in pairs. Each pair
will pick a “make-up-a-game” card
from the A envelope. Each pair
chooses one of the instructions on
their game card and plays the game
that they make up. Note that half of
the cards ask the learners to
cooperate as they play their game;
the other half asks them to compete
against each other.
4 Each pair of learners will join up with
another pair of learners. Each group
of four learners then picks a “makeup-a-game”
card from envelope B,
and follows one of the instructions on
their card to make up a game. Again,
note that half of the cards ask the
learners to cooperate as they play
their game; the other half asks them
to compete against each other.
5 Each group of four learners then
joins with another group of four
learners, and follows the same
#3 COOPERATE
As a pair with two other people (4 people)
Make up a game using two bean bags.
How can you use a ball, the air and the floor
in a game?
How could you keep a ball in the air without
touching the ground?
#5 COMPETE
With a group of four people against another
group of four people
Make up a game in which you use skipping
ropes.
Make up a game in which you throw bean
bags. What can you use as a target?
Make up a game using a ball and two benches.
#4 COMPETE
With a partner against two other people
Make up a catching game. You choose the
equipment.
Make up a game in which you and the ball
keeping moving towards a goal line.
Make up a tag game in which players have
to trade teams.
#6 GET EVERYBODY
INVOLVED
Make up a game using a ball and a target in
which each person makes a prediction for
her/his own score.
Make up a game in which everybody rolls a
hula hoop.
Play a group game using two utility balls.
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