Use this simple playground tool as a means to increase cooperation and communication as students are challenged to evolve from Eggs to Superheroes!
- No materials are required for this activity.
On the playground, most conflicts can be solved with a good ol’ fashioned game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Can your students all become Superheroes and fly high around the playground?
- Have the whole group gather in a contained area.
- Explain the evolution of all life in our group goes in this order: First the egg, then the chicken, the dinosaur, rock star, superhero.
- Each stage of evolution has a corresponding action – egg is low to the ground with hands over their head, chicken walks like a chicken and clucks, dinosaur has arms outstretched like big jaws, etc. Everyone begins as an egg.
- Players mix up, pair up and play Rock Paper Scissors (also called Ro Sham Bo).
- The person who wins evolves to the next step, the person who did not win goes down a stage. If the player is already an egg s/he remains an egg.
- Players pair up again, only with someone who is in the same stage of evolution.
- When a player evolves all the way to a superhero, s/he is finished and can fly around the area.
- Game ends when all the players are also superheroes or when the time limit is up.
- Allow players who lose Rock Paper Scissors to remain at their current stage of evolution. This makes the game go a little faster.
- Also called Morph.
- There are no foreseeable safety concerns for this activity.
A wrap-up is not necessary for this activity.
Obtained from: https://www.playworks.org/game-library/evolution/