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Couch Potato

For Teachers K - 5th
Show your class that being active is more fun than being a couch potato! A fun tag game teachers learners about making healthy eating choices. Over 125,000 teachers have reviewed this activity, and many have written comments about how...
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Partner Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students find a partner. After they are with a partner have them find a good self space in the playing area. Identify one student as the chaser and the other as the dodger. After the dodger is tagged, students switch roles.
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Frosty's Freeze Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students improve their chasing, fleeing and dodging skills in a cooperative, fun, holiday game using white (fleece) snowballs.
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Who Let the Dogs Out Tag/Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students get a stuffed animal (chicken, dog or rabbit). When the "Bunny Hop" music is playing, all students perform the dance. When "Who Let the Dogs Out" plays, the "dogs" chase (via walking) the chickens and rabbits. If tag
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Grinch Stole Christmas

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students participate in a variety of 'tag'. The "Grinch" is it while "Santa and Mrs. Claus" can free any 'frozen' students. They can work on varied locomotor skills (hopping, walking, jumping)as they navigate the field boundaries
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Sunshine and Snowflakes

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils play a variation of freeze tag starting with two snowflakes that can freeze others. To become unfrozen students are tagged by sunshine pupils.
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Energy Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore how the blood flows and carries oxygent from the lungs to the heart and to the body to create energy after participating in chasing, fleeing and dodging activities. They actively move through an obstacle course...
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North Pole Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners review the proper way to chase, flee and dodge others in a game of tag. As a class, they pretend they are on the North Pole acting as grinches, reindeer and elves. They play the game practicing different locomotor skills.
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Math Munchers

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify the ones and tens values of a two digit number, while practicing chasing, fleeing, and dodging skills.
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Valentine Rescue

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students play a Valentine's Day version of tag. They attempt to rescue bean bags (valentines) from one end of the play area and deliver them to another without getting tagged by a 'Hug' or 'Kiss'. Cupid can unfreeze any tagged players.
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Letter Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students play a chasing, fleeing, dodging freeze tag game while practicing identifying words that begin with a specific letters.
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Team Leap Frog

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in a team game to determine how many people on the other team they can tag and have squatting at the end of the time period.
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Pokemon Tag

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students play a tag variation game. Four different colored hula hoops are placed in the corners of the gym with a ball of the same color. Four students are selected to be the Pokemon taggers, they stand in their corresponding hula hoop....
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Triangle Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners practice their chasing, fleeing, and dodging skills in small groups.
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Body Part Tag

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students participate in a game of tag using body parts. They are dodgers and taggers in this game. Dodgers try to avoid having teacher-named body parts tagged by the taggers.
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Trick or Treat!

For Teachers K - 5th
Students demonstrate faking abilities in activities. They fake out other students in dodging and chasing activities.
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Hanukkah Tag Game

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners discuss the celebration of Hanukah. They play a Hanukkah tag game. Students pretend to be candle makers and "shamus" candles. They practice chasing, fleeing, and dodging games.
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Nineteenth Ammendment

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars discuss the Nineteenth Amendment and how it gave women the power to vote. They emphasize the struggle women had in gaining the right to vote and some important questions are answered.
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Magician Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners participate in a creative version of the game freeze tag.
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Common Lit: "Chasing Memories" in Their Refugee Camp 40 Years After Fleeing

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "'Chasing Memories' in Their Refugee Camp 40 Years after Fleeing Vietnam" by Hansi Lo Wang, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be...
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Pe Central: Instant Activity: Spongebob Squarepants Tag

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Here is a variation of tag based on the popular cartoon "Spongebob Squarepants." Includes a simple way of randomly assigning who plays "it" during the game.