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Environmental Helpers
Learners strengthen leg muscles while learning about the environment. In this environmental lesson, students use scooters to pick up poly spots from the floor. The poly spots are metaphors for trash.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Students participate in a P.E. game that focuses on strengthening the abdominal and leg muscles using scooters. With five students acting as the "Grinches," they guard beanbags while sitting on scooters, while the rest of the students...
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Fitness 500
Students play a game with a hula hoop, jump rope, and scooter that requires them to develop locomotor movements skills.
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Haunted House Challenge Fitness Stations
Students rotate through ten physical fitness stations. They perform various stretching and strengthening activities for three minutes at a time.
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Medieval Games
Students participate in a theme-based field day base on Medieval games. They integrate the field day activities into an academic study of medieval times.
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Puttin' It All Together
Students explain the concepts of kinetic and potential energy and how it can change forms. In this energy, motion, and frictional forces lesson plan students participate in a hands on activity that includes calculating energy.
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Daytona 500
Students use pedometers to help track distance goals while participating in a team scooter race modeled after the Daytona 500.
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Radioactive River
Students work cooperatively as a team to cross a "radioactive" river using a scooter and carpet squares. They discuss and analyze their teamwork and cooperation and the different skills used to complete the activity.
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Hungry Hungry Hippos
Students play a game in which they use scooter boards to impersonate hippos. They gather balls and place them into a bucket while remaining on the scooter boards.
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Driving Range
Learners practice safety rules and knowledge of the road by going through a driving course using scooters/bicycles/tricycles, etc.
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Vocabulary Words Spelled with "oo" and "ew"
In this recognizing words spelled with "oo" and "ew" worksheet, students spell, unscramble, and write sentences using the vocabulary words sooner, scooter, newspaper, lose, loose, and knew. Students complete eighteen activities.
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At Play Long Ago and Today: comprehension skills
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book At Play Long Ago and Today and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including note taking, compare and contrast, predicting, and author's purpose.
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Scooting Away from Justice?
Students examine President Bush's July 2007, decision to commute the 30-month sentence of former White House official, I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby by reading a New York Times article. They scan editorial sources on various sides of the...
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Winter Holiday Stations
Students reinforce skills already learned in a fun activity before the Holidays. They participate in such games as Candy Cane Bowling, Stocking Stuffers, Jingle Bell Basketball, and Candy Cane Lane.
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Science: Motion Commotion
Students examine Newton's three laws of motion to discover what causes it and how it changes. They conduct motion experiments by building catapults and constructing balloon rockets. Finally, they conduct peer studies correlating...
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A Moving Frame of Reference
We often remind pupils to cite their references, but this lesson helps them understand there are many frames of reference. Scholars experiment with throwing a ball straight up in the air and catching it. Then they must do it again while...
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Winter Olympics Stations
Young scholars experience various Winter Olympic sports in Physical Education class. In this Winter Olympics activity, students participate in stations which represent the Olympic games. These representative stations include a biathlon,...
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"The Secret Life of Trees" Spelling Activity
In this spelling worksheet, learners bubble in the letters that spell a set of words from the story The Secret Life of Trees. Words are dictated by the teacher.
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Make a Word
Students work in a group to develop words from letters they collect during the activity. The words can be general or from their weekly spelling list. They practice different locomotor skills while using scooters to move.
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Beat the Grinch
Students move safely about the entire gym on scooters, picking up bean bags one at a time, placing them in a basket. This is a good warm up activity to be used for the first 5-10 minutes of class.
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Ghostbusters
Students are giving one scooter to participate in the tag game. As a class, they create their own obstacle course in which they try to avoid the taggers in the haunted setting. To end the lesson, they discover why physical activity is...
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Scooterville
Students practice safe driving on a scooter, following the "rules of the road", to develop fitness.
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Healthy Choice Shopping Frenzy
Young scholars learn the categories of the food pyramid. In this food groups lesson, students learn to categorize food. Through this activity young scholars scoot to different food groups learning about the foods that belong in each group.