In response to teacher-posed problems, small groups of students devise their own solutions within the limitations of their skill, fitness, rules of the game, and problem solving abilities. In the opening section of the lesson, pairs of students explore the implications of situations set up by the teacher. The students lose the chance to imagine their own situations, explain the problems which could occur, and devise possible strategies. By presenting the students with the two variables to be explored, this lesson misses a key step that which provides the opportunity for students to discover the factors that they consider are important in the game outcome. From this point, small groups could design and try out strategies to either overcome or maximize these factors.
Students also pair up and then practice against other pairs.
Discussion then follows in those small groups when students themselves identify and justify key factors which influence win-lose situations. S-31 Students devise and participate in practice situations for strategies which either overcome or maximize those variables. This practice is followed by discussion in which the students assess the strategies' effectiveness. When rule violations occur, in particular dangerous play, the teacher could direct the discussion to students' assessing the consequences of such behavior. Students have the opportunity to explain the specific situations in which they identified key variables.