Grade: Junior, Intermediate
Facility: Outdoors
Physical Activity Level: Moderate to Vigorous
Time: 20 minutes or two 10 minute segments
Materials: 5 – 6 task cards
Activity Description: Take advantage of the last few weeks of fall to get some fresh air with your classroom while completing this fun activity. Mission Impossible is a great way to implement 20 minutes of Daily Physical Activity outdoors but can also be adapted for other environments such as multi-purpose rooms and gymnasiums. After implementing this activity with your students, provide them with an opportunity to come up with their own challenges to share with other students.
Overview: Create task cards with a list of challenges (see examples below). Divide students into groups of five or six. Give each group a task card and challenge students to complete the tasks together as a group, as quickly as possible. Allow for a warm-up (beginning with less vigorous movement) and cool down (ending with less vigorous movement). Allow each group time to make their own task card to be used next time, creating an entire collection of Mission Possible task cards for future use.
- Prepare 5-6 task cards in advance (see examples below)
- Divide students into groups of five or six
- Give each group a task card
- Challenge each group to complete the task together as quickly as possible
- Remind students to move safely and to avoid colliding with others groups during the challenge.
- Ask the group who finished first to lead a stretching routine to cool down
- Ask each group to create their own task card, filled with new challenge ideas, for next time
A list of tasks may include:
- Touch the bike racks and do 10 jumping jacks
- Run to the centre of the field and yell, “I love life,” three times
- Skip one lap of the school yard with your team “attached” together in some way
- Do five sit-ups in each corner of school yard
- Touch two different walls of the school
- Do 10 lunges in the centre of the baseball diamond
- Hop on one foot across the field
(Adaptations to the above examples may be required to accommodate the varying skills and abilities of you students)
Source: Adapted from Grade 4-6, H&PE Curriculum Resource Support Document
