HENRY

● List the strategies for modification

1. Make scoring easier

•  Basketball: Lower the basketball hoops

•  Soccer: Use larger goals

•  Use shorter rackets with larger heads to allow for more control

•  Friendly pitchers in softball , softer and larger ball tend to increase scoring

•  All increase use of techniques and tactics for scoring

2. Slow the movement of the ball

• Slow pace of games helps develop game sense

• Gives students more time to react and move

• Learn how to anticipate movement of objects, teammates, and opponents

• Use balls that are larger or lighter than regulation equipment

3. Increase opportunities to practice techniques and tactics

• Reduce team size

• Practice successful repetitions in relevant context will allow students to be more successful

• Small sided games help students learn techniques and tactics more quickly

• Friendly guarding when beginning to learn a sport

4. Sequence games to enable the learning of tactics

• Invasion games requires complex tactics

• Start with a series of small sided games and progress to larger games

• Introduce more concepts as games get bigger

• Field length should be large relative to number of players

• Can be made smaller as students develop game sense

• Altering spaces can make some tactics more appropriate than others (e.g. a longer, narrower space)

5. Change Rules that Define Scoring

•  Differential scoring- used to emphasize the usage of certain techniques and tactics

•  Give more points for what teachers want students to focus on.

•  Negative points are used to take away teams total points
•  Provide game modifications to different sports

● Game Modifications:

  Event and Performance Sports

1.Practice should focus on the technical execution (Modifications - equipment and environment)

2.goals of modifications increase chances of success, ease the execution, emphasis on a particular phase of execution

3.Hurdles-use lower hurdles, Swimming- use fins for less skilled, Gymnastics- use lower, wider balance beams

Target Games

1.Archery- use bows with lower draw weights, use larger targets, reduced the distance

2.Golf- reduce distance from the tee to the green, increase size of the target, use modified golf balls with limited travel distance

3.Ten pin bowling- allow students to release the ball closer to pins, and use bumpers

Wall and Net Court Games

1.Racket sports:

● Provide game modifications in APE class