{"id":1106,"date":"2015-09-22T19:34:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T02:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpe\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2015-09-22T19:34:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T02:34:47","slug":"chuck-the-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpe\/2015\/09\/22\/chuck-the-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck the chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i really liked the chuck the chicken game. I loved the use of unusual paraphernalia. The elements of baseball are also incorporated such that they are no longer recognizable as such. As a result, the activity came off as over the top.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious to know whether this particular effect can easily be produced in other activities.<\/p>\n<p>The value of such activities cannot be understated. they give the teacher the opportunity to introduce the rules of a game without having to set up or get into the more complicated details.<\/p>\n<p>An activity such as chuck the chicken can be used as a warm up as well. Even if what follows is not baseball practice, so long as you intend to teach baseball at a later date, using chuck the chicken as a warm up can help begin to prepare the students early on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i really liked the chuck the chicken game. I loved the use of unusual paraphernalia. The elements of baseball are also incorporated such that they are no longer recognizable as such. As a result, the activity came off as over the top. I&#8217;m curious to know whether this particular effect can easily be produced in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpe\/2015\/09\/22\/chuck-the-chicken\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chuck the chicken<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36378,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570935],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cite-cohort"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}