Health Class Tips: Muscle Charades

Pat Aitken

Here's a fun way to drill your students' knowledge of muscle groups and their functions.

How to Play
Divide your class into groups and secretly assign each group one or more muscles.

For example, you might assign:

Group 1: Quadriceps
Group 2: Biceps
Group 3: Pectorals
Group 4: Gluteus maximus
Group 5: Obliques etc.

Each group pantomimes the function of their muscle group to the rest of the class (e.g. cracking a nut on the biceps). The class must guess which muscle is being indicated.

References
1. Anatomy and Physiology Workbook for Dummies, 2nd Edition, For Dummies Publishers, 2015.

2. Joanne Landy & Maxwell Landy, Ready to Use PE Activities for Grades 7-9, Parker Publishing Company, 1993. [$27.95 U.S., + shipping. Available from Prentice Hall Publishing, PO Box 11071, Des Moines, IA 50336 USA Tel: (Toll Free) 1-800/288-4745 Fax: 515/284-6719].

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