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From Basketball Court to Supreme Court
Learners discuss scenarios about unfairness and retaliation in school sports. They read about a recent Supreme Court ruling about Title IX, and research, conduct polls and write articles about public opinions on gender issues in sports.
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Asthma
Students experience what it feels like to strain for air in order to empathize with people who have asthma. They create a simple model of the respiratory system to measure the effect of narrowed airway channels.
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Mr. Bones
Students play CD-ROM game My Amazing Human Body, and participate in relay game in Phys. Ed. where they put together skeleton on which body parts are labeled.
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Who's On First
Students combine reading and physical education to reinforce what they've learned about positions on a baseball or softball field. They read and conduct a skit about baseball.
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Kidding Around Down Under
After reading an article, "From an Alternate to a 'Miracle Kid' in a Flash," youngsters discuss the kind of commitment required for a teenager to become an Olympic athlete. A variety of activities is suggested, and the popular topic...
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Team Shot: Basketball Shooting
Learners practice shooting a ball from a variety of places around a basketball goal.
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Wammi Ball
Learners practice volleyball skills and communication while in a small game-like situation.
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Circuit Training Surprise
Students move around the gym to music, and when the music stops, they sit on a balloon. Inside each balloon are directions for another physical activity students should do.
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Compass Rose Tossing
Students use different pieces of equipment to practice throwing and catching. They use the cardinal directions of North, South, East and West in making a compass rose with the equipment. They must use higher order and decision making...
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Snatch And Strike
Learners reinforce striking with a short-handled implement using an overhand, underhand, or sidearm motion.
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Muscle Mania
Students use word association to explain the basic muscles and movement. They stand on a Polyspot while the teacher calls out the muscle and/or key phrase and students perform the movement associated with that muscle.
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Rolling Around the Continents
Learners practice throwing skills by rolling a ball at a target, and practice the location of the seven continents, the equator, and the northern and southern hemispheres.
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Catch Comparison
Students compare the differences in catching four different pieces of equipment. They, in groups, practice catching the items, and discuss which one was the easiest and hardest to catch, and graph their results.
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Orienteering Scavenger Hunt
Students take a reading with a compass and use the compass to reach multiple checkpoints in a scavenger hunt activity.
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Life and Death Situations in Swimming
Students practice dealing with different water emergencies such as: "survival floating," and using a life preserver to pull others to safety.
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Badminton 4-Square
Students play badminton in a modified game situation. They practice various badminton strategies of attacking and defending space skills.
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First Aid Review
Young scholars create and play a game to demonstrate their understanding of the skills, cues, and strategies used in first aid.
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"Marble-ous" Hockey
Students demonstrate controlled striking skills with a hockey stick while attempting to hit a target.
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Disc Golf
Learners practice the skill of throwing a Frisbee while playing the game of disc golf.
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Partner Mile Run/Heart Rate Calculation
Students improve fitness, calculating target heart rates, and prepare for the mile run physical fitness test.
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State Partners
Students practice locating the 50 states on the US map, and move as a "team" throughout the general space.
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Spelling Free Throw (Elementary, Games)
Students run to the chalk board to spell a given word, pick up a basketball, dribble to the hoop and make one shot, run the basketball back to their starting place to score points for their team.
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USA State Tag / Mississippi River Shuffle
Learners are given the opportunity to play a tag game while studing geographical sites in the U.S.A. (relative to the Mississippi River or to other geographic features you may choose).
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Goalie Game
Students practice throwing and catching in a game situation and learn the skills of good defense and the ("ready" position, stay between goal and offense).