7/31/2023 0 Comments Tag games for elementary p eThroughout my 19 years of teaching Physical Education, I have played many different sports and activities with scooter boards. Play until each student gets a turn to be the driver, collector, and counter.Ĭheck out Gopher’s Scoot-N-Scoop to get a full equipment set for your school! They also have a video demo of how to play. Have the third player count the objects as they are being collected. At the signal, the driver pushes and pulls the hippo out to the center to collect as many objects (marbles) as he/she can using a bucket until all the objects are gone or the predetermined time is up. The second player is the driver and holds both feet of the scooter board player (hippo). How to Play: One student lies on his/her belly on the scooter board. Place balls across or in the middle of the gym. Each group should get a scooter board and a net. Place these groups on the baselines of your gymnasium. Set Up: Divide your class into groups of three. If your battleships cone gets knocked over or down your battleship then switches drivers (captains). The captain then drives the battleship around the gym collecting cannon balls for their battleship to use for throwing. Each battleship places a cone on top of their ship. Scatter cannonballs ( coated-foam balls) throughout the gymnasium. The last challenge is to play a game called Battleship. This can be used with the game Pirates also. The third challenge is to have two students sit on top with their feet up while another student drives the boat around the gym without crashing. Play for a predetermined amount of time and see how much treasure each pirate ship can collect. Each boat can only collect one piece of treasure at a time. All of the students on their boats help collect treasure from the center of the gym ( yarn balls) by driving their boat using their feet. The second challenge is to play a game called Pirates. The first challenge is to drive the boat around the gym without crashing into the walls or other boats. How to Play: To make mats move, the students put two scooter boards under their mat and sit on it like they would a chair. I have seven and put between 4 or 5 students on each boat. Set Up: How many boats you play with depends on how many gymnastic folding mats you have. This scooter activity is great for teamwork and cooperation. Check out Justin Wiese’s class performing this activity in this video. Remember the amount of taggers you have depends on the size of your class. Play for a few minutes and change the spaghetti and meatball taggers. If tagged, students exit the game and do an exercise 5 to 10 times and come back in. The meatballs are being rolled by students around the gymnasium. How to Play: The spaghetti is carried by some of the students while on their scooter. This activity is a lot like Jellyfish Tag, but instead of the chasers being jellyfish (parachutes), they are now noodles (the spaghetti) and small OMNIKIN balls (or any large ball) are the meatballs. This game is an adaptation of an activity in The Great Games Handbook. See a video demo by Chris Custer’s class here. To re-enter the game, the student does a designated number of a certain exercise (the exercise and repetitions are totally up to you). If they are caught, they pick up their scooter and exit the game. How to Play: The students on the scooters avoid being caught by the jellyfish. Based on your class size, create a few groups of 4 students and have them hold a parachute. Set Up: As students enter the gym, hand a scooter to about two-thirds of the class. What makes this scooter game awesome is that you can use it for any grade level. This is an awesome PE game that you can use as an instant activity or as the main activity for the day. Below are 6 scooter games that will engage and excite your students! 1. A lot of times this is because of a lack of ideas for how to use them. Not every teacher feels comfortable using or teaching with them. However, like the parachute, the scooter can be a difficult piece of equipment to manage in a class. Sometimes to the point where I have them use breathing techniques to calm down. Every time I say we’re playing a scooter game, my students go crazy. The only other piece of equipment that even comes close to that same level of excitement is scooters. Best day ever, right? For kids, the excitement of the parachute is like having your birthday and Christmas on the same day. Do you remember wondering what you were going to do for the day as you entered the gymnasium? Then, image you entered the gym and saw a parachute laying out on the gym floor. Let’s all think back to when we had Physical Education in elementary school.
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