Main Idea

• HS Students are working on a Creative Games Unit involving Instant Actvitity and Skill Based Games .
• They have to create games from scratch using set equipment.
• Once you have worked on the unit and kids have some practice we will something called the CPG The Creative Play Gauntlet. Students will only have a couple of minutes to set up a game and present it to judges. The top judged scores move on to the next round of the gauntlet.

The lessons consists of a week or two of learning about what Creative Play is and the benefits of being able to have autonomy in your own games:

• Experiencing physical activity in a way you and your friends have complete control over.
• You have the opportunity to be active through an avenue you are passionate about.
• You can have fun planning it and sharing it with your friends at home or at recess.
• Have students build background on games they played as a kid that they created and enjoy. REFLECTION IS KEY and and an amazing way to create dialogue.

Your lessons will consist of Instant Activity and Skill Based Games. You can cater these to different styles, this is just what we went with. Explain the concepts in these types of games and have kids use any equipment they want to explore creative pathways to create these games and present them to the class after a couple days. I would say 3 days per each theme, with presentations of the third.

Take a couple days to do the gauntlet and have them advance through rounds, 1st round-Instant Activity 2nd round-Skills Based. I find kids love it when there are teacher judges. Judges will be given rubrics and have 1 minute to provide feedback.

Make teams of 4

5 minutes to prepare their game

2 minutes to set up

2 minutes to demonstrate

5-7 minutes for the other classmates to play their game. ( You can adjust these times depending on the length of your class period)