Your youngsters become cheetahs in search of food, water, shelter, and space in a fun physical game that does a fantastic job of representing fluctuating species population based on resources available over years. 

Concepts

cheetahs, african animals, animals, habitats, survival

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Create a large classroom graph and chart it together from round to round

Classroom Considerations

• In Activity 1, the cheetah movements to signify factors of habitat cover all but water. Consider combining food and water into the movement listed so it is represented

Pros

• Kids are up and moving, creating data through a fun game
• The game is thoroughly described and will require almost no materials
• You'll probably get requests to play this again during PE; spread habitats and cheetahs out to create a more physically challenging activity

Cons

• None