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Week 31: April 21-25, 1997
IA Name: Team Leap Frog
Grade Level: 6th and Up
Equipment: A large outdoor grassy playing area, cones
Directions:
Split the class in half by handing every other
person in class a pinnie of the same color (see our forming groups section for other ways of forming teams). Using half of a soccer field (or another large open field space) one team gets on one end of the field and the other team on the other end.
On the teachers signal give one team 45-60 seconds to see
how many people on the other team they can tag and have squatting at the end of the time. When someone is tagged they must squat down at a low level. The only problem for the tagging team is that members of the other team may jump or leap over squatting teammates and that unfreezes those people so they are up and running again.
After 45 seconds, switch chasing and fleeing teams.
Safety Tips
Stress to students that when squatting they are not to raise up while other kids are moving over them.
Make sure the field space is large enough
to give fleeing persons room to run and find people on their team to jump over. A small area defeats the purpose.
Submitted by Ken Bell who is a doctoral student in the Health and PE Program at Virginia Tech. Thanks for contributing to PE Central!
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