WOW Game Title: Card Play
Content Area: Math
Physical Education Unit: Locomotor
Grade: 1
TEKS Focus: Addition Facts to 12
Resource: PE Central, www.pecentral.org
Equipment/Materials: Whistle or music for stop and start signal, one deck of playing
cards for twenty students.
Set Up: Take out the Kings, Queens and Jacks from the deck of playing cards. (You will
have 40 cards left.) Distribute two cards to each student (less advanced student-one card
to each student). Have the students spread out in general space.
Activity:
Explain that they must travel around the area by different means (walking, skipping,
sliding, jogging) and in different pathways (straight, zigzagged, curved) to a cue, such as
music or one blast of a whistle. When the music stops or the whistle blasts three times,
the teacher will call out a number. The students must find a partner to make an equation
that answers the number that the teacher called out. The students will use their cards as
the numbers for the equation. The number called should be from 2 to 20 (2-10 for less
advanced students) difficult. The Ace card equals one.
Addition, subtraction can be used in this activity. For example, if you call out the
number 6, the two students will get together and examine their cards. If one student has a
2 and a 9 in their hand and the other child has a 4 then they have a match. If you have a
child that does not have a partner simply ask them, "What number could you have found
to make an equation?" This way they can still participate and learn from the activity.
Once everyone makes an equation, repeat the activity by varying the locomotor skill and
the pathway used each time.
Variations
 Change locomotor movements – skip, gallop, side, jog.
 Scatter the cards around the playing area and have the students skip around and find
the cards as they travel. This might work better for younger students learning
addition/subtraction.
 To challenge students, you could require them to use three cards (ex: a 9, 6 and 2). To
make "6" they could say "9 - 6 = 3”.
Review Questions:
Skill focus: Name a locomotor skill you performed.
Academic focus: What two numbers add up to 10?