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William Tell Gallop
Students develop the skill of galloping in order to participate in more complex physical activities.
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States and Capitals Activity
Students explore states and capitals. In this U.S. geography lesson, students practice locomotor skills playing Freeze Tag. Students generate the matching capital when given a specific state name in order to continue the game.
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Frog Pond
Students practice the locomotor movements of skipping, galloping, hopping, jumping, etc. They gain practice in moving safely through general space.
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Bean Bag Shuffle
Students practice their locomotor skills. They are introduced to locomotor skills (skipping, galloping, etc). Students start with a bean bag in their hand. They begin on the teacher's signal to begin their locomotor skill, moving in...
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Strength
Students participate in static and dynamic activities to develop muscle strength and balance. Free weights are used to work on shoulder, bicep, and tricep muscles. Locomotor skills of hopping, jumping, leaping, skipping, and galloping...
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Survivors
Young scholars practice locomotor skills. In this physical education lesson, students practice eight different skills - walk, run, leap, jump, hop, gallop, slide, and skip. They answer a social studies question and then complete the skill.
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Getting Started with Traveling
Students are introduced to the basic traveling skills of walking, marching, galloping, and skipping while helping them to explain the concept of general space.
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Driving Warmup
Pupils respond to various cues and "drive" around while warming up. Cues such as "speed limit" correspond to walking around at normal speed. "Bumpy Road" corresponds to skipping, etc.
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Fire Chief
Students respond to motion cues from the "Fire Chief" (teacher). In this physical education lesson, students participate in a fire safety game which promotes locomotor skills.
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Little Sliders
Second graders travel though general space using correct form for the locomotor movements of walk, jog, jump, skip, hop, gallop, and slide.
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Movin', Groovin', and Gettin' Strong
Children can do almost anything to music, so get them up and moving, working out and strengthening some major muscle groups. Using exercise bands provides some resistance, which makes the muscles work a little harder. With this lesson...
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Mexican Culture “La Raspa”
Here are three lessons that work together to engage learners in a cultural and musical exploration. In lesson plan one the listen to the Mexican folk song, "La Raspa" and discuss cultural context. In lesson plan two they dance along to...
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Number Line Locomotion
Here is a great lesson that incorporates movement into academic learning. Students improve addition subtraction skills by using number lines and locomotor movement.
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Hoop Jumper
Students get practice jumping using three different types of jumping patterns.
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Frosty's Freeze Tag
Students improve their chasing, fleeing and dodging skills in a cooperative, fun, holiday game using white (fleece) snowballs.
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Frosty's Freeze Tag
Students participate in a holiday P.E. tagging game involving chasing, fleeing, and dodging skills. With the taggers holding a fleece ball (snowball), they chase and tag the other students, with the tagged students becoming unfrozen by...
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Fire Chief
Pupils practice locomotor movements while pretending to be "firemen" at "fire stations". In this movement lesson, students stand in hoola hoops representing their fire station. They practice 8 different locomotor movements while...
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"It's the Great Pumpkin" Game
Students demonstrate the ability to perform a variety of locomotor movements and body shapes. The student book "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" is used with this lesson.
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Rhythmic Ribbons
Students practice various locomotor skills and to provide students with the opportunity to experiment with movement to music.
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Follow the Leader
Students move in different directions and pathways using a variety of locomotor skills, while building on cooperative play skills used when leading or following a partner.
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Grammar Quest
Students participate in an activity that helps them to explain parts of speech and distinguish between them. They also use different locomotor skills in a variety of ways.
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Rockin' Robin
Students practice weight transfer skills to the song "Rockin' Robin." students warm-up with this activity during a tumbling unit.
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Four-Corner Cartoon Traveling
Learners practice moving safely in a general space and travel using a variety of locomotor movements in this variation of the game Four Corners.
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Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan- Math
Learners perform locomotor movement. In this locomotor skills lesson, students practice running, hopping, skipping, and walking then form themselves into groups based on a number called out. Learners identify if more or less students...