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Modifying Activities

This guide provides essential strategies for modifying physical activities to ensure equitable participation. Adaptations may include altering task demands, such as using visual instead of auditory cues, lowering equipment heights, and modifying game rules to foster cooperation. It emphasizes the importance of adjusting various aspects of activities, from rules and equipment to teaching styles and scoring methods. By employing task analysis, educators can identify necessary modifications that cater to diverse student needs, ultimately promoting successful involvement and learning for all participants.

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Modifying Activities

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  1. Modifying Activities

  2. Modifying Activities • Modifications should enable all to participate: • Change task demands for example • visual instead of auditory cues • limit running demands • lower the basketball hoop height • Change rules (allow double dribbles, promote cooperation instead of competition) • Use an assistive device (walkers, crutches, wheelchairs, peer buddy)

  3. What to modify? • REMEMBER, you may modify ANY portion of an activity including rules, equipment, scoring, groupings, pace, etc to promote student success and learning.

  4. What to Modify - Examples • Rules • Affective environment • Amount of time • Equipment used • Partner (group) work/size • Size of objects • Teaching style: command, practice, self-selection • Provide a list of tasks to complete (PSI) • Position of student for ease of feedback and monitoring

  5. What to Modify - Examples • Distance • Speed (walk, power walk, jog, run) – both offensive and defensive • Scoring (how score, point value, etc) • Passing (can be intercepted?) • Offensive/defensive strategies and points for use • Size of playing area • Number of passes or touches • Substitutes for players

  6. What to Modify - Examples • How start each game? • Accuracy required • Length of striking implement • Trajectory of ball (rolling, bouncing, in air) • Zone around student (how close can other students get?) • Size of goal • Many other examples

  7. Developmental Task Analysis • One of the best ways to examine how you can modify a task is to perform a task analysis. • Developmental task analysis outlines all of the task and environmental factors that influence the performance of students in the general movement categories (e.g., throw, strike, jump). • Under each of these factors, modifications are given, from the simplest to the most difficult. • Internet – great place to start • http://edweb6.educ.msu.edu/kin866/default.htm

  8. Task Analysis-Throwing

  9. A Specific Task Analysis (Striking)

  10. Helpful Document • Modifications for specific activities

  11. Group Practice • Select activities from list • Create a developmental task analysis • Example from badminton • Group work form

  12. Resource Websites • http://www.specialolympics.org/Special+Olympics+Public+Website/English/Coach/Coaching_Guides/default.htm • http://www.twu.edu/inspire/modifications.htm • http://www.pecentral.org/adapted/adaptedactivities.html • Many others via google

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