Kinesthetic

The Kinesthetic Intelligence is the ability to control bodily motions and the capacity of handle objects.

In our P.E class, in order to incorporte The Twelve Labors of  Hercules with Gardener´s"kinesthetic Intelligence", our 1st level ESO students will desing and demostrate games representative of the 12 labors.

Our classes have been devided into 12 groups of 5 students each. The task? Each group must create a game o sport that embodies and recreates the specific myth that they are given. Considering the intensity os the labors and the fantastical nature of animals that Hercules faces, this task is also a time for our kids´creativity shine-

Our students will receive teo separated class periods to fully develop their games.

DAY 1

- Group of 5 and each group will be given one of the labors (each team will have a sheet with its labor, where they have to write de name on the team members). 

They will have to think how to recreate the labor through a game (base on the labor).

DAY 2

They will perform the game in front of the class (We will take pictures).

They have to be dress up. 

They will have to show us their sheet with their labor before start the performance.

Each team will evaluate the other teams (they will be given a coevaluation form) I will have this mark into consideration in the final mark of the activity.

The mark will be global for the whole team.

Finally, the students will vote to decide which game they thought was the best ans which one they have the most desire to play. We can´t wait to see what they come up with! 

AND FINALLY...... THE GAMES!!!   

2016/2017

One: Kill the Nemean Lion

The game consist in kick the lion with a ball.

There are 2 teams.

-First you have to pass the ball to all the members of your team.

-Secondly you and your group has to try to kick the lion.

If the lion takes the ball and kick you you are "infected"..

The group that in the time of 5 minutes have more people that is not infected wins the rond

There are 3 rounds

Lions: 6 (3 per team)

Teams: 2

Students 1ºB: Diego Ollero, Javier Ros, Desirée Terreros, Gimena Casado and Sergio García

Two: Kill the Lernean Hydra

Rules: 9 people are the hydra heads. These people must stand in two horizontal lines, and they can move along these lines without getting in front or behind anybody, or changing places. They all have to pick a post-it of one of the following colours: yellow, green or orange. Nobody must know another person'scolour.

The rest of the people are Hercules, but only 9 play (for now). The rest stay in the bench. The Herculeses form a vertical line in front of the Hydras and take turns to throw a ball to one of them. They have 3 chances (one for each ball) Before every throw they have to shout the name of the person they are aiming at.

If they hit another person, it doesn't count. 
The objective of the Herculeses is to kill all the Hydras. For doing that, they have to hit them with the ball of the colour of the post-it the Hydra chose at the beggining  (Hercules doesn't know which one it is) (We call this the Vulnerable Colour) and that he has kept and hidden. If a Hercules hits the Hydra with another colour than the Vulnerable one, Hercules has to join the Hydra,(by holding it's hand, like a second head has grown from the same neck)(They become one Hydra and they both will die at the same time) which will show him it's post-it. If the Hydra doesn't have the post-it, it can't prove he wasn't killed, and will be considered dead. When a Hydra dies, it sits down in the opposite side than the Reserve Herculeses. The game ends when all the Hydras are dead.

Students 1ºB: Irene González, Jimena Cuéllar, Mario Moles, Iker Flores and Lucía Sancho.

Three: Capture the Cerynian Hind

There are two bulls ,    or    (CERYNIAN HINDS).

There are three Hercules.

The Hercule's objectuve is to kill the bulls by taking their tails out  or if the bulls catch you, you must steal them the sack of wheat.

The bulls objective is to kill Hercules by touching him with his horns. He must also take the sack of wheat and carry it to the base line.

Students 1ºB: Santiago, Raúl, Ángel, Alejandro, David y Jorge.

Four: Capture the Erymanthian Boar

The labor treats of an American Race. 

Consists of running out for the diferents obstacles.

1º. Spin 10 times around yourself.

2º.Sprint two times (sort)

3º.Jump three banks

4º.Zig-Zag around de hoops

5º.Shoot down three cones

6º.Climb two times the (espalderas)

7º.Fight of swords the two first people that climb the (espalderas)If the oponent touch you two times your body, you must play tag with Angel and if you catch Angel you will win the game.

Students 1ºB: Paula, Jimmy, Ferran, Angel, Ivan.

Five: Clean the Augean Stables

The game consist of run to the other side and take a poop and run to the starting point without, Augeas slaves hit you with a ball.

When you take the poop you have to put it on the basket of the other team.

Rules:

-You can’t touch the other opponent when you are running.

-You can pass through the other court.

-If Augeas slaves hits you, you have to leave the poop and go to the starting point and start over

Students 1ºB: Eloy Madrid, Mario Retana, Jorge Pastor, Lydia Llano and Beatriz Sanz.

Six: Birds Capture the Cretan Bull

The game:

1º. All the players are going to be something; 1 Hercules, 1 Bull, 1 King and Citizens. But enyone can't know ho is the bull except the bull.        

2º. The players have to go to theyr positions; Hercules to 3,Bull and Citizens to 2 and King to 4. Hercules has two attempts to guess who the bull is and throw the ball to him or her.

3º. If Hecules guess who is the bull he and the king win, if not the king has to go in acction. He has to put a scarf or something similar in the butt.

4ºa.If Hercules win the game ends.                 4ºb. If Hercules don't win, the bull has to say "I am the bull" and the citizens have to go to place 5, now the king has to run through the court to place 1, but the bull have to try to cach the scarf of him. If the bull caught it the bull wins, but if the king go to place 1 with out been touch, Hercules and the King win.

RULES:

- Any one can go out of his court.

- If when hercules is throwing the ball he accidentally leaves his field counts as a failed attempt.

- When hercules throws the ball no one can move.

- When the bull and the king are running the bull can only take the scarf. No physical contact.

-THE BULL CAN'T TELL ENYONE THAT HE IS THE BULL.

Students 1ºA: Eduardo, Jóse Miguel, Adriana, Sofía and Madeline.

Seven: Kill the Stymphalian

In the game Hercules throw a ball, and have to try to hit a person with that ball. When Hercules hit one person, that person have to touch the  black statue, that is going to be running to safe you. Each bird has two lifes.

-Hercules: Person that throw.

-Birds: The persons that we have to hit.

-Arrows: Ball

-Black atatue: To safe

Students 1ºB: Claudia Valero, Aroa, Naim, Hugo y Laura.

Eight: Capture the Horses of Diomedes

1Hercules

1Diomedes  

+2Horses   

One cone for each horse

To win...

Hercules has to touch Diomedes

Diomedes has to touch all the horses

The horses have to touch all the cones and lay them down

Rules

If you push you have to wait 3 seconds

If you die you sit in a bench

Hercules and Diomedes have to run with 1 leg

The horses and Diomedes have 2 lives

The horses have a house where they can stay 5 seconds to rest.

Students 1ºA:Adrián, Marco, Mireia and Lucía Ciria

Nine: Take the Girdle of the Amazon Queen Hippolyte

MATERIALS:

Two balls and a belt.

RULES:

There are two teamsin each team there is one Hercules in each team. There is also a queen that carries a bel ton the bottom. Each Hercules has to rob the belt during the the other members of the group distract the queen because she does not know who is Hercules. The queen carries two balls and every minute she has to shout: THE QUEEN IS COMING!!!!!. In that moment the people have to run because if they get hitted by the ball they have two sit down. If the queen trowh the ball and it reaches to one person that is sitted down he or she can continue playing. But when the queen trowhs the ball hits the Hercules of one team they lose, so that mean that the other team wins.

The first Hercules to take the belt wins.

Students 1ºA: Lucia Diaz, Pelayo Gomez, Helena Sanchez, Ruben Serrano and Diego Uria

Ten: Capture the Cattle of Geryon

There are 2 teams.
-1st team a twoheaded dog and a monster of three bodies.
-In the 2nd team there are 5 persons.
-On the back of the 1st team there is the cattle ( 4 balls).
-On the side of the court the underworld.
-If the dog touches you, you go to the underworld and also if the moster throws you a ball and touches you.
-If you are in the underworld, to "relive" a person of your team has to touch your hand.
-If all the 2nd team is in the underworld, the 1st wins.
-If the 2nd team catches all the balls the 1st team loses.

Persons:
-The monster is 3 persons together.
-The dog is 2 persons together.
-And 5 persons on the 2nd team.

Students 1ºA: Mario Miralles, Gonzalo Sánchez, Alejandra Pérez, Sergio Viñas y Margaux Riche.

Eleven: Take the Golden Apples of the Hesperides

 -There will be one (or more) person in a line that has to catch the attacker . If it catches you, you have to go back. for this part you only have one minute and a half, you can't be waiting for much more than that. 

   -When passed that proof, you have to score a free thrown, but you only have 2 opportunities. If you don´t score in 2 shots you have to restart.

   -After that, there will be a defender that you have to avoid. the defender will be defending a golden apple. If he catches you you DON'T have to restart, you will change positions and you will defend the apple and he will attack. If the defender don't catches you, you can pick the golden apple and you've win.

Students 1ºA: Clara Velasco, Daniel Hernandez, Karen Gacía, Guillermo Cea and Rubén Matey.

Twelve: Capture Cerberus

1.-You cannot be in the house more than 5 seconds.

2.-If you want to go out of the house you might do it with at list another dog (if you are two dogs) if not three dogs.

3.-Hercules might try to catch the three dogs

4.-The guard that is in the middle line has to try to kick with the ball to the dogs.

5.-If a dog is catched in the underworld it goes back to his house and the other two dogs might continue.

6.-If they pass together the line that separate the underworld of MONT OLIMPUS they can separate to save the dogs that are in the jale, of it is not annyone in the jail, all dogs have to came back to the UNDERWORLD.

7.-If Hercules catch any dog, he might change position with the guard.

8.-If a dog is catched in the Mont Olympus, the dog has to go to the dog´s jail until someone of his time

9.-The guard can only move through the line until hercules catch a dog.

Students 1ºA: Patricia Puerto, María Martínez, Jacobo Gómez, Jacqueline Sánchez, Diego Latorre.

2016/2017

We had a really great times creating our own games based on Hercules' Labors. Now, it's time to decide who did it the best!
Each group had a chance to demonstrate their game to the rest of the class and now they will vote to their favorite.
ATTENTION STUDENTS!

In order to vote for your favorite game (you cannot vote for your own labor), you need to comment on this post in this exact format:

YOUR labor-

2 points for labor-

1 point for labor-

for example:

My labor- 3 (Capture the Cerynian Hind)

2 points for labor- 1 (Kill the Nemean Lion)

1 point for labor-  2 (Kill the Lernean Hydra)

Once again, please comment with this exact  format so that we can easily count the results.

Thanks for all your great work on these games!

Ready, Set, VOTE! 

WINNERS

Ans finally the winner is........ we have a tie !!!
The winners are labour nº4 and 5.

NICE WORK GUYS !!!