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Volleyball Work It Out

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice volleyball skill-related activities while working on cardiovascular and muscular endurance.
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Soccer Tennis

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars volley a soccer ball in a dynamic environment in teams of 3-6 players.
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Motion Capture and Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students capture the serve motion of a tennis player with a digital or video camera. Using transparencies or a software package, analyze the speed, acceleration, displacement and time of the racquet head and ball in the tennis stroke.
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Ghostbuster Dribble

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils practice dribbling and passing fundamentals using the appropriate cues.
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Enlightening Explorations, Part II

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders review their results from the previous experiments. After viewing a kaleidoscope, they make their own pattern on paper and describe the role of light. To end the lesson, they examine light being relfected and refracted and...
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Bowl-a-rama

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice rolling a ball to a target and learn various bowling terms and rules.
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Dribble Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students practice dribbling with their one hand while staying away from the designated taggers.
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Stayin' Alive

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners pick an object of their choice based on their ability to kick. The object is not to touch the ground. Group sizes vary within the activity.
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Updrafts in Action

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars examine how wind can suspend rain and hail in clouds. They focus on safety precautions they can take to protect them from the hazards of thunderstorms.
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Energy

For Teachers K
Students are introduced to the concept of energy. After observing a demonstration, they identify the sources of heat and the ways heat can change objects. In groups, they travel between stations to view different demonstrations dealing...
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Basketball - Shooting

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students practice dribbling a basketball. They perform activities requiring walking, running, use of left and right hand. Students explore proper posture when dribbling. They experience the art of a progressive cross over. Students...
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Paper Pool

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students analyze the measurements of rectangles. In this analysis lesson, students will investigate patterns by looking at ratios. Students will also hypothesize the probability of a ball going into a certain pocket when playing pool....
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Hula Hoop Dribbling

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice and improve their ability to consistently dribble a ball, using cues previously introduced.
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Macarena Basketball Review

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students review the basketball skills learned in class and are challenged to perform specific skills to the beat of the music.
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PEC: Lesson Plans for Physical Education

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice passing skills in a team setting using basketbal chest pass, basketball bounce pass, inside of the foot soccer pass.
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Shape Toss

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students get a bounce ball and find a Polyspot. On the teacher's signal, students underhand throw to a target. They keep their own score: one point each time they hit a target.
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Candyland Fitness

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore physical fitness by incorporating a class game into their sport activities. In this physical education lesson, students draw cards in a similar style to the game Candyland, except these cards instruct the students to...
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Reflections of a Quadratic Function

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are asked to explain the relationship between f(s) and f (-x). They are asked to determine how the equation of f(x) differs from the equation of f(-x). Students determine the conditions when f(x) is the same as f(-x). They graph...
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Funny Putty

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students study that colloids are mixtures which display the properties of more than one of these states.
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Hybrid Sport

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice playing a net sport similiar to volleyball. They work together to score more points than the other team. They make suggestions about who to change the game as well.
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Blast's Cosmic Carnival

For Teachers K - 4th
Students, after analyzing the history of a concentrator, model how a Genesis spacecraft concentrator works by playing a game. In groups of three or four, after being given materials to work with, are challenged to roll the rubber balls...
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GIF Animation

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students are introduced to how to create GIF animations using different software programs. Individually, they must make their own animated bouncing ball and in further lessons make more difficult objects. They present their animations...
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Now That's a Problem!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Help learners improve multiplication skills by skip counting and creating their own multiplication word problems. They will begin by practicing skip counting and then illustrate word problems using a software program. Pixie is a software...
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Free Shot Physics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils discuss ways to test the bounciness of different balls. In this physics instructional activity, students measure how high each one bounce. They record data and compare results.