Treasure Grab is a physical education game designed to help students develop their fundamental movement skills. Dribbling with their feet, students work to be the team that gathers the most beanbags before the end of the round.
A rectangular playing area with a hoop in each corner serving as team home bases, and beanbags piled in the centre.
Dribble out to the centre, collect a beanbag, and bring it back to your team's home base. Play continues until no beanbags remain.
Students are not permitted to kick their ball at any time.
Students should move at speeds that are safe for a shared space.
Students should be mindful of others when dribbling their ball.
Builds allow you to increase the game's complexity, one layer at a time.
The class gets into a scattered formation within the playing area, and each student is given a developmentally appropriate soccer ball.
Using music as the start signal, students begin moving in general space while dribbling their soccer ball.
While students are moving in general space, place hoops in a scattered formation throughout the playing area.
Now, when the music stops, students must quickly dribble to an empty hoop while demonstrating control of their ball.
Between each round, introduce one of the critical elements of the skill and have students focus on demonstrating it when the music starts back up. The critical elements of dribbling with feet are:
During the last round of Musical Hoops, while students are dribbling, remove all of the hoops except for one in each corner, leaving four hoops.
When the music stops, students move to the remaining hoops. Those groupings become the teams for Treasure Grab.
Place beanbags in the middle of the playing area and play the full version of the game as described in How To Play.
For the last build, remove all but one soccer ball at each home base and assign a critical element of dribbling with feet to each team.
Teams now collect beanbags relay style. Only the player with the ball may go collect a beanbag. When they return to their home base, they hand the ball to the next teammate in line and move to the back of the line.
While the active player is dribbling, the players waiting at home base act as Mini-Coaches. Mini-Coaches watch to see whether the active player is demonstrating the critical element assigned to their team.
If the player is demonstrating it, the Mini-Coaches give a thumbs up. If not, they give a thumbs down. This is a simple system that helps students stay focused on mastering the skill one critical element at a time.
After each round, rotate the critical elements teams focus on so that by the end of the game each team has focused on each one.
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