Elementary PE Brainbooster

PE/Playworks Brain Booster Lesson 5: 3rd-5th

Theme

Intro to PE and Recess

Games and Activities

Watch Your Back Tag and Review Core Game

I can… 3rd: Be responsible while playing independently for long periods of time and apply strategies in fleeing activities. 4th: Apply concepts of speed, endurance and pacing and apply simple strategies in chasing and fleeing activities. 5th: Understand pace for highest performance and use spatial concepts with locomotor movements.

Materials/ Space Needed

Home Base (Baseline, Sideline or Circle with paint or cones to mark boundary) Large rectangle shape (Basketball court)

Vocabulary Strategies: A plan or actions that lead to a goal. I came up with a strategy to avoid being tagged.

Pacing: The speed of movement. I must use good pacing during this tag game so I don’t get too tired.

Spatial Concepts: The relationship of space between us and others. Imove my body in tag based on my spatial concepts of others.

Introduction

Begin class with a warm up procedure: ● Prepare students with daily expectations before entering the gym OR on Home Base. ● Warm up procedure may include several laps around the gym, stretching routine, or another quick, movement based activity. ● Back at Home Base, review rules/expectations of the school and

PE/Playworks with explicit examples when appropriate. ● Review any other specific reminders needed for the day.

Before releasing students for the first game, use a Sequence Touch to get them to the location you need them to be for the first activity.

Watch Your Back Tag

Show How How to Play:

● Remind students that this tag game will be played inside the large rectangle square. ● In this game, everyone is “it” and will be trying to tag each other while

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