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Field Dodge Ball
Set up two teams, one in the field throwing the ball, and the other who will be running through the field to try to score a run. The running team forms two lines behind an endline and the first player in line must run across the field...
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Medical War Ball/ Civil War
Eighth graders play Medical War Ball. In this Civil War lesson, 8th graders research the role of women in the Civil War as nurses. They play dodge ball with slightly different rules to incorporate a nurse on each team.
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Pokemon Are Smart and Healthy
Students play a dodge-ball type game (with bean bags) as they perform a number of mental math and physical challenges.
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Planet Invasion
Students apply what they have learned about chasing/fleeing/ dodging in a game situation.
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Football Bingo
Students develop the football skills of passing, hiking, catching, and dodging by playing game related to Bingo. They participate in variations of the game.
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USA State Tag / Mississippi River Shuffle
Students are given the opportunity to play a tag game while studing geographical sites in the U.S.A. (relative to the Mississippi River or to other geographic features you may choose).
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Speedball
This is not your typical soccer activity. The basic rules of soccer are used with some flag football adaptations thrown in. When the ball is on the ground, play by the standard soccer rules, but when the ball goes into the air, a player...
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Soccer - Lesson 12 - Passing
Soccer lesson 12 focuses on reviewing and practicing the skills of passing, passing on the move, making accurate passes to have a shot on goal. It is imperative to learn good passing skills to be successful in soccer. After all, players...
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Letter Tag
Students play a chasing, fleeing, dodging freeze tag game while practicing identifying words that begin with a specific letters.
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Foot Tag
Students 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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Football Bingo
Students develop the football skills of passing, hiking, catching, and dodging. Student practice skills using a variation of Bingo.
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Couch Potato
Show your class that being active is more fun than being a couch potato! A fun tag game teachers learners about making healthy eating choices. Over 125,000 teachers have reviewed this activity, and many have written comments about how...
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Touchdown Tag
Learners broken into teams try to score a touchdown having to get through another team first. They have flags and change positions many times throughout the game.