Seniors Teach: Traditional Sports Festival for a Younger Class

A real session where seniors run traditional-sport stations for a visiting class of younger students. They put their planning into practice, manage groups of younger kids and collect feedback to evaluate how they did.

How to play

1. Senior groups set up stations with their session sheet in hand and safety-check the equipment (7 min).
2. Welcome: a spokesperson greets the visitors, explains the stations and splits them into six groups (4 min).
3. Station rotation: six 4-minute rounds with 30 seconds to switch; each station explains the game's origin in one sentence and plays it (27 min).
4. Wrap-up: the younger students fill out a short feedback sheet per station (favorite part and what they didn't understand) (4 min).
5. Pick-up and quick review of the sheets by each senior group (3 min).

Rules

• Each station has a safety lead who stops the game if needed.
• Respectful treatment of younger students: positive corrections, no yelling.
• The teacher's whistle signals station changes and the general stop.
• No station involves contact: stick game and wrestling only in slow motion and without grips.

Variations

Adaptations

• Limited mobility: the senior runs the station from a fixed spot or acts as spokesperson and overall coordinator.
• Younger students with disabilities: each station uses the adaptation designed in the earlier workshop.
• Senior unsure about teaching: shares the station with a partner and handles the demonstration.

Learning goals

• Lead an activity for younger students safely.
• Share the cultural value of traditional sports.
• Evaluate their own teaching using participants' feedback.

Equipment for a class of 25

• cones: 40
• foam balls: 12
• pool noodles: 12
• thick ropes: 1
• whistles: 6
• feedback sheets: 30

Teacher tip

Coordinate the schedule with the younger class's teacher and let the front office know. During rotations, stand in the middle where you can see every station; the typical problem is one station running long and throwing off the rest, so the whistle rules.

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