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Physical Education - Gallop

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice galloping. In this gross motor skills lesson, students review how to jump and hop using a jump-rope and hopscotch. The teacher shows the steps to gallop and they hold a noodle and pretend as if they are riding a horse. 
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Review of Locomotor Skills/Lang.Art/Art/Math

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars study locomotor skills. In this physical activity lesson, students listen to the story known as Rainbow Fish and make a Rainbow Fish together using locomotor skills. 
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The Baby Elephant Walk

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Young scholars use the song Baby Elephant Walk to practice following a steady beat. In this coordinated movement lesson, students discuss baby elephants and their movements. Young scholars listen to the song 'Baby Elephant Walk' and...
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Pass it Around

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners participate in body awareness activities by lying in a large circle and passing a ball. In this body awareness lesson, students lie in a large circle and pass a ball in multiple fashions to improve their motor skills, problem...
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Recycled Robots

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create recycled art. In this visual art lesson, students use recycled products to assemble robotic pieces of art. Students also write stories about their robots.
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Hummingbird Maze

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this motor skills worksheet, students solve a maze that helps a hummingbird find some flowers. Students may color the pictures of the hummingbird and the flowers when they finish.
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Challenge Courses

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students engage in and invent a variety of organized outdoor play activities to encourage cooperation and motor development. In this outdoor activities lesson plan, students are divided into three groups and organized in lines. Students...
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Fine Motor Skills

For Students 6th - 8th
In this health worksheet, students find the terms in the word search that are applied to the application of fine motor skills. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Targeting an Action

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore how the brain how the brain infers the position of a moving target. They investigate how the brain can fine-tune its motor control over the muscle groups that will perform the intended action. Students participate in a...
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Germ Busters

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners discuss importance of cleanliness, specifically hand-washing, in fighting germs and illness. They create cultures of their hands before washing, and then practice proper hand-washing technique.
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Handy Dandy Handwriting

For Teachers 1st
First graders participate in an activity to improve their fine motor skills. Using a worksheet, they practice writing the letters of the alphabet. They also practice writing the words of the month in their best handwriting.
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Rock and Roll Play

For Teachers All
Students practice using their motor skills with music. They are divided into two teams and rock and roll depending on the music. They may practice other motor skills in this lesson as well.
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Strength

For Teachers 1st - 5th
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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How to Bounce a Ball

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students practice bouncing a basketball with their right and left hands as well as running while bouncing.
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Beanbag Toss

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore physical education by participating in a class game. In this bean bag toss lesson, students utilize masking tape to create targets which they launch bean bags into from far away. Students collaborate in groups to compete...
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Physical Interdisciplinary Activity

For Teachers K
Students discover directions and their motor skills by participating in a physical education activity.  In this direction following lesson, students are asked to perform certain physical actions all at once and with the teacher's...
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Art Studio

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students collaborate with their classmates to create a sculpture with the provided materials in order to cultivate fine motor and social skills. In this collaborative art lesson plan, students work in small groups to design the pedestal...
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Vocational: Observation of Children

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, pursuing childcare careers, discover the purposes and procedures for observing children. After examining various Websites, they construct electronic portfolios which are available for parents to inspect. Finally, students...
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Locomotor License

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine and practice what it means to travel safely within a given space. They are given licenses and can receive traffic violations if they break the rules.
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Alphabet Soup

For Teachers K - 5th
Students play a game in which they use the letters of the alphabet and different motor skills for review.
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Sunshine and Snowflakes

For Teachers K - 1st
Students play a variation of freeze tag starting with two snowflakes that can freeze others. To become unfrozen students are tagged by sunshine students.