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Social Studies: The Birth of Olympism
Students complete maps of Ancient Greece identifying key sites of the ancient Olympic games. After watching a video, they complete worksheets about the games and the athletes. Students discuss how the spirit of Ekecheiria, the "Sacred...
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Good Sportsmanship Leads to Home Run
Pupils share examples of good sportsmanship, then read a news article about a team helping an injured player score a home run. The teacher introduces the article with a discussion and vocabulary activity, then young scholars read the...
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Blanket Volleyball
Fifth graders participate in a game of blanket volleyball. In this sports lesson plan, 5th graders are divided into two teams and each have a blanket. Students catch the ball in the blanket and throw the ball by lifting the blanket.
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Flying Disk Golf
Students participate in flying disc golf. In this sports lesson, students use one hoop and a flying disk to land the disk in the hoop. Students play in partners.
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Scrabble Fitness
Hop, skip, and jump your way to picking up letters for a word spelling scrabble game. Get a little aerobic conditioning in while having fun with words. Keep the game simple for the younger learners. You might try putting the letters face...
Arizona Cooperative Extension
Geocaching
Using GPS units, small groups participate in a scavenger hunt to find an object that you have hidden. They use coordinates for stopping points along a pre-planned path to get to the final cache. This is a terrific activity to include in...
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Planet Oit!
Twelfth graders use this game to find minerals given rocks and outcrops in a plausible (but not real) geologic setting. They play without outside encouragement for hours as the world is fun to explore and the scoring system encourages...
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Mummy Ball
Learners practice their hand and eye coordination in a ball throwing activity. In this physical education lesson plan, students participate in a game where they sit in a circle and throw to each other only once until everyone has...
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My Bones
Pupils integrate physical activity while studying the names of the bones in the body in a fun game form. They feel the bone in their body as the story talks about it. After doing this, they form a circle and sing the words to the song...
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Consumerism
Seventh graders explain the concept of needs verses wants, influences on consumers, and advertising and relate those to making positive consumer choices. They break into small groups and plan a two-week day camp involving games and...
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Habitat Hunt
Students discover how hard it is for animals to find all the items needed in their habitat. In this habitat lesson, students play a game in which they pretend to be an animal, they discover that not all animals can find the food needed...
Polar Trec
Arctic Smorgasbord!
Two blooms of phytoplankton, instead of just one, now occur in the Arctic due to declining sea ice, which will have widespread effects on the marine life and climate. In small groups, participants build an Arctic food web with given...
Perkins School for the Blind
Beanbag Toss
Why is learning how to catch and toss so important? If one has visual impairments, learning this basic skill will help him increase orientation and mobility, coordination, and cognitive development,. Mastery of this skill will also mean...
Kenan Fellows
Gridiron Rescue: One Health Football Technology Project
Helmets not included! Scholars brainstorm adjustments and sensors to football helmets in an engineering design project to help prevent injuries, such as concussions and spinal injuries.
National Endowment for the Humanities
The Victor's Virtue: A Cultural History of Sport
Pupils explore the meaning of the ancient Greek word aretê and the place of virtue in historical athletic competition and modern sports. They begin by reading an informational text on the goal of sports in education, and then...
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All's Fair in Sport And Competition
Learners design a physical activity contest or game that has no cultural or gender biases which includes an assessment that ranks competitors according to the competitors abilities. They participate in and evaluate the newly designed...
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Fire and Ice
Students play a game of tag using soft balls to tag each other with. Music is incorporated in this lesson, which is designed to engage students in vigorous physical activity.
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Fire Chief
Young scholars 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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Basketball/Tumbling
Students play basketball games and show knowledge of offense and defense. In this basketball lesson plan, students also answer short answer questions about offense and defense.
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Fitness Pursuit
Young scholars participate in health-enhancing physical game of Trivial Pursuit and identify the benefits and effects of health related fitness.
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Team Handball
Students participate in a team handball game. In this physical education lesson, students are introduced to offensive strategies and implement them into the handball game. Students perform a stretching routine at the end of activity.
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Sportsmanship and Spectator Behavior
Sixth graders listen to the story BEING A BAD SPORT as teacher reads to the class. They identify good and bad sportsmanship by reading and writing activities. They then go to the gym and simulate a game situation recording examples of...
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Energy Tag
Learners explore how the blood flows and carries oxygent from the lungs to the heart and to the body to create energy after participating in chasing, fleeing and dodging activities. They actively move through an obstacle course...
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HOME SWEET HOME
Middle schoolers create and implement a schedule of activities designed to help their parents improve their physical conditions.