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SPORTTABLE BOX
What if a board game could push you off the couch? Sporttable Box
will do more than that. It will cure you of your laziness and make
you want to move. Really!
Sporttable Box is the result of an amazing
fusion between board games and physical
activity…It is a vintage “technology” in the
service of a new concept!
Sporttable Box stimulates the development
of motor skills, coordination, balance,
placement and spatial orientation, visual
perception and memory as well as logical
thinking, communication, interpersonal
As the formula indicates [(sport + table = (s) growth and the values of fair-play.
portable) + box], Sporttable box is a board
game with a Sports theme that combines
We talked with the author and creator
strategy with fun physical activity challenges. of this game, Gil Carpalhoso, a Portuguese
Physical Education teacher who tried to
You can have a good time based on
overcome the fact that, during the rainy
cooperative and oppositional interactions
days of winter, his classes faced space
between players in a box that you can take limitations as the school’s gym was not
everywhere. In addition, it is a valuable and always available to all teachers at the same
effective professional and educational tool time. So, the only space left wherein to
in various types of contexts as in situations teach his subject was the normal classroom.
of team-building, physical education classes
or in leisure time animation.
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