Sport Stacking

For Lab D I wanted to teach a sport that I knew most of my students would not be familiar with. I decided to teach the sport of competitive cup stacking. I was introduced to the sport last Christmas when my mother or “Santa” gave me my very own set of speed stacking cups as a Christmas gift. That night during our families Christmas party I brought the cups out to try with my family. Before I knew it my family was having blast dueling it out on my dining room table, competing to see who could stack and un-stack the cups in the fastest time. Since last Christmas I seemed to forget how much fun we all had speed stacking. It was brought to my attention again when a fellow teacher, Mark Mayo and I were brain storming for ideas that we could teach for Lab D. He mentioned speed stacking and I instantly fell in love with the idea of teaching it to my students. I wanted to do something different that the students would enjoy learning. When I though back to how much fun my family had speed stacking, I knew it would be a big hit with my students. My only concern was that I would not have enough sets of cups for all 19 students in the class. When I informed Dr. Yang about my worries he informed me that Dr. Davis had a sport pack which was giving to him from the leader in sport stacking, called Speed Stacking. Dr. Davis was more than happy to loan them to me for my lesson. This kit was a life saver. The kit contained 300 cups, which was enough so that each student to have their very own set of 12 cups. During the lesson, I started out with a warm-up called slaps. This was to get the classes hands warmed up and ready to speed stack. Next, I showed the class a video of last years WSSA World Championships. The students responded well to the video and seemed eager to learn it themselves.
During the video we ran into a little problem when Joe Brown, a student in the class acted up and decided that he was not as eager to learn the sport as everyone else in the class. He proceeded to kick over the stacks of cups that I had set aside for the class. He was also verbalizing his displeasures with the lesson with curse words. His behavior was unacceptable and I was forced to sit him out for the remainder of the class. After I handled the episode with Joseph I proceed with the lesson. I taught the class how to stack a three and six pyramid. The class did very well. Some students were even able to go well beyond my expectations and challenged themselves by stacking the cups upside down and with their eyes closed. This let me know the class was ready we moved on to the next activity. The next activity was a speed stacking fitness relay race. I split the class into five groups of three or four students. From there, the class performed speed stacking relay races which were designed to incorporate fitness moves while speed stacking. The students had to perform a fitness move such as jumping jacks before stacking the cups and then running back and to tag the next partner in line. Overall, I felt the class went well but if I were to do it over I would change a few things. I would substitute relay races with speed stacking stations. Even though the relays were a big hit with the students I felt that there was too much standing around. Stations would be a good alternative to get the whole class moving all at once.
Here is my Sport Stacking Lesson Time Coding Form

Here is my Speed Stacking Packet

Here is my speed stacking transcript

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