Carpenter Tag

Have the class spread out around the gym while seated on their scooters. Have a few individuals be the taggers signified by a different color scooter or wearing a penny. If classmates get tagged by a tagger, then they must spin around...

Students brainstorm a definition for the word cooperation. As a class, they participate in a game in which they try to avoid the taggers. In groups, they surround a tag classmate and help them get to safety. To end the lesson plan, they...

Students play a tag type game using locomotor skills as they move across the gym. They hop on one or two feet when they are tagged while waiting to be freed.

Students choose one space on a line as their personal space while other classmates are choseen to be the taggers. Individually, they move along the line staying clear of the taggers. Within a specific time limit, new taggers are chosen.

Learners are given the opportunity to play a tag game while studing geographical sites in the U.S.A. (relative to the Mississippi River or to other geographic features you may choose).

Learners work on letter recognition as they play a game of tag. To get unfrozen they make a letter with their body and a free runner guesses the letter.

Young scholars work on their spelling skills by spelling a word to get unfrozen if tagged.

Young scholars engage in a instructional activity that involves the playing of tag with two taggers who chase others around a gymnasium. They practice the game until all of the people in the gym are tagged out. This game works on...

Students use a yarn or fleece ball. On the signal (whistle, music) students move around trying to hit as many different classmates feet as possible.

Students get a yarn ball and find a good self space in the playing area (best designated by cones-NOT the walls of a gym). On the teacher's signal students walk and try to tag anyone and everyone in the area.