Evolution

• 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?

1. Have the whole group gather in a contained area.
2. Explain the evolution of all life in our group goes in this order: First the egg, then the chicken, the dinosaur, rock star, superhero.
3. 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.
4. Players mix up, pair up and play Rock Paper Scissors (also called Ro Sham Bo).
5. 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.
6. Players pair up again, only with someone who is in the same stage of evolution.
7. When a player evolves all the way to a superhero, s/he is finished and can fly around the area.
8. Game ends when all the players are also superheroes or when the time limit is up.