Cleanup Cards: Return an Item, Fix a Mistake

Cleanup becomes a calm task: to return each item to the storage room, students draw a card with a technique error from the session and fix it out loud with one slow, clean rep. The gym gets tidied and technique gets reviewed.

How to play

1. Hand-out: each student picks up one item from the session (band, mat, cone, sheet) and lines up by the card box (1 min).
2. Card turns: draw a card (for example, 'elbows flared to 90 degrees in the push-up'), explain the error and do one slow, correct rep of the exercise; then put the item away (3 min).
3. Second round: students who already returned an item pick up another one still on the floor, draw a new card and repeat the task; the teacher checks that the storage room is tidy (2 min).
4. Unsolved cards: any card nobody could fix is read to the group and solved together (2 min).

Rules

• The rep is slow and low intensity: this is a cool-down.
• Wait in line without pushing, two meters from the person doing the rep.
• If you don't know the fix, you can ask a classmate for help.
• Equipment is put away neatly, not tossed.

Variations

Adaptations

• Limited mobility: explain the fix and show it with the arms or with a classmate as a model.
• Visual impairment: cards read by the teacher or printed in large type.
• Uncomfortable speaking in front of others: explain the fix only to the teacher.

Learning goals

• Recall the technique errors covered in the session.
• Demonstrate the fix with a slow rep.
• Help put equipment away in an orderly way.

Equipment for a class of 25

• error cards: 20
• box: 1

Teacher tip

Prep 20 cards with the errors you saw most during the session. Put the box by the storage room door so the line doesn't cross paths with people putting things away.

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