GAMES YOU CAN PLAY

Musical Chairs

For this game, you will need: chairs, people to play, and music. Put enough chairs for all of the people in your group in a circle, and have someone take turns playing the music (with a record player, cassette player, or by singing, etc.). When the music person plays the music, everyone walks in a circle around the circle of chairs. Make sure everyone goes the same direction! The music person will decide when to stop the music, and everyone will try to grab a chair. This round of the game shows an area where everyone has a space, like an area with no allelopathy against trees. Before the next round begins, the music person will remove some chairs, and then start the music again as the whole class goes around the circle. When the music stops, everyone will try to find a chair, and those left standing will have to sit out of the game, like trees protecting their area of growth with allelopathy! Keep going until only one person can get a chair. This person will represent the tree with the best allelopathic abilities who can keep other trees out of their "space!"

OUTTA MY SPACE!

For this game, you will need: cards that say "allelopathic" and "not allelopathic" and a container to draw the cards out of in order to pick which people are "allelopathic trees" and "non-allelopathic trees." After each person picks a card, they enter a classroom or an area marked off with string or chalk to represent a forest's space. The "allelopathic" people get to stand with their arms outstretched, and turn in place to mark of their protected space. The "non-allelopathic" people must keep their arms to their sides, and may not stand in the other "trees' " spaces that they have marked off while spinning around. See how many of both groups can enter the marked off "forest." Review with your teacher, and your class, the principles of allelopathy, and see how this game relates to allelopathy in its many different forms in the world of nature!

Other Game Ideas

Many games involve the same allelopathic ideas as the games above. Some of these games involve jacks, checkers, dodge ball, etc.

Creative Usage of Knowledge

Now that you have learned a lot about allelopathy and especially allelopathic trees, it is time for you to design something of your own that shows some of the things that you have learned. Here is one possible idea: You have learned a lot about how allelopathic trees take over space and prevent other types of vegetation from entering their space. You have also learned that there are other things that seem or act like allelopathic organisms, like tall buildings in a big city or like people in the game you played. Try to draw what you picture allelopathy to be after having learned about it. For instance, draw a picture of people, buildings, or trees or other kinds of plants and use different colors for the allelopathic people, trees, or buildings. Space them out based on what kind they are. Make sure that the allelopathic things do not have a lot of other things around them.

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