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Santa's Sack
Pupils practice throwing and catching with a partner or self toss-catch. As a prerequisite skill they should understand safe spaces and have some knowledge of throwing and catching skills.
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School Renovation - What's Your Idea?
Young scholars discuss the upcoming renvoations to their school. As a class, they develop their own proposals for what they would like to have available to them. Using a digital camera, they take pictures of the new school and compare...
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Mission "Possible" Fitness
Students elevate their heart rate and practice fitness skills. They work together to complete a list of exercises simultaneously.
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Lessing meets Haring
Students create a challenging mural that functions as visual storytelling and encourages graffiti prevention. They examine the history of their town, pose questions about public art and view artwork by Keith Haring for inspiration.
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Magic Rope Curl-ups
Students imagine that they are pulling themselves up from the floor using a magic rope.
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Japanese Noh Masks
Students examine Japanese theatre and create their own face masks which display certain emotions, props, costumes and perform in improvisational theatrical games.
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Madagascar Tag
Students play a tag game. They are divided into zoo keepers, penguins, and lions. Each group has different responsibilities such as skipping, galloping, and jumping. Students perform different locomotor skills each time they are tagged.
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Special Delivery
Students demonstrate locomotor skills for assessment. After receiving an envelope with a skill to be addressed, they perform that skill and receive a stamp for completion. Each student must complete all of the skills in order to...
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Planning a Trip to the North Carolina Art Museum
Students navigate the North Carolina Art Museum website and find answers to questions needed before a visit.
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What Do I Really Have to Gain?
Second graders further develop simple addition facts and their ability to record the facts.
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Monster Mash Dance
Students dance to the song, "Monster Mash" and explore how to get moving at the beginning of class.
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Constitution Day
Students discuss the need for rules in their community and classroom. Using this information, they identify the authority figures at their house, at school and in the community. They are read a book about following the rules and listen...
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Cranium Cool Down
Students cool down from physical activity and practice an activity to reinforce the locations of our bones. At the end of PE class students stand or sit in small group and sing and touch bones to the song "Macarena". The teacher can...
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Feeding Frenzy
Students are divided into two teams in which its members are to gather as many objects in the pool as possible gaining points for different objects.
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Crazy Pathways
Learners, working in groups, demonstrate their ability to follow pathways using designated locomotor skills.
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Cheeto Tag
Young scholars practice motor skills while playing this variation of tag. They learn the importance of hand washing in the activity.
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Chinese Shadow Puppets
Students explore the art of Chinese shadow puppetry. They create puppets, develop and rehearse scripts and perform a show in front of the class.
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Write to Move
Fifth graders write for their classmates in order to enjoy some physical fun. Students select a category in which they can create some locomotive skills to match the chosen category. Students write a paper explaining how to complete the...
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"Know How" to Line Up
Students identify and define several movements physically acted out. They participate in a freeze activity in which they line up performing different movements. For example, they line up (1) if they are doing a strength exercise, (2)...