National Association for Sport & Physical Fitness
Indoor Physical Activity Ideas for Kids!
Rainy day schedule doesn't mean you can't stay fit! Use a collection of indoor physical activities during periods of inclement weather, substitute teaching days, or for those afternoons when your class just wants to move around!
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Soccer - Skeleton Outline
This worksheet goes directly along with a PowerPoint presentation called - Soccer Notes. You can find it on our Lesson Planet website. The class can take notes on the worksheet as the teacher shows the PowerPoint and talks about the...
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Theater Arts/Creative Movement Lesson Plan
Here is a series of five exercises intended to bring movement, dance, and theater into the classroom. Intended for special ed classes, but appropriate for any grade, learners will pantomime, play pretend, dance, move, and create...
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Mini Soccer
Practice all of those soccer skills you just taught in one fun activity. Divide the class into two teams. Each team then divides itself into three equal parts: goalies, fullbacks, and forwards. There are three soccer balls in play at the...
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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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Lower Grade Basketball Activities
Students demonstrate basic knowledge about how to use a basketball properly. The teaching of the lesson is done through modeling and students assessment is done with drilling and practice with the basketball activities.
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The Bike Riding Moose
What would you think if you saw a moose in a tree? Read about an impressive moose and practice using context clues with a cloze passage, which includes a word bank at the bottom of the pages for kids to reference.
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Swiss Ball Square Dance
Students use "Swiss Balls" to help them combine their movements into repeatable patterns.
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Basketball: Purposeful and Fun Fitness Activities
Studnets practice basketball skills. They combine cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, and strength fitness activities with skill practice and review of previously learned skills in the fitness development part of a basketball...
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Macarena Basketball Review
Learners review basketball skills and are challenged to perform specific shills to the beat of music.
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Upper Grade Basketball Activities
Third graders practice basketball skills with a variety of skills and games.
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Fitness 500
Learners play a game with a hula hoop, jump rope, and scooter that requires them to develop locomotor movements skills.
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Rhythmic Multiples
Students practice multiples of the numbers 1-9 and different manipulative skills such as clapping and snapping.
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3-Catch Basketball
Learners complete a 3-catch basketball activity to improve their basketball skills. In this basketball skills instructional activity, students participate in a 3-catch basketball activity with defense.
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Understanding the Key Points for Basketball Skills
Students work in pairs to help each other explain the purpose of the key points of basketball.
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A Spin On Fitness
Young scholars perform a variety of exercises pertaining to each component of fitness while working in a cooperative situation.
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Vegetable Munchers
Students are encouraged to eat healthy foods. Theyare able to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy foods.Students travel in different pathways, and levels,while learning to make healthy food choices.
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Measuring Lab
Middle schoolers explain the importance of using standardized measuring cups and spoons by preparing a recipe using inaccurate and misunderstood measurements.
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Shoot and Score
Students practice accurately kicking a ball. In this gross motor skills lesson, students practice kicking a ball through the legs of a classmate, who is the "goal".
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basketball golf
Eighth graders practice shooting basketballs at a hoop and keep track of their own score.
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Easter Basket Bonanza
Students pass a soccer ball under control so they explain the force necessary to reach a target.
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Signers Search
Students take part in an activity that allows them to learn the names and some interesting facts about the signers of the Declaration of Independence while having fun and participating in physical activity.
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Scrambled Eggs and Dead Bugs
Students practice movement by pretending be scrambled eggs, and dead bugs. They dance, skip, gallop, walk etc . . . when music plays, and stop when it does not.
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Math Hook Up
Students practice moving different ways with different locomotor skills. They practice addition and subtraction problems.