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PYP PE: an Adventure Challenge activity: CAPTURE the GOLD

8/23/2011

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CAPTURE THE GOLD (see slide show below of game being played in class yesterday)

Materials/equipment needed
Beanbags
Hula Hoops


Description of Game

In this adventure challenge game the students(their teams) are required to cross an imaginary river using hula hoops. Once they get to the other side, they can disembark on land and take a piece of gold (a beanbag) and bring it with them back across the river and place it into their Pot (a bucket or hula hoop). The main rules are:

  • they must stay inside the hoops as they cross (should they fall or step out a piece of gold is taken from their pot and returned to the other side of the river)
  • they are only allowed to have one piece of gold in their hand at a time, from the second they pick it up until the time they place it in the pot (any infraction results in the piece of gold being returned to the other side of the river
  • when all the gold has been collected from the far side of the river, the team must make their way back, bringing all the hula hoops with them and then stack the hula hoops in an orderly fashion on the side of the river that they started on
  • they then count the bean bags to see how many pieces of gold they collected as a team
Key Considerations and Questions


1. Without giving names, what were some of the negative ways that people communicated?


2. What were some of the positive ways?


3. Describe any times that you did not trust the actions of others? (no names)


4. Can you give examples of how an open mind was important when working on your teams.


5. How can your team more effectively move the bean bags (the gold) from one side to the other? (in a quicker, safer way)


6. How can you decrease the amount of running and moving yet still transport bean bags from one side of the river to the other?








2 Comments
Peta
9/21/2015 10:53:18 pm

Hi Andy
I am so pleased that I somehow stumbled upon your website. Thank you so much for sharing these activities with the world. I will be starting a teamwork/strategic thinking unit with my classes this term and can not wait to share these activities with them.

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Rumana
11/7/2017 09:41:51 pm

Hi
I liked the game. I want to implement it in my school. It would be convenient if i could watch a video of it. Thanks

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