1997-98 Instant Activity Archives

Week 13: Nov. 10-14, 1997

IA Name: Mirror/Matching Tag

Grade Level: K-5

Equipment: Cones to define the boundaries of the playing area.

Directions:

Pick two students to be taggers, while the rest of the class finds their own self space. On the teachers signal students will travel around the space avoiding the taggers using a teacher chosen locomotor pattern (i.e., walking, hopping, sliding, jumping). When tagged, a student must freeze and then form a body shape or balance. To get unfrozen another student must match/mirror the body shape or balance for 5 seconds (have students count out loud).

While counting, both students are safe. After counting to 5 the students return to fleeing from the taggers. After a couple of minutes change the taggers and the locomotor pattern of moving.

Submitted by Shawn Fortner and Ashley McKnight. Shawn teaches PE at Back Creek and Bent Mountain Elmentary Schools in Roanoke, VA. Ashley is an undergraduate PE major in the the Health and Physical Education Program at Virginia Tech. Thanks for contributing to PE Central!

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