Focus on your coordination with a juggling exercise using balloons or tissues.We'll leave you with a challenge you can do next or anytime you need a break. You'll need 6 to 10 balloons or tissues, and a timer.
Year 8
Year 8
These lessons can support short-term learning at home when face-to-face learning is interrupted.
Students can start at lesson 1 and work their way through in order. Each lesson is either a video or a PowerPoint presentation.
You can also:
- learn how to view PowerPoint files on different devices
- find out more about learning at home
- access lesson guides for each year level
- view all lessons for all year levels.
Coordination
Cardiovascular endurance
Use playing cards to determine your exercises for today and the number of times you need to do them. Today is about elevating your heart rate!You'll need any deck of playing cards or game cards with numbers and symbols, or colours.
Speed
How fast is your footwork? Challenge yourself today with some speed ladder drills. You'll need a timer and 9 markers, such as chalk or straight objects including sticks, rulers, rolled up towels.
Flexibility
Check your flexibility with today's activities and see if it changes. You'll need 2 pieces of tape or something to mark the ground.
Muscular endurance
Flip a coin and roll a dice to choose your muscular endurance activities for today and see how many you can complete. You'll need a coin and dice (you can make one if you don’t have one from a board game).
Agility
Practice your agility by jumping around a quadrant square.Then come up with your own fun agility course to do next or anytime you need a break.
Power
Today's challenges and exercises involve the explosive power of your upper and lower body using some plyometrics games. You'll need some tape or chalk, a ball or balled up clothes or alfoil and a basket.
Strength
Build your strength with a circuit and challenge yourself to hold a plank as long as you can. You'll need some weights such as cans or plastic bottles filled with water.
Balance
Use a reach test to check your balance and create a course to help your balance. You'll need some tape and a texta.
Reaction time
Play some physical activities to work on your reaction time. You'll need a timer, playing cards or different coloured markers, 6 balls or markers that can be labelled 1 to 6.
Pages
Internet safety advice
These lessons might include links to other websites, applications, multimedia or video hosting sites such as YouTube.
When accessing these links, we recommend you do not:
- subscribe
- like
- comment
- download files
- share personal details
- take part in discussion forums
- take part in other social media aspects of the sites.
If any part of the online content makes you feel uncomfortable, close the website window and notify an adult (parent or teacher) immediately.
Visit protect yourself online: a guide to cyber security for young people to learn more.
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