LUB DUB TAG

TAG GAME

Objective: Students will learn heart anatomy and the importance of good heart health.

Cognitive Link: Physical activity facilitates cognition. Experiential learning anchors learning.

Academic Concepts: Circulatory System

Equipment: Buffers as taggers (foam ball, paper ball, sock ball, etc.)

Organization: Students are scattered out in the play area. Because this is a tag game, remind students to watch their personal space. Two students will be IT and are holding the tagging buffers.

Anticipatory Set: Teacher's Quote: "In order to take better care of your heart it is important to know how your heart works. Listen to your heartbeat. It sounds like its saying "Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub".

There are four rooms in your heart where the blue blood is pumped through the heart to the lungs where it picks up oxygen. This is the LUB in the heartbeat. The blood is then pumped through the lungs where the blood picks up oxygen and turns red, then goes back to the heart (this is the DUB of the heartbeat) and is pumped to the rest of the body where the blood delivers its oxygen and food.

Things like unhealthy diet, smoking, and lack of exercise causes our hearts to be unfit. It simply can't work as well as it should. In our tag game today we will help each other rid our systems of extra fat and calories to help our hearts work better.

Let's pretend that our play area is the heart and we are little blood cells being pumped through the heart.

Activity: The students that are IT represent risk factors such as too much TV, super=size French fries or cigarettes. The other students are blood cells. On signals, IT starts to tag others. If tagged the student squats down and yells "LUB DUB LUB DUB". Any untagged student can rescue the tagged person by gently touching him/her on the shoulder and saying "healthy heart". The teacher stops play after about 2 minutes to have students check their heart rate and switch ITS. The teacher processes the importance of being honest and helping others. Play several times.

Closure: Teacher's Quote: "Exercise and good nutrition create a healthier heart. Name some exercises that you do that increase your heart rate. Name 3 healthy foods that you have eaten so far today. Have you eaten your 5 fruits or vegetables today? Tell us about some thing today that you did to help someone else without being asked to do so."