When winter hits, many Physical Education classes are relegated to the indoors. The library’s five new HotSpots kits provide an easy way to keep gym activities varied and interesting, helping to keep students engaged indoors during these long, cold months.
Each HotSpots kit comes complete with several HotSpots — heavy-duty, round pieces of plastic printed with exercise instructions — as well as an activity guide. The Jump Rope, Core, Cardio, and Hoops kits contain twelve HotSpots each, while the Basketball kit contains three sets of eight HotSpots.
The HotSpots help students to develop fundamental movement skills. Simple written instructions describe how to safely and correctly perform each activity, and large illustrations provide a visual demonstration of proper posture and joint movement. The activity guides contain information about the activities featured in each kit, safety considerations, equipment requirements, how to distribute the HotSpots throughout the activity space, and suggestions about how the kit might be incorporated into a complete lesson plan.
The HotSpots: Cardio kit is now on display on the Ground Floor coffee table (adjacent to the Service Desk), while the other four HotSpots kits can be found in the Curriculum Resources (CR) collection on the library’s 3rd floor. You can also click on the following links to view larger images of the kits in the OISE Library K-12 Manipulatives Database: Jump Rope, Core, Cardio, Hoops, and Basketball.