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Character Traits in Fables

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Combining art, music, dance, and reading comprehension, this lesson is geared to reach all ability levels. After reading a variety of fables and discussing story elements and character traits, class members select a moral to use as the...
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Sentences In Motion

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Explore the elements needed to make up a sentence (the sentence itself, the period, the comma, the question mark, and the exclamation point), with this language arts lesson. A loco-motor activity is embedded in the teaching of the...
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Physical Education Word of the Week

For Teachers K - 5th
Practice physical education vocabulary in your classroom. Working with language arts teachers, learners use dictionary skills to define and explain a word dealing with a concept in physical education. They also complete a task and have...
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Observing Connections: Art, Poetry, and the Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Pupils write poems. In this language arts lesson, students view the works of Edward Hicks. Pupils write a poem and illustration based on the style of Edward Hicks.
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Art Transitions: Morphs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars identify artistic expression by participating in a morph activity. In this art analysis lesson, students identify the work of Keith Haring and examine some of his flip books. Young scholars practice creating artistic...
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Play Ball: A Major League Review Game

For Teachers K - 12th
Apply the game of baseball to a fun review activity. Pupils earn a "base" for each subject question that they answer correctly. This activity can be modified and used for any subject area, including math, social studies, and language arts.
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Dancing Levels in Space

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners practice mirroring human moves by performing a dance in class.  In this physical education lesson, students utilize different spaces around them to perform a dance expressing their full motion.  Learners cooperate in pairs or...
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Special Message--What Makes Any Athlete a Winner?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts worksheet, students read 18 clues and fit the answers into the word grid. All words have 4 letters. After completing the puzzle a secret message will be revealed that pertains to athletics.
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Soccer Acrostic Poem

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts and sports worksheets, students use the letters in SOCCER to begin each line of an acrostic poem about soccer.
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Team Up for Sports Marketing

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Young scholars choose a sport and promote a real or imaginary team by creating press releases, business cards, and ads or commercials.
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Create Your Own Classroom Olympic Games

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students create their own version of the Olympic Games. They compete in the games of their choice and keep score.
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Self and General Space in Dance

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore the different themes and strategies of dancing by performing in class.  In this physical education instructional activity, students practice moving specific joints and muscles as they train to perform a dance.  Students...
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Modify My Action

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders listen to directions as they perform a theatrical role.  For this vocabulary lesson, 3rd graders listen to and observe the adjectives given to them during a practice of their performance by the director.  Students identify...
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Scrabble Fitness

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Hop, skip, and jump your way to picking up letters for a word spelling scrabble game. Get a little aerobic conditioning in while having fun with words. Keep the game simple for the younger learners. You might try putting the letters face...
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Olympic Report Planner

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Use this worksheet to research a future or past olympian. There's a space for researchers to brainstorm things they'd like to know, a space for them to record notes, and a KWL chart. There's also an open space to write a cumulative...
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The Kid Who Could Play Tennis

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this reading a biography learning exercise, students first read a six paragraph passage about the tennis player Arthur Ashe. Students answer 8 multiple choice questions about the text. This is an on-line interactive learning exercise.
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Favorite Sports and Athletes: an Introduction to Sports Media

For Teachers K - 3rd
Even young children watch sports and like team logos and products. It's never too early to think critically about what's onscreen. This exercise develops awareness that media communicate values (i.e. who participates in sports and who...
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Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pair your reading of Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows with the questions and activities provided here. Learners answer questions about the text, create story maps, put together brochures, relate math to the story, practice some...
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Roger Robot

For Teachers K - 3rd
Read the story of Roger Robot included in the lesson and have kids move creatively by interpreting how a robot might move. Read a part of the story, then stop and let the class act it out. Read some more, and let them move some more....
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Integrating the Craft of Writing into Physical Education

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Incorporate writing into your physical education class. In groups, learners unscramble a list of words related to exercise and use them in their journal writings. Using their name, they write one word related to physical activity that...
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Scooter Fun!

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts worksheet, students analyze 14 words in a word bank that pertain to scooters. Students locate each word in the word search puzzle that is in the shape of a scooter.
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Baseball Word Search

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts and sports worksheet, students analyze 20 words in a word bank that pertain to the game of baseball. Students find these in a word search puzzle.
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Hula How?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders start writing papers with much more regularity than they did in the previous grades. They are starting to differentiate between the styles of writing and know why each is important. This activity gives the them a chance to...
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Re-Name That Tune

For Teachers K - 5th
Students select a familiar children's tune and redesign it by rewriting the lyrics, writing a play, a dance, a storybook or a puppet show. Students work in groups and share their finished project with their classmates.

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