Rulebook Cleanup: Answer to Put Away the Gear

Each team collects the session's gear, but before dropping each load in the storage room they have to read and answer a card about running-event rules. It tidies up the class, lowers intensity and reviews the rules.

How to play

1. Assign tasks: each team of four takes one type of equipment (1 min).
2. First trips: each trip to storage means drawing a card, reading it aloud and answering as a team before putting the gear away (2 min).
3. Last trips: the team switches reader for every card and checks that nothing is left on the course (2 min).
4. Go over the tricky answers with the teacher (2 min).

Rules

• Walk, don't run, while carrying equipment.
• Poles are carried upright, by two people if there are many.
• Answer as a team: everyone weighs in before deciding.
• If an answer is wrong, read the right one and move on, no penalty.

Variations

Adaptations

• Students with visual impairments: a teammate reads the card and they give the team's answer.
• Students with limited mobility: act as official reader and hold the cards.
• Students with reading difficulties: cards with pictograms and short sentences.

Learning goals

• Learn basic rules of running events.
• Help put away equipment.
• Wind down in an orderly way.

Equipment for a class of 25

• relay batons: 8
• cones: 30
• question cards: 12

Teacher tip

Sample cards: the 4x100 exchange zone is 30 m long; the baton can't be thrown; if dropped, the runner who had it picks it up; at senior level one false start means disqualification; knocking over a hurdle unintentionally isn't a disqualification. Common mistake: one student always answers for everyone; rotate who gives the answer.

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