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23.3 Indoor and Outdoor games (2)

Learning Objective – The students will learn more about indoor and outdoor games.

Note:

 Indoor games are played inside the house or indoor courts.

 Most of them are board games.

 These games can be played with minimum number of players as two members.

 Anytime at home we can play these games whether it is afternoon, evening or night.

 In Chess, Scrabble maximum of 2players can play at the same time. The equipment

for this game is a chessboard and chess pieces, for Scrabble there is scrabble board

and letter tiles.

 Games like Carrom, Ludo and Monopoly are some of the examples of board games.

In these games 2 to 4 players can play at a time.

 Table Tennis, Badminton 2 or 4 players play together. Every game has its own

equipment and different rules. For Badminton the required equipment are racquets,

shuttle cock and for Table Tennis there are tennis bats and a small ping pong ball.

 In the same way outdoor games are helpful in developing hand-eye coordination

with a large group we get the opportunity to improve our social skills.

 We get chance to meet different people and make new friends by playing outside in

a large group.

 In some games players play the game with groups or teams, for example in Cricket,

Football and Hockey they play in two teams and each team consists of 11 players.

 Football - the players play with a ball and all other gears.

 Cricket - a bat, ball, stumps and other gears.

 Hockey -Hockey stick and ball with other gears.

Learning Outcome: -Students can elaborate clearly about indoor and outdoor games.