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Title: Habitat
Survivor |
Subject
Areas/ Skills Covered:
Science 2.5 (a, b), 3.4 (a), 3.5 (b, c), 4.5 (a,
b, d, f) |
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| Objectives:
Students will be able to operate a scooter board safely.
Students will improve leg and abdominal strength during the
activity. Will
understand the broad concept of habitat and the importance on
conservation. Student
will demonstrate teamwork and fair-play during the activity (by
taking turns and cheering for each other).
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Equipment:
10
- 12 scooter boards, fruit basket (laundry basket), food (many
pieces of small equipment, koosh balls, yarn balls, bean bags,
etc.), 5 big cones, and 10 frisbees
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Lesson:
Habitat Survivor
1.
The teacher will begin discussing the following (what is a
habitat, what is an ecosystem, what does conservation mean, what
does a predator do, what is a carnivore, herbivore?)
2.
The teacher will split the class into teams of 3 – 5
students. Each team
will become a woodland (forest) animal that must collect food. They must collect a certain number of food items (teacher
decides) in order to survive the winter.
3.
Each team will have a scooter board (talk about safety
concerns) so they can move fast like an animal and a hiding spot
for the food they recover (a frisbee).
4.
One player at a time will ride the scooter across the
forest (gym floor) and try to get to “Fruit & Nut Trees”.
If the students make it to the “Fruit & Nut Trees”
they may get one piece of food and try to return to their home.
5.
There will be some predators (students in the middle on a
scooter and wearing colored pennies).
They will try to capture (or tag) the animals while they
are on their way to the “Fruit & Nut Trees”.
If a predator tags an animal, the animal must return to
home (by picking up the scooter) and let another person have a
turn to go. If they had a piece of food when tagged, they must return it
to the “Fruit & Nut Trees”.
6.
Any animal is safe as long as they are 1) in the “Fruit
& Nut Trees” or 2) have any body part on one of the cones
(hiding trees) on the floor.
7.
A player is out if they are tagged by a predator or if they
fall and get injured while trying to get food or escape (fall off
the scooter).
8.
The teacher will select the first set of predators to be in
the middle.
9.
Each round will last about 2 minutes before the
predators are replaced.
10.
For the fastest action, have two predators waiting by the
wall ready to play at all times, then you will not have to stop
the game as often.
11.
The team that gets the most food at the end, wins.
12.
To make the
game more exciting, the teacher can change the habitat to make it
more difficult to survive.
a.
Add
predators
b.
Put out less
food
c.
Eliminate
the hiding trees because of construction
d. Increase
the amount of food needed to survive a harsher winter |
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