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Empathy Activity in PE

This is a tag game called Helping Hands. When students were tagged, they had to sit down. Once they had one or two students hold their hand/hands they help them get up and go to a special area to do an exercise (10 jumping jacks) then they all went back in the game. After first round we had a discussion about how it felt to be sitting and how it felt to have people run by without helping and then how it felt when people came to help you. Then we played again, and the students were much better at helping others after that discussion. We played several rounds switching out taggers.