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Heart
Attack Tag -
Outcome B(4-6)
- 2
Discuss with students the causes
of heart attacks. Inactivity or sedentary living is now recognized as
the fourth major risk of heart disease, following smoking, high blood
pressure (hypertension) and elevated cholesterol.
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After this discussion, tell students the purpose of this tag game. The taggers (identified as those holding a piece of paper) tag players who stop and have a heart attack. Demonstrate the action of a heart attack. (small jumps up and down, with arms extended in front of the body). Talk to the students about CPR and why to give CPR to a heart attack victim. Demonstrate the action of CPR (three jumping jacks performed in front of the heart attack victim). Give two or three students in the class a piece of paper: they will be the heart attack givers. The heart attack givers chase and tag the rest of the class. The students who are not tagged are to give CPR in front of a heart attack victim (tagged student) rescuing those tagged and bringing them back into the game. |
While CPR is being performed the heart attack victim and the CPR giver are immune to further heart attacks (they can not be tagged for three seconds after CPR is successfully performed).
After three heart attacks, the student is fatally wounded and goes to any of the taggers. The tagger tears their piece of paper in half and gives it to the "fatally wounded" student, so they too can give heart attacks. Play until everyone has a piece of paper (has had three heart attacks).
