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Pre-K through Grade 2
Grade 3 through Grade 6
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Grade Levels Pre-K through
Grade 2
Estimated Teaching Time
10 to 15 minutes
Interdisciplinary Connections
- Playing tag (Physical Education)
- Following rules (Social Skills)
- Learning about the spread and eradication of germs (Health
and Science)
Objectives
Children will:
- Understand that germs are spread from one person to another.
- Learn how hand sanitizer helps reduce the spread of germs on
hands.
What Children Do
In this combination of freeze tag and tunnel tag, children will
try to escape the freeze-effect of a “germ” tagging
them, while a “hand sanitizer” frees the “frozen”
children, allowing them to run around again.
Materials Required
None
Advanced Preparation
None; however teachers may wish to create badges or stickers to
help identify the children who are playing the roles of germs and
hand sanitizer.
Suggested Sequence
- Take children outside and have them sit on the grass, if possible.
Discuss what hand sanitizer is, as well as how and when it should
be used.
- Explain to them that they will be playing “Clean Tag”.
Two children will be disease-causing germs; one will be hand sanitizer;
and the rest will play themselves.
- Ask for two volunteers to be the germs and for one to be hand
sanitizer.
- Tell the remaining children to run away from the germs, but
if one of the germs happens to tag them, they must immediately
freeze and stand with their legs far enough apart to make a tunnel
through which someone can crawl.
- When children are frozen, the hand sanitizer is the only one
who can unfreeze them — by crawling through the tunnel between
their legs. Sanitized children are then free to run around again.
- Have the children trade roles at various points during the
game.
Check for Understanding
Ask the following questions:
- In our game of tag, the germs caused you to freeze. In real
life, what can germs do? [They can make you sick.]
- What would have happened if no one was playing the part of
hand sanitizer? [Most likely everyone would have been frozen
by the disease-causing germs.]
Extension
It may be interesting to vary the number of children playing germs
and those playing hand sanitizer. For example, what outcome could
the children predict if there were one germ doing the tagging and
four hand sanitizers unfreezing the children?
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