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Week 28: March 24-28, 1997
IA Name: Snake In The Grass
Grade Level: 3rd and Up
Equipment: Cones for general space
Directions:
Have one student lay on the floor in the middle of a reduced (i.e., half or a quarter of a basketball court) coned off playing area. He/she is designated the Snake. The remaining students place one hand on the snake. (Make sure the students don't stand behind one another while placing hand on student--they need a clear path to move to get away from snake. After ALL students are touching the snake the teacher calls out "Snakes
Alive".
Once this command is called out students
scatter about the general space trying to avoid the tag of
the snake. Once tagged the student gets on stomach and becomes a snake. They continue to try to tag others who are not snakes. The game ends when one student remains untagged.
Teaching Tips
Keep the general space small enough to enable the snakes
to tag classmates.
Limit speed of travel until students can move safely (i.e., without collisions) in general space.
Emphasize to the snake that working together is important to capture the "free movers."
Safety Tips
Make sure students have their own self space around the
snake and they are not behind other students at the start of the
game. Heads will bump if they don't have a clear path away from the snake.
Submitted by Doug Parks and John Pomeroy. Doug is an undergraduate student in the Health and PE Program at Virginia Tech. John teaches PE at Roland E. Cook and Fort Lewis Elementary Schools in Roanoke, VA. Thanks for contributing to PE Central!
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