Lab 8

1. Explain three important benefits of hoop play.
Hoola Hoops are able to work on several fitness aspects such as muscular strength and cardiovascular endurance. They can work on skills such as agility and coordination. They can also set up classroom management opportunities because of their different colors.
2. Give an example of how hoops can be used to reinforce a cognitive concept linked with classroom learning.
Hoola Hoops can be put used as a analog clock. You can give directions to walk around the hoop to show the time. You can also teach the kids the difference between clockwise and counter clockwise.
3. Describe how hoops can be utilized to promote growth in the affective domain.
Students can be put into pairs and be asked to hold hands with their partner as they make their way into each hoola hoop that has the color they chose. The partners aren't allowed to talk and must communicate non verbally in order to be safe and make their way through all the hoops.
4. Utilize the internet to gather information about ponds and related ecology to use in your field experience teaching or future teaching.

What lives in ponds? Turtles, fish, ducks, snails, dragon flies. Use props and pictures. Can incorporate groups as different animals.