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Objective: Students will practice and improve bouncing for accuracy, spatial awareness, defensive strategy, and cardiovascular endurance in the high- energy game of A Drop in the Bucket. -
Objective: A strategy-based game where teamwork, decisiveness, and communication skills are critical to win it ALL or walk away with NOTHING (accept having fun with your friends and getting active)! -
Objective: To reinforce spatial awareness, fleeing and dodging, throwing for accuracy, and hula hoop manipulatives in the wacky, action-packed game of Hooper’s Hulas. -
Objective: This game improves bowling for accuracy while placing students in nonstop defensive situations. -
Objective: This is a fast-paced aerobic game that focuses on the movement competencies of dodging and fleeing. -
Objective: to provide students various ways to develop and improve aim and accuracy while learning to manipulate various throwing objects. -
From my book PE2theMax II: Stepping up the “Game” in Physical Education, the game of Action Packed provides a great way to introduce and/or integrate multiple fitness and social activities that will allow students to demonstrate competency in fitness skills, in the attempts to also enhance persistence, team- work, and camaraderie. -
From my book PE2theMax II: Stepping up the “Game” in Physical Education, in the game of Going Cuckoo, students must cooperatively and quickly work together to get all of the misplaced Cuckoo eggs safely to their mother’s nest, while reinforcing throwing, catching, hand-eye coordination, and cardiovascular fitness. Scenario: There are two common kinds of cuckoos in North America, the blue-billed cuckoo and the red-billed cuckoo. Bird watchers have observed and learned that cuckoos do not like to care for their young. The sad truth is that cuckoos actually lay their eggs in another bird’s nest and leave them to be hatched and cared for by another bird. To avoid the risk of extinc- tion, a group of bird watchers have decided to team up and find the misplaced cuckoo eggs and safely transfer all the fragile eggs to their natural mother’s nest. -
Objective: Adapted from the game In the Zone (Hughes, J. 2002. No Standing Around in My Gym. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics), Catch Me if You Can emphasizes teamwork and strategy through a high-energy passing and catching manipulative game. -
OBJECTIVE: EcSTATIC Bowling is the advanced and more competitive version from the original game of EcSTATIC. Teams will race to complete the cooperative bowling and static balance challenges. AND as a bonus, holding static poses is great for building core strength! -
Objective: Match Madness is a high energy, nonstop fitness game. The key to success in this game is to find multiple hidden card matches. Note: “What lies Beneath?” is a great game to play with Grades 3 through 8 in conjunction with Match Madness due to similarities in game set up. -
OBJECTIVE: Students will play various noodle games to improve accuracy, spatial awareness, and creativity while exploring ways to manipulate various sized foam noodles. -
This zany, action-packed game reinforces spatial awareness, hula-hoop manipulation, and bowling for accuracy. There are three excellent versions of Bowl-a-Hula. -
Watch heads turn with a look saying “what did you say?” when you explain this unique, exhilarating, heart-pounding game that will blow their minds. -
In Yeah Baby! students learn how to strategically place items to avoid losing them to the other team, work on finesse, and improve throwing for accuracy. -
Objective: This is a game where pandemonium, throwing and bowling for accuracy, and teamwork can actually coexist. -
Objective: Each 3-player team will incorporate teamwork, communication, and improve throwing, catching, and visual tracking skills, while learning how to share three different positions by trading places each time a point is earn. -
Objective: The game of Scallywag challenges each student’s throwing accuracy and offensive and defensive strategy, while encouraging spatial awareness. -
Gee Whiz is a rock, paper, and scissors-like game that encourages students to implement strategy, honesty, fairness, and honorable sporting behavior, while constantly making laugh out loud, goofy faces and gestures. -
Students will practice and improve kicking and soccer-style dribbling, defensive and offensive strategy, and cardiovascular endurance in the throwback, Pac Man-like game of Gobble, Gobble.
