Food
tag - Outcome B (4-6)-1
Prior
to this game, you may wish to discuss the importance of eating breakfast
or lunch as a means of fueling your body. One analogy may be equating
an empty stomach to an empty fuel tank in a car. Just as fuel comes
in various grades, so does food, and "high octane" foods are those
that provide quality nutrition.
Here is a variation on
a progressive tag game that helps students learn a bit about proper
nutrition while still increasing their endurance.
"It was a bright and
sunny day as the Energizers (Choose four students to represent the
food groups) head out to try and stop the over-abundance of Junk
Food and poor eating habits in the world."
Have
the students identify one healthy food from each of the four food
groups (Fruits and Vegetables, Dairy, Grains, Meat and Alternates).
"The Energizers are powered by high energy because they eat nutritiously
(give them each a bean bag); they will try to change all
of the Junk food (the rest of the class) one by one into
frozen Veggies.
The Junk Food becomes
Frozen Veggies when tagged and can only become unfrozen when two
other Junk Foods join forces (joining hands around the Veggies)
and shouting ???. (Let the students decide what will be shouted
to free the Frozen Veggies and turn them back into Junk Food).
The unfrozen Veggies
are then free to join the other Junk Food. Energizers cannot tag
Junk Food while they are trying to free Veggies, and must give them
3 seconds before they can be tagged again.
Based
on the skills and abilities of your students, continue adding the
following variations to the game. Once the students have caught
on, continue the story:
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