Teaching Ideas...
So for the therapuetic riding program I work at I have to do the arena theme for a week. The indoor arena is about 100'x200'. Usually there is an obstacle course and 4 or 5 posters hung up for the Theme of the Week. I was assigned "Horses Come to America" as my theme. Any one have any ideas for some posters or activities to go along with this? There are lots of posters in storage at the program, but I like to make at least one or two new ones for the week I am running.
Here's what I was thinking:
-Poster with a diagram of a cross section of the inside of a boat so the kids can see where the horses would be.
-Poster(s) about Mustangs and other feral American horses (Abaco Barbs, Chicotague ponies, etc)
-Poster about when Prehistoric horses went extinct and when they were reintroduced.
-A fast walking race "across the Atlantic Ocean" with "doldrums" about 3/4 of the way down the arena. In other words, there would be a line of poles where they have to stop between the poles and count to five before continuing to the end of the ring.
-Maybe something with some pictures of horses they take from a barrel at one end and attach to a poster at the other end of the arena? I know take a picture of a horse from a poster/map of Spain/Europe and stick it to a poster/map of America. :)
Here's what I was thinking:
-Poster with a diagram of a cross section of the inside of a boat so the kids can see where the horses would be.
-Poster(s) about Mustangs and other feral American horses (Abaco Barbs, Chicotague ponies, etc)
-Poster about when Prehistoric horses went extinct and when they were reintroduced.
-A fast walking race "across the Atlantic Ocean" with "doldrums" about 3/4 of the way down the arena. In other words, there would be a line of poles where they have to stop between the poles and count to five before continuing to the end of the ring.
-Maybe something with some pictures of horses they take from a barrel at one end and attach to a poster at the other end of the arena? I know take a picture of a horse from a poster/map of Spain/Europe and stick it to a poster/map of America. :)