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Giant Chinese

CheckersItem #15656

• Overview. Great for the gym or outdoors! This huge ChineseCheckers set keeps the fun going for hours. Play like traditional

Chinese Checkers, or with great variations to the game listedhere. Includes 60 soft, 6½”H cone-shaped nylon playing pieces,10 each in red, green, blue, purple, yellow and orange, and a durable 82” x 82” vinyl mat with colorful board gamedesign.

• What Are the Educational Applications?• Giant Chinese Checkers becomes a moving educational experience when you add locomotor skills, partner

and teamwork activities, and games to its normal sedentary way of playing. It is a classic game that everyone

loves to play and now it can help reduce obesity, challenge the sedentary lifestyles and promote activehealthy living.

• Provides positive, simple developmentally appropriate activities for all ages. It combines a traditional gamewith physical activity that can be modied to challenge the appropriate age levels.

 • How Can I Use This Product With My Students?

• Where: Can be used indoors & outdoors on a clean, smooth surface.• Age: 6 to Adult• Group Size: Can be played by 2, 3, 4 or 6 players.

• Basic Skills Needed: An understanding of the basic game rules.

• Set Up/Instructions

• The board is in the shape of a 6-pointed star. Each point of the star is a triangle consisting of 10 holes (fourholes to each side).The interior of the board is a hexagon with each side ve holes long. Each triangle is adifferent color and there are six sets of 10 pegs with corresponding colors.

• For the 6-player game, all pegs and triangles are used. If there are four players, play starts in two pairs ofopposing triangles; and a 2-player game should also be played from opposing triangles. In a 3-player game

the pegs will start in three triangles equidistant from each other.• Each player chooses a color and the 10 pegs of that color are placed in the appropriately-colored triangle.• The objective is to be the rst to player to move all 10 pegs across the board and into the opposite triangle.

 The Games/Activities

• Activity #1: Basic Game

a. Objective: To be the rst to player to move all 10 pegs across the board and into the opposite triangle.b. Set Up: A toss of a coin decides who starts the game.d. How to Play:

• Players take turns moving a single peg of their own color. In one turn, a peg may either be moved into anadjacent hole OR it may make one or more hops over other pegs.

• When a hopping move is made, each hop must be over an adjacent peg and into the vacant hole directly

beyond it. Each hop may be over any colored peg including the player’s own peg and can proceed in anyone of the six directions.

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 Activit y Guide

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• After each hop, the player may either nish or continue by hopping over another peg, if possible.Occasionally, a player will be able to move a peg all the way from the starting triangle across the board

and into the opposite triangle in one turn!• Pegs are never removed from the board. It is permitted to move a peg into any hole on the board,including holes in triangles belonging to other players, even triangles not presently in use. However, oncea peg has reached the opposite triangle, it may not be moved out of the triangle, only within the triangle.

• The rst player to occupy all 10 destination holes is the winner.

• Activity #2: Team Giant Chinese Checkersa. Objective: To move quickly while playing the game as part of a team.b. Set Up: Each team stands behind their color triangle.

c. How to Play:• After each turn, the player runs around the playing area back to the end of their team’s line. The nextpartner steps up to the game and plays their turn.

• All other rules apply as instructed in Activity #1.• This can be played as individuals with the players running around the game board and back to their placeto play their own next move.

• Activity #3: Relay Team Giant Chinese Checkersa. Objective: To use various locomotor movements while competing against other teams; or to work towards a

time goal to break your own team’s record.b. Set Up: Each team stands 15’ to 20’ behind their color triangle.

c. How to Play:• When it is their turn, a member of the team jogs, walks, skips or hops up to the board to play their turn.They then return to their team, giving a high ve to the next in line.

• The next player does a different locomotor skill up to the board, observes the board until it is their turn,takes their turn and then returns to their team to high ve the next teammate.

• All other rules apply.

• Safety Issues & Concerns

• Always move carefully during play to avoid injury.• Watch out for others and stay in your line to allow others to move safely.

Meets These NASPE Standards1. Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical

activities.

2. Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to thelearning and performance of physical activities.

3. Participates regularly in physical activity.4. Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical tness.5. Exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings.6. Values physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and/or social interaction.

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