Chicken Noodle Tag is a Chasing and Fleeing Standards-based PE Game that is perfect for kindergarten and elementary level programs. It focuses on basic skills and has 3 separate builds that will allow you to introduce new concepts to your students.
Make sure students keep their head up when running.
Builds allow you to increase the game's complexity, one layer at a time.
Players get into a scattered formation. On the teacher's signal, all players begin moving about the playing area while avoiding contact with other players.
This build exists to help students understand the limits of the game while developing their dodging skills.
Students now play the game with the full version of the rules.
The relay rule is the pressure valve. Remind students early that handing the noodle off is a legitimate tactic and not giving up, or the same few runners will do all the work.
As the game progresses, the teacher may create additional pairs of Flees and Chases.
In this build, after a player has had a turn running, either as a Chase or as a Flee, they cross one arm over their chest when frozen. After their second turn running, they cross both arms and may no longer be selected to run.
The crossed arms are a simple way to make sure everyone gets a turn without you having to track it. Students police it themselves once they understand why it is there.
Print the game sheet, leave it on your desk, and your sub has everything they need: the diagrams, the builds in order, what to say, and what to watch for. This one is $4. #PhysEdU Plus members get all 39, free forever, for $49 a year.
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