Session Plan: Climbing (Numeracy)

Session plan total time: 3 hours

Pre session: Classroom Time: 45 minutesActivity Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Post session: Classroom Time:45 minutes

Time / Plans
20 minutes
Classroom / Show an image of yellow/ red /green face of the climbing wall, to help with visualisation of diagram. Teach what a scale is, so they understand drawing a scale drawing.Scale drawing ofthe yellow/red/ green face wall with teacher explaining each step and drawing it on the white board or use of Power Point to help.
10 minutes
Classroom / Teach what an area is and how to work this out. The area of part 1 a rectangle and part 2 a triangle of the wall. Thenworkout the total areas of the wall. Put a star on scale drawing to say this is my aim.
15 minutes
Classroom / Scale drawing of inside tower wall done independently. With minimal help from the teacher, workout areas of this wall and put a star to say this is my aim.
Explain that they will be timed from the bottom to the top of the slope wall.
In the briefing give the context. E.g. we need to display this information about our team members’ times visually so people can easily compare them, to do this we are going to draw a bar chart.
10 minutes / Get ready, Harness and helmets
25 minutes / 1st wall. Timed when doing the sloped wall, then names and times recorded. From bottom to the top of the sloped.
25 minutes / 2ndwall try and meet the aim set.
25 minutes / 3rdwall try and meet the aim set.
5 minutes / Remove safety kit and come back in.
30 minutes
Classroom / To record timings to work sheet, Teach to workout fastest, slowest, range and average of the team’s times. Draw bar chart: Give title, Label axes, and plot chart. Use 2 colours to represent above and below average, label the colours above and below average.
15 minutes
Classroom / Answer questions on the work sheet about meeting aims and feeling after activity.
Review their goal setting and consider SMART target setting, were their goals specific, measurable, achievable, resourced and time specific.

Resources for session

Classroom / Activity
Climbing worksheets, Rulers, Pencils, and Calculators. Photos of climbing wall, laminated on the tables. Power point to help group if needed. / Climbing, 3 walls. Inside tower, near side (yellow/red/green side) sloped side (red/blue side), stopwatches, Clip boards and time recording sheets.

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