HUMAN LADDER Equipment: one dowel rod for every 2 students. Dowel rods should be approximately 18 long and * -1 in diameter.
Concept: Cooperation
Objective: One will attempt to walk across the ladder held by their teammates
Task: Students should find a partner. Have each partner group hold a dowel rod between them at about waist high level. Each partner group should face each other
and stand shoulder to shoulder with another partner group. You can split the class up into small partner groups (3-5) or group the entire class together. The formation will appear as a ladder with students being the rails, and the dowel rods being the rungs. One student will then attempt to walk across the ladder. The walker should be instructed not to stay on any one rung for a long amount of time, but the walker also should not run. One variation on this is to have the pairs at the beginning of the ladder move to the end of the ladder as soon as their rung has been walked. This will make a never-ending ladder. Use mats and spotters.
