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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Who Let the Frogs Out?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This activity requires students to practice throwing, catching, and jumping as they "Leap," intro spring. At different stations throughout the gym, students participate in various activities related to frogs: playing leap frog, jumping...
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Pe Central: Ghostbusters (Tossing & Catching Scarves)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students not only practice tossing and catching in this activity, but will also use their creativity as they create and demonstrate their own "ghost" tricks.
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Catch the Science Bug: Insect Observation Investigation [Pdf]

For Students K - 1st
Activity encourages kids to locate insects and record data about observations they make about insects that live in their area, then research the animal to find out new facts about it.
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Catch the Science Bug: Colors in a Leaf [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 6th
Activity involves collecting leaves to compare green leaves with fall leaves that have changed color. Students will record data on an observation sheet.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Baseball

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention provides baseball information on the kind of equipment you will need to get started, how to play it safe, some fun facts, and a quick tip guide to help you hit, throw, and catch the ball.
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Gympanzees: Hand/eye Coordination

For Teachers Pre-K - K
This page contains hand eye coordination exercises, games, videos, and activities for children and young people with all abilities and disabilities. Also includes a great video to encourage handwashing skills.
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Terc: Catching Sunshine

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A hands-on challenge to build a solar collector to investigate how much the air temperature inside the collector goes up. Site includes information for teachers and students. Teachers page include time requirement, materials needed, the...
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SEDL

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory: Spiders

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
This detailed lesson, designed to integrate mathematics, science and language arts, explores the world of the spider. Through a variety of learning activities, students will learn about spider characteristics, their life cycle, their...
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Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Case of the Mysterious Money Trail

For Students K - 1st Standards
Pat Tern has been buying items all around town using counterfeit money. Help Math Maven identify a pattern to catch her before she deposits fake money into the Cashflow Bank.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Football Bingo

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a fun activity through which middle schoolers not only practice football skills like passing, hiking, catching, dodging, and carrying, but also get an aerobic workout. "Football Bingo" combines football, bingo, and...
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Catch the Science Bug: Animal Observation Investigation [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 6th
Activity encourages kids to collect and record data about observations they make about animals that live in their area then research the animal to find out new facts about it.
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Pe Central: Throw Hard!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Practice throwing overhand while properly positioning your body and going through "the full range of the throwing motion." This website links to PE Central Overhand Throwing Cues (which provides simple steps on overhand throwing), and...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Influenza: The Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a list of "flu-like symptoms," learn who is at risk for developing the flu, and read about how the flu is spread. This website also provides a chart showing "peak months for flu activity" and advice for treating the flu and flu...
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Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Dude, You Gotta Move: Biomes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Local headlines announce that everyone must move due to contaminated soil. Check out the one catch before students discover what is already known about biomes and what still needs to be understood about them to complete this classroom...
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Catching Sunshine

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Teachers can enroll their class in this online 'Science-athon.' Students design and build a solar collector, and over a period of several days, collect data and enter it into an online database.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sq3 R Reading Technique

For Students 6th - 8th
Click through nine informative, eye-catching slides to learn how to use the SQ3R reading method to improve attentiveness and comprehension.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Get the Word Out at Mc Donalds!

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Students take part in a hypothetical scenario that challenges them to inform customers at a local restaurant of how their use and disposal of plastics relates/contributes to the Great Pacific garbage patch (GPGP). What students...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Build Your Own Insect Trap

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this hands-on activity students design a trap to catch a fictional insect. They must build the trap based on things they learn about the insect.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bumps and Bruises

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about the role engineers play in creating protective gear for sports. Students then build a protective landing pad to catch a dropped egg without it breaking
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Football

For Students 3rd - 6th
Here you can find some great information about the sport of football! Learn what kind of equipment you'll need to get started, how to play it safe, some basic football moves throwing a ball, catching a ball, etc.), and some fun facts!
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PE Central

Pe Central: Balloon Toss

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Introduce young children to tossing and catching using a series of activities involving punch-ball balloons (durable balloons that move slowly in the air). Included are ideas for assessing students' activity and for adapting the lesson...
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PE Central

Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Grocery Bag Fun

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners practice tossing and catching a simple, inexpensive object--a plastic garbage bag, ideal for young children learning to catch.
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PE Central

Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Zoo Parade Days

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students able to throw and catch, and who are able to shoot and pass a basketball are ready to play "Zoo Parade Day." This activity requires students to work in different "centers" or stations throughout the gym and to demonstrate...
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: No Racket Tennis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through this lesson, young scholars able to throw and catch a ball learn the proper scoring rules and positioning of players on a tennis court. Includes ideas for keeping the activity safe.

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