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K-4Cooperation10-15 min

Freeze Tag (Coach Odom Style)

❄️ Freeze Tag (Coach Odom Style) K-4 2-4 taggers. “5,4,3,2,1,go!” Freeze with hand up. High-five to unfreeze. Pro Tip from Coach Odom: “The game isn’t fun if everyone is tagged so it is your job as an ‘unfrozen’ player to help your ‘frozen’ teammates.” Safety: 2-finger tag + “tag/gotcha”, eyes forward. TEKS: K-4.1A (locomotor), K-4.2A (cooperation), K-4.4A (safe participation) Character Focus: Hel

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Helping your teammates + responsibility. Even in this exercise-based tag game, Coach Odom reminds students that the game is better when everyone participates — unfrozen players should help keep the energy high and support friends. 5E: 🔥 Engage: Quick demo of safe 2-finger tag and freeze pose. 🔍 Expl

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    5E Lesson Plan

    engage
    Quick demo of safe 2-finger tag and freeze pose. 🔍 Explore: 1-2 practice rounds with teacher as tagger. 📖 Explain: Rules + Pro Tip verbatim. Safety language. “Help your teammates.” 🚀 Elaborate: Full game, rotate taggers often. Celebrate helpers. ✅ Evaluate: Observe helping, safe tagging, quick freez
    explore
    1-2 practice rounds with teacher as tagger. 📖 Explain: Rules + Pro Tip verbatim. Safety language. “Help your teammates.” 🚀 Elaborate: Full game, rotate taggers often. Celebrate helpers. ✅ Evaluate: Observe helping, safe tagging, quick freezes, positive language.
    explain
    Rules + Pro Tip verbatim. Safety language. “Help your teammates.” 🚀 Elaborate: Full game, rotate taggers often. Celebrate helpers. ✅ Evaluate: Observe helping, safe tagging, quick freezes, positive language.
    elaborate
    Full game, rotate taggers often. Celebrate helpers. ✅ Evaluate: Observe helping, safe tagging, quick freezes, positive language.
    evaluate
    Observe helping, safe tagging, quick freezes, positive language.

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    ❄️ Freeze Tag (Coach Odom Style)

    K-4
    2-4 taggers. “5,4,3,2,1,go!” Freeze with hand up. High-five to unfreeze. Pro Tip from Coach Odom: “The game isn’t fun if everyone is tagged so it is your job as an ‘unfrozen’ player to help your ‘frozen’ teammates.” Safety: 2-finger tag + “tag/gotcha”, eyes forward.
    TEKS: K-4.1A (locomotor), K-4.2A (cooperation), K-4.4A (safe participation)
    Character Focus: Helping your teammates + responsibility. Even in this exercise-based tag game, Coach Odom reminds students that the game is better when everyone participates — unfrozen players should help keep the energy high and support friends.

    5E:

    • 🔥 Engage: Quick demo of safe 2-finger tag and freeze pose.
    • 🔍 Explore: 1-2 practice rounds with teacher as tagger.
    • 📖 Explain: Rules + Pro Tip verbatim. Safety language. “Help your teammates.”
    • 🚀 Elaborate: Full game, rotate taggers often. Celebrate helpers.
    • ✅ Evaluate: Observe helping, safe tagging, quick freezes, positive language.