Activity: Playing Card Tag and Playing Card Exchange
Grade Level(s): K-5
Content Objective
Locomotor Skills
Controlled movement in Space
Cooperation
Physical Fitness
Safety Considerations
During Playing Card
Exchange-Emphasize that
stopping to trade cards in the
middle of the traffic pattern
with cause injuries. Keep it
moving.
Key Vocabulary
Important/Relevant
Questions
Unit: Fitness/Locomotors/Warm-Up
Standards Addressed
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Time to Complete Activity: 10-15 minutes
Language Objective
TSWBT practice and demonstrate
Movement, Competence & Understanding
various locomotor skills during physical
Physical & Personal Wellness
fitness games while interacting with
Emotional & Social Wellness
other students.
Prevention & Risk Management
Description of Activity
These two games are very similar.
Materials
One deck of cards
Projector
One identified activity per
suit (Find a better artist
than myself to draw the
stick figures!!).
Game 1: Playing Card Tag
All students get one playing card. Students stand in personal space. Everyone is a tagger.
If you do not want to keep the current card that you have, tag someone and they must trade
cards with you. Students can not be tagged while trading cards. Also, no guarding those
Scooters could be used as
who are trading for an immediate tag. When the music stops, all students stop and perform an alternate form of
the exercise that matches the suit of their card. Face cards = ten repetitions, Ace = one
movement.
repetition, and all other cards = the number on the card. The diagram shows what is
projected on the gym wall.
Game2: Playing Card Exchange
Students all have one playing card. Everyone does laps around the gym using various
locomotor skills. If someone says “Trade” you are required to trade cards with that
student. The locomotor movement can not be stopped during the exchange of cards.
Stopping will cause other students to crash into the trading card group. Movements could
include: lunge walk, skipping, galloping, karioka, frog jump, etc. When the music stops all
students perform the exercises displayed on the gym wall.
Both of these activities could be done on scooters as an alternative.
Assessment Tool
Checklist
Exit Slip
Peer Assessment
Post-Test
Pre-Test
Rubric
Self Assessment
Skills Test
Teacher Obser.
Written
Diagram