Polar Bear Tag
Grade Level: K-6
Skills Developed: Spatial awareness, teamwork, cooperation, locomotor and non-locomotor skills (running, chasing, dodging, fleeing), cardiovascular endurance, and agility.
Equipment Needed: None
How to Play:
Designate a playing area - I usually use the basketball lines (the center circle represents the Ice Cave, the two end lines represent the safety lines)
Skills Developed: Spatial awareness, teamwork, cooperation, locomotor and non-locomotor skills (running, chasing, dodging, fleeing), cardiovascular endurance, and agility.
Equipment Needed: None
How to Play:
Designate a playing area - I usually use the basketball lines (the center circle represents the Ice Cave, the two end lines represent the safety lines)
- Choose 2-3 students to be the polar bears and have them stand in the "Ice Cave" (center circle).
- Have all other students, who are the fish, line up across one of the end lines.
- The game is started when the polar bears call out, "polar bears are hungry!". The fish will now swim (run) across the sea (playing area) trying to reach the other end line without being tagged by one of the polar bears.
- The polar bears try to catch a fish and bring them back to the "Ice Cave". Polar bears may only catch one fish at a time.
- Whenever there are two fish in the "Ice Cave", the two join hands and become fishermen. The fishermen try to help the polar bears catch the fish. Just like the polar bears, the fishermen can only catch one fish at a time.
- The game continues until there are only 2-3 fish remaining.
- The last two remaining become the polar bears for the next round.