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Big problem verses small problem activity

This is an excerpt from Creating Games With a Purpose by Jan Bishop,Constance Kapral,Amanda Amtmanis.

Big Problem Versus Small Problem. Connecting to the Standards—Grades PreK-2 Grade-Span Learning Indicators. 1.2.10 Demonstrates kicking a ball in a variety of non-dynamic practice tasks. 3.2.8 Discusses problems and solutions with teacher support in a physical ­activity setting. Reprinted by permission from SHAPE America, National Physical Education Standards, 4th ed. (Human Kinetics, 2025). © 2024, SHAPE America, https://www.shapeamerica.org/. All rights reserved. Inspiration. My (Amanda Amtmanis) students were having outsized meltdowns over issues and were tattling way too often. It was getting in the way of learning. I spoke with our school psychologist to ask for advice. She introduced me to the concept of scaling problems. She also showed me some cards that she used to work with ­individual students or small groups to explicitly teach this concept. Generating Ideas. I asked her to make a copy of her cards for use in a physical education activity. Then I tried to think of how I might incorporate them into a movement activity. I thought about how I might get students to show their thinking in an active way. Incubation
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