Activity
Cricket -Bowling And Batting
Chapter:
Concept:
Class: Class 6
Skill: Specialised Sports Coaching
Sports: Cricket
Technique: Batting
Cricket -Bowling And Batting
Learning Outcomes
- Identify the joints used in different activities while playing
- Explain the ball and socket joint and its importance in various activities
- Suggest ways to improve the strength of joints
- Differentiate between Ball and socket joint and pivotal joint
- Appreciate the working mechanism of Hinge joint
- Reason out why the bones in the face are immovable
- Identify the movable joint in face
Description Of Activity
How to Play
Joints in the body can be taught through play
| S. No | Name of activity | Method of performing activity | Sports integrated |
| 1 | Cricket game | Students are divided into 11 fielders, 2 umpire and 2 batsman. They can play cricket and others to observe. When a student is bowling a ball, he uses ball and socket joint to rotate the arm. While batting he uses, shoulder bones, finger bones and elbow joint | Bowling a ball and batting |
| 2 | Hip( Ball and socket joint), knee( Hinge joint) and ankle joint( Hinged synovial joint) | Students are asked to assemble in the ground. A running race of 100 m can be conducted. Others can also observe. They use hip joint, knee joint and ankle joint to run
| Running in the ground |
| 3 | Pivotal joint ( neck) | 40 students are asked to sit on the yoga mat or on the floor and they are asked to move their head towards left, right, backward, forward and neck rotation clockwise and anticlockwise. Students can identify the type of joint in their neck
| Sukhasana neck rotation |
| 4. | Fixed joint | All students are taken to the ground and lemon and spoon game could be conducted. Students understand that, lemon kept in a spoon can be held only by using mouth where, lower jaw bone has movable joint, whereas other joints in the head are immovable
| Lemon and spoon game |
| 5 | Hinge joint | Students are asked to lift suitable weight. The Joint used for lifting weight is Hinge joint at elbows | Weight lifting |
| 6 | Gliding joint | Hockey sticks and ball can be given to students and students can be encouraged to play. While playing they can observe that the joints in the wrist and while running for the ball, joints in the ankle are used. When students are dribbling the ball in hockey by moving the hockey stick over and back, gliding joint can be explained.
| Hockey |
Variations
Cricket game, Hockey game, Lemon and spoon game, Running, jogging are used to explain the concepts
Coaching Tips
Children are given practice of cricket, hockey, running, yoga, lemon and spoon game and the types of bones and joints used in different activities are elicited from them only which make the learning fruitful
Equipment/Material Required
Cricket ball, bat, weight, Hockey stick and ball, lemon and spoon. All activities can be conducted in ground