Teachers have new take on hopscotch
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HOPSCOTCH was a popular game in China from the 1950s to the 1980s. Now, three physical education teachers in Jiading are reviving the game.
Xu Yanxian, one of the teachers, had planned to have an open class with the theme of “happy jumping” last year.
Originally she wanted to adopt traditional hopscotch in the class. However, she also hoped to add something new. So she asked two of her colleagues Zheng Shuangquan and Zhang Xiao, also from Jiading No. 2 High School, for help as all of them belonged to a sports studio in Jiading District.
After rounds of brainstorming on teaching methods, content and tasks, Zheng suggested to invent a new game instrument. The suggestion received unanimous approval among the three teachers.
After careful observation, Zheng found two disadvantages of hopscotch: the game used to be on a fixed site with a fixed shape.
Flexible design
They decided to make some squares that could be placed anywhere with flexible combination options.
They drew sketches and made the instruments with rain cloth and plastic-coated steel plate on an old sewing machine by themselves.
Each check is a square with each side 50cm long. And an instrument is made of one, two or three squares. The squares can be combined into different shapes by using all four sides.
Jiading No. 2 High School has long been a high school with strong PE tradition. Zheng and Zhang have invented training machines for basketball and badminton and have applied for patents.
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