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Watch Out!

For Teachers 1st
First graders experiment with different sized balls and an incline plane to study how a heavy object push a lighter object. They examine the safety message of this lesson by showing their drawings of the crossbuck sign.
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Learning Lesson: Atmospheric Collisions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students participate in a demonstration showing how rain drops grow by coalescence. They use ping pong balls and put them in an air stream. They end the lesson discussing flash flood safety.
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Physical Education: Kicking in Australian Rules Football

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Pupils practice kicking skills for Australian Rules Football. the drills are designed to improve ball control, kicking, and marking skills. In pairs. they kick or flip the ball to each other.
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What Goes Up Must Come Down!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students hypothesize about the nature of falling objects, design an experimental test to answer the question using everyday objects, analyze data to form conclusions, and infer that mass does not affect the speed of falling objects. This...
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CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students study the Conservation of Momentum.  For this momentum lesson students use the Conservation of Momentum to determine the velocity of a tennis ball as it comes out of a cannon. 
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Foot Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners use a yarn or fleece ball. On the signal (whistle, music) students move around trying to hit as many different classmates feet as possible.
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Fire and Ice

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students play a game of tag using soft balls to tag each other with. Music is incorporated in this lesson, which is designed to engage students in vigorous physical activity.
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Hungry Hungry Hippos

For Teachers K
Students play a game in which they use scooter boards to impersonate hippos. They gather balls and place them into a bucket while remaining on the scooter boards.
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Speedball

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work as a team in a game of Speedball. They are taught to value the benefits of physical activity as they investigate a new sport. Students successfully participate in a game of Speedball after participating in a drill that...
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Bouncing Basketballs

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students discover how the coefficient of restitution is applied to sports by measuring the bounciness of a ball. After examining the mathematical equation that applies to coefficient of restitution, students go to the gym, measure the...
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Benchball

For Teachers K - 5th
Students are taught ball skills and spatial awareness. They are divided into two teams. Students nominate one player to stand on the bench in their half of the court. They then arrange themselves anywhere in thier half of the court. ...
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6-8 Meter Madness

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students identify time signatures, the down beat, and begin to understand conducting patterns. In this meter patterns lesson, students identify the signs for 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 and play an excerpt from a song. Students use tennis balls to...
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Snow Caterpillar

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create a snow caterpillar. In this craft lesson, students roll five snow balls for the caterpillar's head and body. They use sticks and tennis balls for the antennas and lemons for eyes. 
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Crab Monsters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice the skill of dribbling a ball with their feet and kicking it in a specific direction.
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Stinger Tag

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, in teams, use an assigned color ball to hold as they move and tag.
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Superstar Bowling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn the proper cues of rolling or bowling a ball and at the same time reinforcing cooperation and spelling skills.

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