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Forming Groups
Students create groups (teams) the way a teacher hopes they -- various different ideas are presented.
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Healthy Haunted House
Students participate in a fitness activity that relates to the time of year. They rotate to stations participating in P.E. activities with seasonal names.
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Throw Everything
Students throw objects overhand into containers in the center of the playing area.
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Lights, Camera, Action
Students learn the rules and protocols for the physical education classroom by videotaping scenarios from the PE classroom.
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Fitness/Strength Conditioning Mini-lesson
Students describe a piece of strength conditioning equipment, what muscle (or muscles) are isolated, and how strengthening this muscle improve skill performance in the unit they are presently taking.
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Small/Large Sided Games Assessment
Students play two versions of soccer--one with a full team and one with only two or three players. Then they assess they physical effects of both games--their heart rates, etc.
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Pata Pata Pat Pat
Pupils are exposed to the arts with a simple, introductory rhythm/dance activity which can lead into the traditional Pata Pata folk dance, or dance in general.
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Geographical Distance Skating
Middle schoolers get a cardiovascular workout while applying geographical concepts and processes by keeping track of mileage traveled from location to location until reaching the state capital.
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Ridgerunner
Students jog at the beginning of the class while learning about the Appalachian Trail. They integrate math into the lesson by adding up how many miles they have run, and comparing it to distances on a real trail map.
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Small-sided Soccer Skill Baseball
Middle schoolers participate in a lead up game that emphasizes practicing all of the basic soccer skills (e.g., correct punting, dribbling, trapping and passing.)
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Fitness Four Square
Students play the common game of Four Square while incorporating fitness into the activity. They participate a variety of exercises that work on strength and flexibility.
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Olympic Sprint Training
Students observe and analyze their partner while they run fast, and teach each other up to eight cues to improve speed and technique.
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Migrating Math
Young scholars practice estimating distance traveled while walking. Also can be used to introduce backpacking/hiking or as a daily warm-up. Measure the blacktop/cafeteria/playground, then determine how many times around make a mile.
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Forehand Ground Stroke Peer Assessment
Students identify if their peers are using the correct cues when performing the forehand ground stroke in tennis. They get in groups of 3. One person be the observer; one be the tosser.
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Swimming Survivor Challenge IV
Students practice using a mask, snorkel, and fins to collect items from the bottom of a pool.
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Fitness Pursuit
Students participate in health-enhancing physical game of Trivial Pursuit and identify the benefits and effects of health related fitness.
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Basketball Assessment: Right/Left Hand Dribble
Students see if they can identify if their peers are using the correct cues when dribbling a basketball.
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Safety Lesson
Students review or introduce personal safety concepts in a variety of areas common to the lives of students.
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Genes and Heredity
Students identify different traits and whether the traits are inherited or acquired.
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Dueling Bumpers
Middle schoolers get an opportunity to show control of force and accuracy using a volleyball bump.
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Service Anyone?
Students practice an overhand serve in both the deuce and the ad courts. They focus on having the proper grip, cues such as having a stiff wrist, and practicing a follow through.
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Halloween Carnival
Students, in order to participate in the carnival, dress out and participate in a Fitness Activity for the day, e.g., 2 minute jog, warm-up by stretching, etc.