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Name of Activity: Schools of Fish

Prerequisites: Knowledge of the locomotor movements (walking, skipping, hopping, jumping, leaping, galloping, sliding, etc.)

Suggested Grade Level: K-2

Description of Idea

Students will secretly pick a locomotor movement that they will do. On the teacher's cue, students will start moving around the space in all directions while observing which locomotor movement their peers are using. When they see others doing the same movement that they are doing, they will join together to form their "school of fish" that will move together. The object of the game is to get all students doing the same locomotor movements to be moving together like a school of fish. At this point, the game starts over.

Variations:

-You may time the students in order to see if they can beat their previous time.

-You may assign the students a locomotor movement (give them a colored "marker" to conceal with each color representing a movement)

Assessment Ideas:

Checklist noting satisfactory performance of locomotor movements.

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Submitted by Jessica Prickitt who teaches at Linden School in Malden, MA. Thanks for contributing to PE Central! Posted on PEC: 12/9/2011. Viewed 12098 times since 11/3/2011.

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tasty
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Is the entire class picking a movement that is a secret from the teacher or is there one student who does the movement that everyone then follows?

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