Table of Contents List of Exercises
Pass A Bean Bag Around Quartet - Receive And Pass Simultaneously, Center Clap - In a Quartet
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About:
This game providers a meaningful challenge to have members of the group work together and achieve a specific result. Built into this game is that students engage with the student who is across the circle from them. Student often sit next to or near their closer friends. The person across the circle a person that they are less connected with. That is the person they have to work with.
Purpose:
Contact, Cooperation, Coordination particularly with several peers.
Under stress, we focus on one this at a time.Polyvagal Theory. To do this exercise participants have to pay attention to both the several movements at the same time and use periferal vision. They have to simultaneously track the other three people that they are doing the exercise with.
Sending and receiving and attending to cues with several others.
Directions:
Level 1
Do this after the group is able to do 'Pass Two Bean Bags Around The Circle -S ynchonize The Clap' and the students can generally keep rhythm through the process.
If they can't do the passing well, this will only lead to frustration.
Practice having the passing hand face down and the receiving hand face up.
Start with teacher and assistant model this. They sit across the circle from each other. They each have a bean bag in their right hand.
They clap the bean bag in the center line of their body. Pass the bean bag into their left hands. Then the pass to studnets on their left.
Two students across the circle from each other receive the bean bags. They need to look at each other, and coordinate clapping the bean bags at the same time.
This cueing can be done non verbally through movement and gesture or verbally using an agreed on Count off. saying "One, Two, Ready, Go".
This can be a good exercise to let group members try different approaches to counting off and then evaluate together how well they worked.
Glitches:
- One student is out of time. Others student keep moving beanbags and create a pile on.
- Teach start slowly and only do the next move once everyone has passed successfully.
Level 2: Switch - Switch Directions on Cue
Call the Switch on the Pass so there is time to actually change the direction of the bean bag on the clap.
PsychoPhysiologyTheory
Under stress, we focus on one this at a time. When ventral vagal system is active, we can attend to the field and perceive multiple things happening as part of a unified whole.
Next Exercise:
Pass an instrument around the room - play a particular 'piece' such as pluck each string on a ukulele.
Toss A Bean Bag Back and Forth With A Partner
Do this game on Balance Boards