Life Skills:

• Thinking & Reasoning
• Communication
• Social & Civic Responsibility

Group Size:
Individual

Summary:
Students gain opportunities to dodge, evade and move in general space without touching others.

Materials:
Flag belts

Student Prior Knowledge:
Moving safely in confined areas and how to dodge and evade.

Intended Learning Outcomes:
Students will demonstrate the ability to move amongst others safely. Students will gain practice in dodging and evading.

Instructional Procedures:

• Define the boundaries for the students.
• Explain that each student must move within this space while trying to pull the other students' flags off their belt.
• If a student's flag is pulled off, they must garner their flags and move outside of the boundaries to perform an exercise, e.g. 10 push-ups or 5 jumping jacks.
• After the exercise is completed, students must reattach their flags to their belt and re-enter the activity.

Strategies For Diverse Learners:

• You may have the students walk, jog, hop, etc. and complete this activity.
• The students can try to pull the flags with their left hand only or right hand only etc.

Author:
TIMOTHY BEST

Created Date :
Jun 12 2003 10:58 AM