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Beach Ball Word Families
Second graders throw a beach ball to each other to play a game that helps them practice word families. In this word family lesson plan, 2nd graders throw a beach ball to each other and whatever part their thumb lands on, they look at the...
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Rebound Ball
Young scholars practice throwing and catching in teams while learning about rebound angles.
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Ten Points Football
Pupils practice hiking and passing a football. In this football lesson, students play a game to practice football skills. When a player hikes the ball to another player, and it is caught, a point is awarded. The pupils are divided into...
California Academy of Science
Banishing Bycatch
Bycatch is a sad reality for many sea turtles, dolphins, and sharks; it occurs when they get unintentionally caught in commercial fishing nets. The class plays a game using popcorn and crackers, each child will attempt to catch the...
California Academy of Science
Academy Seafood Market and Fishery
What fishing method is the most sustainable? Find out through a fun, but meaningful game in which your little fishermen use different techniques to see what they catch. After the fishing activity is over, there are several discussion...
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Doubles Tennis Baseball
Your Junior Highers use an alternative way to practice accuracy of their tennis strokes by playing a game similar to baseball. The purpose is to hit the ball away from your opponents, but within the lines.
Mr Gym
Street Alleys
Streets and alleys is a cat and mouse game wherein the cat is chasing and trying to capture the mouse. The fun part of this game is that the streets can turn in to alleys and the alleys can turn in to streets. This can be at times...
Mr Gym
Soccer Round-Up
Round-up as many soccer balls for your team as possible. Hula-Hoops are scattered about equal distance from the center spot. The older the players, the farther away the Hula-Hoops should be from the center spot. There should be enough...
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...
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Hop on Down the Bunny Trail
Students practice various locomotor skills at six different stations. They move a 'bunny' down a 'trail' to track their progress. All of the activities must be done as a group and stress teamwork and sportsmanship.
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Is That a Fact?
Fifth graders use physical activity to help them distinguish between facts and opinions. They are broken up into pairs and students give a fact or opinion (based on the call by the teacher) when the ball is bounced to them.
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Bean Bag - Throw And Catch
Students carry a bean bag with a teacher specified body part while traveling in and out of designated spaces. They practice tossing and catching the bag while moving and progress to playing catch with a partner.
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Soccer Practice Game for Warm-up And Conditioning
Students develop endurance and practice positioning skills for combination passing. They hit the opposing ¿¿fox¿¿ below the knees with a thrown ball. They continually reposition to provide passing options for the team-mate with the...
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Throw and Catch Tennis
Students practicewith a racket, to learn strategies for moving the ball around the court and the importance of placing the ball in different spots .
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Feature Columns: Navigating the Internet With Safe Sites for Students
Students explore, examine and study various Internet sites and become aware of the safest ones to access. They assess the site Safety Land to interact with an interactive city that teaches Internet safety. Each student helps the Safety...
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Tchoukball - Lesson 3 - Footwork and Passing
This third lesson plan in the Tchoukball unit is all about footwork and passing. In this lesson plan there are several drills to practice footwork as only three steps are allowed in regulation play. As the class works on footwork, they...
Mr Gym
Homerun Derby
Batter up! "Homerun Derby" is an activity to practice hitting a ball with a bat. Younger players should use a batting tee. Older players could have their own team pitcher or an opposing team pitcher. The goal is to just hit the ball for...
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Aches and Pains
Being able to distinguish between short and long vowel /a/ sounds is an important skill for young readers. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice reading...
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Team Handball
Students enter the gym and immediately stretch and perform warm up activities. They work in teams to play a game of handball. They practice to increase their competency in shooting the handball into the goal. Finally, they participate in...
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Soccer Fever Gets Hot
Students examine rules of soccer, focusing on basic skills necessary to play, create imaginary team, match players with positions that best fit their skill levels and personalities, and practice new skills with classmates.
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Pancakes, Anyone?
First graders explore data collecting and graphing. In this data collecting and graping lesson, 1st graders watch a video about monster who sells pancakes. Students make a graph to record the most popular pancake. Students also play...
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Mental Math for Adding Decimals
Fifth graders work in groups to practice adding decimals. In this adding decimals activity, 5th graders call out different money amounts to each other and mentally add the coins called out. Students take turns calling out and adding the...
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Football Mania
Students practice previously- learned throwing and catching skills and offensive/defensive strategies in a game-like situation.
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Jack Math Scramble
Students practice throwing and catching jacks to improve their hand-eye coordination. In groups, they participate in a variety of games in which they use the jacks to improve their problem solving skills. To end the lesson, they pick up...