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Making Good Choices: A Role Play Activity
Role play is a great way to get kids thinking about a wide variety of topics. Have them explore making good choices. Here, they are presented with several scenarios and then must work in groups to develop a short role-play describing...
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Football-2 Minute Drill
Students participate in two minute drills throwing and catching a football. In this football instructional activity, the students are divided into teams and pass the football at various distances. The students may rotate their team roles...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Comprehension: Text Analysis, Fact or Opinion Football
Touchdown! Try out this game to help your learners differentiate between fact and opinion. In pairs, pupils switch off reading cards to one another. Learners determine if the sentences on the cards are facts or opinions and continue...
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Prayer and Friday Night Lights? An Establishment Clause Case from Texas
Is a Christian prayer before a Friday night football game a nice gesture or the imposition of religion on the rest of the community? A resource asks the question using a clip from the popular movie "Friday Night Lights" and readings...
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3 Position Pass Patterns
Learners play a passing game to familiarize themselves with pass patterns and the roles of the quarterback, center, and receivers on a football team,
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To teach s
Young scholars learn offensive and defensive strategies in flag football and work on passing, catching, and defending.
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Pass for Points
Students participate in offensive and defensive strategies in flag football and work on passing, catching, and defending.
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Internet Research in Physical Education
Students take an active role for their own exploration. They are given the tools that enable them to find information about a specific topic on their own. Students choose from the different units that they have studied at the time:...
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American Idol Tag
Pupils role play their favorite judge and chase the other students to try to take their flag football flags away. Then they travel around the gym freely trying not to lose their flags. Pupils who lose their flags help the judges to...
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Air It Out
Students practice throwing a football. In this sports lesson, students work in partners to complete passes until they score a touchdown. Students earn one point for each touchdown.
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Typecasting Roles
Students read and discuss various news articles where an element of surprise was present about the criminal and the crime. They research a news story, present the information in the form of a newscast, and write an opinion piece.
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Teaming Up on Health Care
Use this political cartoon handout to help pupils understand the role the Blue Dog Coalition plays with regard to Health Care Reform. Football is used metaphorically to represent a player (Blue Dogs) tackling someone on his team (Obama)....
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Creating Interesting Characters
What makes a story interesting? Complex characters! As part of a series of worksheets that prepares middle schoolers to write their own novel, the exercises included explain the role of the protagonist, the antagonist, and the supporting...
Macmillan Education
People Management
Introduce your pupils to the invaluable life skill of team and project management. Through worksheets, discussion, and role-playing activities, learners practice using tactful language, explore various management styles, and identify...
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The lesson: Walter Tull
Students explore the accomplishments of Walter Tull. In this role models instructional activity, students track the news about celebrities for a week. Students compare the news about he celebrities to the achievements of Walter Tull,...
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Mobile Phones
In this mobile phones worksheet, students fill out a chart about mobile phones, answer short answer questions, role play, and more. Students complete 5 activities.
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The Leed's footballers' trial
Learners explore what happens when someone is tried for a crime. They expand their knowledge of the name "Criminal Justice System" and develop discussion skills. Students read the story Leeds footballer guilty of fighting in public. ...
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Sports Lesson Plan
Have your class participate in a variety of sports and craft activities using this resource. With sports as the theme, learners work on art projects. Students create soccer ball prints, a three dimensional football, and a sports collage.
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Football Hooliganism
Students evaluate the problm of hooliganism and its possible solutions. Through videos and news stories, students analyze examples of hooliganism. They discuss the problem and ways to help stop the violence.
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Role Playing for Fluency
Students explore the benefits of rereading a story to increase their oral reading speed, fluency, and comprehension. They work with a partner reading the story "What Will the Seal Eat?" They time and encourage each other in each...
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Gender and Sport
Serena Williams, Mia Hamm, and Danica Patrick are living proof that women enjoy sports just as much as men. Sports enthusiasts read about the importance of gender equality on the playing field. They discover barriers to participation and...
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The Many Faces of Paul Robeson
Students discuss and construct timelines based on the life of author/performer/Civil Right's activist, Paul Robeson. They view photographs of him at various times in his life and discuss the roles he may have been playing at those times.
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Angling for Distance
Explore the concept of projectile distance through determining the angle that will provide the maximum distance of a launched projectile. Students launch baseballs on a football field and video tape the path of the ball.
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Worm Watching
Students examine the role earthworms play in building soils. They discuss worms and what they do with soil, make predictions and draw pictures, and observe their worms in soil over a two week period.