Instructor:

Miss Michelle Ulmen
Central Washington University
Ellensburg, Washington 98926
e-mail: ulmenm@cwu.edu

The purpose of each of these activities is to help students develop team cooperation, trust, communication skills, and problem solving skills.  Throughout the activities the students will be enhancing their personal development and challenged as individuals to face their own perceived limitations.  Teamwork is developed by working, playing and accomplishing goals together.

Outdoor adventure activities are becoming more and more popular in secondary school physical education programs.  They include a variety of activities that provide students with challenging and meaningful experiences, such as bicycle touring, archery, canoeing and kayaking, in-line skating,  mountain biking, orienteering, outdoor survival, roller hockey, school camps, sea kayaking, skiing, snowshoeing, ultimate frisbee, wilderness survival, and cooperative games, trust games and initiative activities.  The extent of the activities taught depends on the extent of the schools resources and the interests and qualifications of the individual teacher.

These activities are designed to meet the  Essential Academic Learning Requirements in Health and Fitness and in Communication  After completing this unit, the student will:

• Apply rules and safety procedures, practice sportsmanship and teamwork, and cooperatively participate in a variety of group and individual fitness activities.
• Develop fundamental physical skills and progress to complex movement activities as physically able.
• Develop the personal skills necessary to comfortably and enjoyably participate in cooperative activities.
• Acquire skills to move safely.
• Understand concepts of physical fitness.
• Recognize patterns of growth and development.
• Use listening and observation skills to gain understanding.
• Use communication strategies and skills effectively to present ideas to others.
• Analyze and reflect of ideas while paying attention and listening in a variety of situations.
• Use a variety of effective listening strategies.
• Encourage group members to offer ideas and points of view.
• Respect that a solution may require honoring and other points of view.

After each day that a cooperative activity is taught, the students will go through a debriefing or questions to help them understand what they participated in.  These qu

estions will be included in a write-up, which will be put into a notebook for the end of the year.  Participation and the notebook will be included in the students final grade of the year.

Assessment Materials

90-100% = A
80 - 89% = B
70 - 79% = C
60 - 69% = D
less than 59% = retake