Republic of the Philippines

University of Southeastern Philippines

Iñigo Street, Obrero, Davao City 8000

“INTRODUCTION OF RECREATIONAL GAMES AND ACTIVITIES”

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Subject of

PE 224/122

Prepared by:

Alimpolo, Joan Sophia

Barao, Frecy Mae H.
Calamba, Shaina J.
Epa, Cherry Jayne D.
Padillo, Flory Mae T.
Usman, Jorhaina N.

BSBA 2b

Submitted to:
HEIDI GAY R. VELASCO, LPT
Instructor, PE 224/122

February 21, 2024

 Republic of the Philippines
University of Southeastern Philippines
A.Y. 2024

INTRODUCTION OF RECREATIONAL GAMES AND ACTIVITIES

I. ASSESSMENTS:
• Discuss the history and background of the selected active recreational game

II. TOPIC 1: HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF CATCH THE DRAGON’S TAIL

Reporter/s: Calamba, Shaina J. & Epa, Cherry Jayne D.

• Definition

In the game Catch the Dragon’s Tail, it takes at least 8 members to form a straight line
representing the dragon. Each player holds the other’s waist or shoulder. The person in
front is considered the "head,” and the last person is the "tail." The objective of this game
is for the head to catch the tail without breaking the line. This can be played in a small
group consisting of one line representing the dragon or in a large number of groups with
equal members consisting of two or more dragons, and each line or group competes with
each other by the head catching the tail of the other group and the other members as the
support.

• History and Background

It has been played in China for a while and almost all of the children in China know
about it. This game is played by Chinese children and American college students. This
game fits in well with Chinese New Year celebrations when there are street festivals with
dancing dragons. This traditional Chinese game is great fun for the playground.

• Scoring:

2 groups or more
 - Once the game starts, all dragons try to catch the tails of the other dragons
while protecting their own. All dragons that have lost their tail are out of the
game. Winner of the game is the last remaining dragon (or all remaining
dragons after some predefined time).

One group only

- The first person must get the last person without letting the body of the
dragon break. When the head gets the tail, the head will become the tail
and everyone will move forward one space

III. TOPIC 2: HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF SCRABBLE

• Introduction

Scrabble refers to a board game that allows you to put letters together to create meaningful
words. Playing Scrabble, particularly with your friends or family members is a great way to
forge stronger relationships and kill boredom. However, it is more than a simple game of words
as it involves many strategies to succeed. In fact, playing Scrabble has many hidden benefits
that range from developing your intellect to enhancing your vocabulary and much more than
you can imagine.
• History of Scrabble

Scrabble was conceived during the Great Depression by an unemployed New York
architect named Alfred Mosher Butts, who figured Americans could use a bit of distraction
during the bleak economic times. After determining what he believed were the most enduring
games in history — board games, numbers games like dice or cards and letter games like
crossword puzzles — he combined all three. He then chose the frequency and the distribution
of the tiles by counting letters on the pages of the New York Times, the New York Herald
Tribune and The Saturday Evening Post. For more than a decade he tweaked and tinkered
with the rules while trying — and continually failing — to attract a corporate sponsor. The
Patent Office rejected his application not once, but twice, and on top of that, he couldn't settle
on a name. At first he simply called his creation "it" before switching to "Lexiko," then "Criss-
Cross Words." When a New Yorker named James Brunot contacted Butts about mass-
producing the game, he readily handed the operation over. Brunot's contributions were
significant: he came up with the iconic color scheme (pastel pink, baby-blue, indigo and bright
 red), devised the 50-point bonus for using all seven tiles to make a word, and conceived the
name "Scrabble." The first Scrabble factory was an abandoned schoolhouse in rural
Connecticut, where Brunot and several gracious friends manufactured 12 games an hour.
When the chairman of Macy's discovered the game on vacation and decided to stock his
shelves with it, the game exploded. By 1952, Brunot's homegrown assembly line was churning
out more than 2,000 sets a week. Nearly 4 million Scrabble sets were sold in 1954 alone.

IV. TOPIC 3: HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF OBSTACLE COURSE

• Definition
An obstacle course is a series of challenging physical obstacles an individual,
team or animal must navigate, usually while being timed. Obstacle courses can
include running, climbing, jumping, crawling, swimming, and balancing elements with
the aim of testing speed, endurance and agility.
• Introduction
o One of the training activities during camp.
o Not only makes the cadets physically strong but also develops a very high
degree of confidence and develops the qualities of patience and courage to
face all types of challenges and barriers in life.
o The obstacles, depending upon the structure, are constructed of wood,
bricks, concrete and mud. Each obstacle is placed at a distance of about 30
feet from each other.

• History/Background
The use of obstacle courses to train soldiers likely goes back to antiquity, though
they were used in a less structured manner. The rise of set, intentionally-constructed
obstacle courses would largely have to wait until the 19th century. Frequent wars had
shown the necessity of keeping their peoples in fighting shape. Various schools of
thought developed as to how best to do that, but most focused on gymnastics and
functional exercises: running, calisthenics, jumping, climbing ropes, and using
equipment like rings, the pommel horse, and parallel bars.
 - At the turn of the 20th century, Frenchman Georges Hebert got the idea of
taking these different exercises and arranging them into a set obstacle
course.
- Hebert created "un parcours" which means journey or route — this includes
courses on which “one walks, one runs, one jumps, one progresses
quadrupedally [crawls], one climbs, one walks in unstable balance, one
raises, one carries, one throws.”
- Hebert then began to train the French Navy in his system, creating parcours
de combatant on which sailors and marines could prepare themselves for
battle. His work would continue during and between the two world wars,
with his natural method becoming the standard system of French military
physical education, and spreading to armed forces around the world. The
idea of improving one’s mental and physical skills on obstacle courses
proved popular with citizens as well, and his teachings inspired the building
of civilian fitness trails, woodland challenge courses, confidence courses
(which feature obstacles higher off the ground), and of course, the modern
discipline of parkour.

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Scrabble
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Scrabble rules. (n.d.). https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/uc-
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Obstacle Course

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