Team Building and Cooperative Games - Physical Education

[@ThePESpecialist]

These are awesome, thanks for sharing Jakob! For those without benches you can also just use a 2x6 or 1x6 piece of lumber, I would recommend to sand it down and if you want to go an extra mile paint it with some poly so nobody gets a splinter

[@kroppsoving]

Excellent advice! Thanks for the feedback:)

[@timpearson2078]

Hi Jakob, These are great! I've been teaching PE for 35 years and am always looking for new team building activities. Never seen the Mat moving games before. I loved your explaination at the end regarding teaching teamwork.

[@kroppsoving]

Thanks for the feedback Tim! Glad you enjoyed the resource:)

[@priskela1]

Can you be my PE Mentor

[@AlenaDawn33]

great ideas definitely will try with the kids I coach thanks!

[@jackiego1]

I'm teaching the theme of teamwork this week to Kindy students for PE in Korea. Gonna try a few of these activities. Thank you for the suggestions and lesson at the end on what values we can learn through teamwork.

[@kroppsoving]

Happy to hear you liked the video! Best of luck with your students:)

[@MuhammadRidwan-el2lv]

Tahnks! it's helping me so much to improve and improvise what games i need to give my students

[@kroppsoving]

Thanks! Happy to hear the video helped you:)

[@education.games_TM]

These are awesome, thanks for sharing 👍🙏

[@kroppsoving]

Thank you! Happy you liked it :)

[@xommul79]

Love to see your risk assessments

[@kroppsoving]

Hello @xommul79! I have never had any injuries during these exercises. Ahead of the different games I always talk to the students about safety. For example in the activity in the thumbnail I stress the importance of not dropping the mattress on the students under it. The students moving ahead are always on the lookout for it to tip over. In a normal class there will always be students at the side of it unlike in the video. At the end we stress that they stop the movement and then tip it to the side together. The ones at the side then holds it so all students get out safely. Did you have any specific game in mind that you find challenging?

[@anatavarez-perez8150]

thank you for the great ideas

[@jmerc5049]

Great Video, Very useful. Where did you order the matts from? And if you don't have matts is there another material you can use to do the same team building activity?

[@kroppsoving]

Hello Jmerc! Thanks for your feedback :) The mats come with most schools in Norway, but you can pretty much use any mats. Except for the sliding part.

[@kathystanley9520]

Great ideas! What are the dimensions of the benches???

[@kroppsoving]

Thank you Kathy! The dimensions are - 3,0 m x 28 cm x 35 cm:)

[@Raemcmannis]

Where did you order these benches from? Your videos are awesome

[@kroppsoving]

@Raeanna: Thank you! These benches are standard in all Norwegian pe gyms. But you could swap them for mats in most of the challenges:)

[@Raemcmannis]

Definitely!!! Keep inspiring

[@loirnicolas3200]

I'm not sure but maybe you should pay attention to the way they grab the bench. It's seem for me dangerous for their lower back when they curve it and put a charge like that 😊 sorry for my English, I'm from Belgium

[@loirnicolas3200]

But Instead of the things I mention, it's a great video, thanks for sharing with us ❤️

[@kroppsoving]

Hello Loir! Thanks for your feedback:) I agree that the lifting technique they use are not a good technique for lifting. I tried to remind them to use their legs when lifting, but they forgot it as soon as the competition started. Luckily the benches are not heavy and they are several lifting together. Definitely something to be careful about!

[@marbelhaj1234]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@kroppsoving]

Happy to help :)

[@sunshinemagicalrainbowunic4004]

Gee I don’t know how happy kids would be if Starting over was based on 1 person

[@kroppsoving]

That is part of the challenge. You have to talk to your students about this. Everyone makes mistakes, and mistakes are ok and should be accepted. If you don't, you will have students that yell at each other and argue.

[@kroppsoving]

Im not saying it is easy, but it IS a good challenge for them alongside the actual physical challenge:)

[@JohnMutum-l1r]

@@kroppsoving Sounds like real life. Teams can always be affected by the individual. Teaching them to overcome those challenges in a positive way will help them for life.

[@kroppsoving]

@@JohnMutum-l1r I couldnt agree more.