Front/Back/Middle

>>A quick Warm up or review activity.

1. Have the students stand in the center of the play area.
2. Next choose 2 students to hold one sign each.
3. The first sign simply says"front of the body".
4. The other sign says "Back of the body".
5. The object is to move to the side of the room with the 
sign which matches the location of a given muscle.
6. The teacher begins by calling out a muscle name.
7. The students move quickly to either the "front" sign
or the side wher the "back" sign is located. 
8. They choose based on the location of the given muscle name.
9. For example: quadriceps would be a "front of body" muscle.
10.Repeat several rounds, allow the students to give the names.
11.On occassion you may not need to move. 
12.With each muscle name given the students have three choices, 
"front", "middle" or "back".



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