Rodeo Roundup is a physical education game designed to help students focus on an important fundamental movement skill: galloping. Wranglers and horses work together to help each other learn, improve, and have some fun!
Students should always keep their eyes up and look out for others as they gallop.
Wranglers should use soft tags below the shoulders.
The playing area should be large enough to accommodate a large group of students moving in general space.
Builds allow you to increase the game's complexity, one layer at a time.
The teacher divides the playing area into thirds. One third serves as the ranch, where the rancher lives. The other two thirds serve as the prairie. Students get into a scattered formation within the prairie, playing the role of wild horses.
On the teacher's signal, the wild horses begin galloping around the prairie, attempting to demonstrate their very best galloping.
The rancher calls freeze, or uses a rancher's whistle, and the wild horses come to a stop. The rancher shares one of the important keys of galloping, then signals for the horses to resume, focusing on the key just shared.
This continues until the rancher has introduced all five important keys of galloping and the wild horses have had a chance to try each one.
Students get into pairs. One begins as the wrangler, the other as a horse. Before play begins, the pair has a conversation about the important keys of galloping, and the horse selects one key to focus on.
Wranglers stand in the ranch and horses scatter out in the prairie. On the rancher's signal, the horses begin to gallop while their wrangler observes.
After a few minutes, the pairs regroup and the wrangler gives the horse feedback on their galloping. Players then swap roles for the second half of the round.
Between rounds, students form new pairs so they receive feedback from multiple people throughout the activity.
The rancher creates a single track course within the ranch by setting up a line of cones. Students get into a scattered formation within the prairie as horses.
The rancher selects a few students to play the role of wranglers, each given a lasso, which is a medium length pool noodle.
On the rancher's signal, horses and wranglers all begin to gallop throughout the prairie. As they gallop, wranglers attempt to tag horses with their lasso.
A tagged horse makes their way to the ranch and gallops around the track. If the rancher sees a horse galloping with a mature pattern, that horse may return to the prairie.
If the rancher sees a horse or wrangler performing anything other than galloping while out in the prairie, such as running, the rancher can call that person into the ranch to demonstrate mature galloping around the track.
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