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Merging PE with Reading
Third graders listen for a keyword while the teacher reads aloud. They perform an assigned action each time they hear the keyword read.
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The Recycle Games
Students play a series of Recycle Games which provide great exercise while teaching about the importance of recycling. They participate in relay races and games that make use of recycled materials and other "trash."
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Strength
Students participate in static and dynamic activities to develop muscle strength and balance. Free weights are used to work on shoulder, bicep, and tricep muscles. Locomotor skills of hopping, jumping, leaping, skipping, and galloping...
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Earthball Throw
Students practice and assess the overhand throw of students. They overhand throw balls at the earthball and make it roll across another side of the square, all while keeping the ball from rolling across their own line.
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STXBall Soft Lacrosse
Students practice the basic skills of lacrosse -- cradling, throwing and catching, and scooping ground balls.
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Indoor Snowball Game
Students demonstrate the skill of throwing a ball overhand in a game situation. They throw and catch yarn balls across a volleyball net, retrieving the balls that are not caught and throwing them back.
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Scootermania
Students participate in a P.E. game involving cooperation and working nicely together. They transport a yarn ball from one hoop to another while pulling their partner on a scooter board.
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Can You Do This?
Third graders write paragraphs describing activities for classmates to perform using toys such as balls, jump ropes or hula hoops. They take turns reading their paragraphs while other students follow the directions.
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Jump and Graph
Third graders practice measuring skills by jumping and measuring the lengths with yardsticks. After measuring five jumps each, they draw bar graphs representing their jumps.
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Find a Match
Third graders, in pairs, are blindfolded and must find each other across the room by calling out synonyms to each other. They practice with antonyms as well. They can skip, gallop, hop or walk to each other to increase the physical...
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Odds and Evens
First graders play a game to practice identifying odd and even numbers. They are divided into two teams. If the number chosen out of a bag is odd, the odd team runs back to their goal line while being chased by the even team and vice versa.
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HULA HOOP MATH
Students move about the area doing the locomotor action the teacher directs them to do. When the music stops I hold up a card with the problem for all to see. They come up with an answer they form into a group in a hoop with the number...
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Helping Hands Tag
Students work as teams to help others and develop cardio-respiratory endurance. They play a game of tag using noodles.
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William Tell Gallop
Students develop the skill of galloping in order to participate in more complex physical activities.
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Volleyball Set Assessment
Young scholars complete a reciprocal assessment of the set used in volleyball.
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Letter Tag
Students play a chasing, fleeing, dodging freeze tag game while practicing identifying words that begin with a specific letters.
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Medieval Games
Learners 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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Soccer Skills and Technology
Students take digital pictures of their partners performing soccer skills. They incorporate the pictures into a PowerPoint, IMovie or poster presentation.
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Catching Self Assessment
Students perform a number of different ball tossing and catching skills while completing a self-assessment sheet.
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Throwing Underhand and Overhand Peer Assessment
Students create a worksheet at a website showing examples of throwing skills. They practice and assess the skills.
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123/ABC Hopscotch
Students practice alphabet recognition, alphabet sounds, and number readiness while playing a hopscotch type game.
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Polydot Locomotor Tag
Students play a tag type game using locomotor skills as they move across the gym. They hop on one or two feet when they are tagged while waiting to be freed.
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Agility Ladder Challenge
Students rotate to different P.E. stations. They perform a different skill through an agility ladder that is taped to the floor.