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Setup and Equipment

Six to Eight Scooters
Set small cones in a large circle near the center of the gym to make a race track.
Line up each team at each of the sides of the ‘circular “track”

Guidelines for Indy 500

This will be a race around the outside of the cones. You’ll be lining up like it’s a 400 meter relay on the track.
Break into pairs by your team’s cone. The partner can only push when traveling around the curves. The driver has to glide or make themselves move on the straightaways.
When you get back to your starting part, change places or let your other partners take a turn. Continue taking turns moving around the track.
How many laps can your team do in five, or maybe 10 minutes?

Glide Control

Two partners from each team line up at the black line in the front of the gym. One is standing, the other is sitting on the scooter.
On the teacher’s signal, the person in back leans down low and pushes their scooter partner towards the climbing wall;
When they hit the wall or calmly stop before hitting the wall, pick up the scooter and run it back to the front of the line
The scooter is handed off to the next people in line and they now go to the end of the line.

Parachute and Scooters

Setup and Equipment:

Six to eight of the three wheeled scooters.
If there are eight scooters, then each of the four teams will have two scooters.
Spread out around the parachute and do the merry-go-round by having everyone turn and skip in one direction. Then,stop and go in the opposite direction.
Six to eight people start moving under the parachute in the same directions as the parachute is moving.
Practice moving the parachute up and down.
Choose six people to get a scooter and go under the parachute and begin moving around.
Whenever the parachute changes direction, the scooters should also change direction. Start walking or skipping, then change directions and moving the parachute up and down.
Whenever the parachute stops, the scooters can spin around or move any direction they want to.
After a couple of minutes change places, so everyone gets a turn under the parachute.

Scooters

Scooters are not skateboards, no standing on them. Start moving when you are on your scooter (Never run and jump on your scooter).

Get on your scooter and move in one of the six ways listed below.Set this up in your gym by putting half of your class spread out on the line at one end of the gym and the other half on the opposite end. Students will practice moving using all of the following methods. It’s important that students know that these are the only safe ways to move on your scooters. It also helps to have students make the effort to avoid collisions at the center of the gym.
The students follow the directions for each of the following movements by moving to the opposite end of the gym on the teacher’s signal, turning around and waiting for the next direction.

Walk Forward: Pull forward with feet only – Hands on side handles
Walk Backward: Push backward with feet only -hands on handles, turn head around slighltly to see behind you
Arm Pull Forward: Lie on scooter and balance, use hands only to pull your body forward.
Alligator: Lie on scooter – Use hands and feet
Double Knee Coast: Both knees on scooters –
Use hands to pull yourself forward
One Knee On: Use the foot on the floor to propel yourself forward, while both hands hold onto the side handles.

Musical Scooters Warmup Activity

Students move in one of the modes from above.
When the music stops, spin yourself by using your hands only
Variation: Do a dead bug, by flipping on to your back, holding the scooter in the air and shaking your scooter and legs in the air.

Indy 500:

Setup and Equipment

Six color teams and six scooters
Set color team cones in a large track formation near the center of the gym to make a race track. Set the cones up so that there is one at each of the short end of the track and two on each of the long sides (straightaways) of the track.
Line up each team beside the cone of their team facing in a clockwise directions.

Guidelines for Indy 500

This will be a race around the outside of the cones. You’ll be lining up like it’s a 400 meter relay on the track.
Break into pairs by your team’s cone. The partner can only push when traveling around the curves. The driver has to glide or make themselves move on the straightaways.
When you get back to your starting part, change places or let your other partners take a turn. Continue taking turns moving around the track.
How many laps can your team do in five, or maybe 10 minutes?

Glide Control

Two partners from each team line up at the black line in the front of the gym. One is standing, the other is sitting on the scooter.
On the teacher’s signal, the person in back leans down low and pushes their scooter partner towards the climbing wall;
When they hit the wall or calmly stop before hitting the wall, pick up the scooter and run it back to the front of the line
The scooter is handed off to the next people in line and they now go to the end of the line.

Scooter Games:

Scooter Freeze Tag

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