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Year 5: Tuesday 2nd June – Entrepreneur Week: Task 2 ‘Think it & Research it’

Warning: If you have not read the Entrepreneur Week expectations blog, or completed ‘Task 1’ Then stop right now! Click the links below, read and complete them first, before you carry on any further!

https://www.broadheath.coventry.sch.uk/?p=149837

https://www.broadheath.coventry.sch.uk/?p=149875

Now the fun can really begin as you are well under your way to becoming an Entrepreneur! Research and thinking is always the first step!

You now need to find out about which current garden games exist, how popular they are and how old or new they are. You may find some games which are really new, but that does not mean old games are not as fun. Timeless classics such as ‘tig’ and ‘hide and seek’ were invented years ago, but are still popular today!

You may also find out that some games require equipment and some do not, this is also okay! Remember, there are lots of different types of games!

You need to be smart with your choices, there are hundreds of games out there, and you are not going to write about allllll of them, but it is about which games are most fun, interesting, relevant (To the UK and to children) and finally, safe to play!

Task 2: Research about the different garden games that exist, their popularity and how old or new they are. Create a lovely neat table (using a ruler) to display your research.

Researching tips: Now Google will come up with lots of different things. Be SMART with your website choices, some will be more reliable than others, for example a website from a magazine company or games manufacturer is a lot more reliable than a page of people’s opinions saying ‘I love this game!!’ (For example YouTube comments)

But as a starting point for your research, here is a list of things I would type in, which you may use:

  • Most popular garden games for kids
  • Current garden games for kids without equipment
  • Garden games for kids with equipment
  • Current outdoor garden games for kids
  • Garden games for kids, old and new!
  • When different garden games were invented or discovered

An example of how you should lay your table out is below!

Challenge: Can you put the games you have found in chronological order of invention or discovery?

58 responses to “Year 5: Tuesday 2nd June – Entrepreneur Week: Task 2 ‘Think it & Research it’”

  1. Rehan H.

    I don’t understand this…

  2. Zubeyr H.

    Garden Game: Connect 4
    Summary of Game: Each player has a set of discs and tries to make a row of 4 discs into a board.
    Equipment: Discs with different colours and a board to hold the discs.
    The game is very popular.
    The game was made in February 1974

  3. Hanif I.

    I have done it.

  4. Aamir K.

    Garden Game name: Tag
    Equipment: You need 2 or more people to play tag.
    How to play: To play tag there is 2 teams, 1 is the person who is tagged, the other is the runner/runners which by their name they have to run. If someone gets tagged they are the tagger and the old tagger is now a runner.
    When was it made: 1870.

    Garden Game name: Hide and seek.
    Equipment: You need 2 or more people to play Hide And Seek.
    How to play: To play hide and seek you have 2 teams. The first team is the seeker team with only one person. The other team is the hider/hiders who have to hide in a spot. If they get found they’re out of the round and have to wait for the next round.
    When was it made: 1976.

    Garden game name: Swing
    Equipment: A swing.
    How to play: You sit on the swing and someone has to push the swing.
    When was it made: 5th Century B.C.

    Garden game name: Slide.
    Equipment: A slide.
    How to play: Climb the ladder and slide down the slide.
    When was it made: 1922.

    Garden game name: Football.
    Equipment: A football and a goal.
    How to play: There is a goalie and some shooters. Goalie has to save the ball by catching it and making sure it doesn’t go into the goal. The shooters have to try score without the goalie catching/saving it.
    When was it made: November 6, 1869.

  5. Mubarig O.

    Giant Connect 4 in a Row Games
    Giant Draughts
    Giant Chess
    Sports Games
    See Saws
    Tree Swings
    Croquet Sets
    Football

  6. Salman R.

    The game tag is a game made in the 1738. One person has to run around and touch people and say tag when happen person who was it ( The person who was catching people ) run away and the person he catches becomes it instead of him. Also a rule is if you cross your fingers it cannot tag you but you can only cross your fingers for five seconds so mos run with their fingers crossed whenever it gets close to them for five seconds. Another rule is that it cannot camp you also meaning wait for your five seconds to be done and then tag you and run away from the new it. The equipment needed is two or more people because this is a two or more player game. Tag is very popular in the UK because it many names in different parts of the UK e.g tig, tiggy, tips, tick, it, chasey, touch and go, and dobby. It is very famous globally too and still played by kids in this generation now like me even though it was made in 1738.

    1. Miss Cochrane

      Do you think there would be a way of playing tag whilst maintaining social distancing?

      1. Salman R.

        By using a ball instead of your hand

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