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School’s back, so it’s time to get back into group activities. As the kiddos head back into classrooms and reconnect with their community, teachers and educators are seeking new activities that can be run safely for large cohorts.
They are looking for new ideas to help the students make memories and mark milestones.
More and more teachers and educators are turning to outdoor adventures for very large student activities.
Outdoor activities offer students a fun way to be more active.
Better still, the great outdoors provides a safe environment for an event, guaranteeing an abundance of fresh air.
It is well understood that young people are more likely to get engaged when the activity is more ‘hands-on’ rather than simply staring at a whiteboard.
With outdoor activities, like a laser tag rental, teachers and educators can engage big groups of 100 or even 200 students at once.
Or, if the budget is tight, teachers can split the gang into smaller groups. Using a round-robin format staff can hire a set of 20 or 30 taggers and cycle through the group, so everyone gets a go.
Student groups often have so many structured activities, which are non-linear and can boost the kiddo’s enthusiasm.
Giving them activities that enable them to explore their freedom in the forest is brilliant.
The gear is all pre-set and easy to use. Activity leaders just turn the equipment on with a key and start playing.
The games are intuitive, for example, the game “Team Elimination” divides the group into two teams. Each player gets five hit points (5HP) on their tagger, when they have been tagged out, the students return to the base for a re-activation.
The medic box at the base brings the player back to life, and they run back into the game for a bit of ‘pay-back’.
The team with the least number of re-activations wins!
Everyone participates and everyone contributes to achieving the game victory.
A great way to ensure the students get engaged is to give them a backstory to the game. Giving the students a reason why they are playing helps them get involved.
For example, a popular game is called “Capture & Hold”. For this, as well as renting a set of laser taggers, the teacher adds a game box hire.
The game box is placed in the centre of wherever the students are playing, such as the top of a hill. This box becomes the centre of the action.
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Teachers can enhance the activity by incorporating in local place names or school lore into the game's backstory.
Innovative teachers and educators want to select an activity that is meaningful to the participants.
Many kiddos are interested in how infrared and digital radio technology works to create live-action gaming magic.
This laser tag technology can work indoors or outdoors, day or night.
The laser tag activity can relate to curriculum strands.
Outdoor laser tag is a terrific real-life example of ICT.
Students are fascinated by how the software program (the software tracks the scores, manages the sound effects, etc.) and how the hardware (the scope, case, buttons, etc) works together.
For example, this is a real world application of Essentail Maths and applied statstics.
This is active learning; with this activity, the students are challenged in different ways.
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The bigger the group, in general, the earlier teachers need to start planning.
“On the first day of school we’ve had teachers book in a rental for the last day of the year,” said Nicole Lander, Chief Fun Officer, Laser Tag in a Box.
So, if you have the job of planning a school activity for one class, the entire year level, or the whole school cohort, consider an outdoor adventure with a laser tag rental.
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