Game Report: Stretching While Reviewing the Score Sheet

A cool-down where teams stretch in a circle while the scorekeeper reads the game data and the referee explains their calls. It ends with a signed game report and one tactical and fair-play improvement.

How to play

1. Easy walk around the field breathing through the nose while everyone helps put equipment away (2 min).
2. Each team sits in a circle on mats and holds 30-second static stretches for hamstrings, quads and shoulders while its scorekeeper reads runs, points, fouls and outs (4 min).
3. In a hip stretch, the group picks one questionable call and the referee explains it with the rulebook in hand (2 min).
4. Captains, referee and scorekeeper sign the report card and write one specific proposal for the next game (2 min).

Rules

• Hold stretches without bouncing and without reaching pain.
• Listen to the referee without interrupting; questions are raised respectfully at the end.
• The improvement proposal must be a specific action, not a complaint.

Variations

Adaptations

• Limited mobility: stretches trunk and shoulders from the wheelchair and can read the report aloud.
• Hearing impairment: the scorekeeper shows the card in writing and the group sits to make lip-reading easy.
• Autism: has a fixed, predictable role, such as writing the final proposal.

Learning goals

• Return to a calm state after exercise with appropriate stretching.
• Interpret the game data collected by the scorekeeper.
• Evaluate referee calls based on knowledge of the rules.

Equipment for a class of 25

• exercise mats: 28
• cards: 6
• pencils: 6

Teacher tip

Keep the reports: they are useful assessment evidence for fair-play criteria. It works as the closing for any game in this unit.

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