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Hula Hoop Together
Students use hula hoops and music to develop a motor skill. When the music stops students should find a blue hoop. This is also a good activity for socializaiton.
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Cartoon Challenge
Students practice locomotor movements and space awareness while reinforcing knowledge of living and non-living things learned from the classroom.
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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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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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Locomotor License
Students examine and practice what it means to travel safely within a given space. They are given licenses and can receive traffic violations if they break the rules.
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Christmas Shopping
Young scholars work in teams in teams of two and they have a hula hoop which represents their shopping bag and two hockey sticks to gather presents. They use the other side of the gym that has bean bags and fleece balls, which are...
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Math Challenge
Young scholars, using laminated math flash cards, play a review game with a partner. Also using Polyspots, they run, walk, or skip to the board with their answers.
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Change Mixer
Students use their abilities to recognize coins and their values in this game that focuses on locomotor skills (skip, slide, gallop, run, jump). This game also requires students to add coin values.
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Scootin', Sounds & Sorting
Students work together while they use various locomotor skills to practice beginning sounds of words and the letters of the alphabet. They walk, run, skip, gallop (or any locomotor skill that the teacher requires be used) alongside the...
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Madagascar Tag
Students play a tag game. They are divided into zoo keepers, penguins, and lions. Each group has different responsibilities such as skipping, galloping, and jumping. Students perform different locomotor skills each time they are tagged.
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Recyclign Quest
Students integrate the concept of recycling in to an aerobic activity. After being divided into two classes of students; recyclers and litterers, students participate in activities related to their designation. Students practice...
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Madagascar Tag
Students review the rules of Madagascar Tag and choose three students to be zoo keepers and the rest of the students are Penguins. They perform different locomotor skill each time they are tagged until all have been tagged and the game...
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Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan
Third graders study Thanksgiving. In this physical education and spelling activity, 3rd graders play a race game by being the first group who can spell the word Thanksgiving first.
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Mended Hearts, Broken Hearts, Healthy Hearts, Half-Hearted
Students integrate locomotor movements with nutrition information. They solve simple math functions related to the calories-per-gram contents of each nutrient and perform fitness activities to match the number of calories contained in...
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Frosty the Snowman
Students travel in the playing area (skip, gallop, walk, slide, etc.). If a student is tagged by a red (sun) ball, the tagged student must stop and fall slowly like a melting snowman. They stays melted until he/she is tagged by a green...
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Physical Education: Exercising to Music
Third graders design exercise routines to perform to music. Music that can be used includes, "Bridge of Avignon," "Pop Goes the Weasel," and "Gustaf's Skoal." Locomotor skills practice in the routines are: skipping, leaping, sliding,...
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Zesty Kicken' Chicken Dance
Pupils become aware of spatial awareness as they stand in the middle of a hula hoop and perform "The Chicken Dance" to music. During the chorus, they run, hop, gallop, skip into other vacant hoops. Students follow directions given by the...
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Math Munchers
Students identify the ones and tens values of a two digit number, while practicing chasing, fleeing, and dodging skills.
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Listen, Look, and Move!
First graders are introduced to the movement and singing game "Skip to My Lou". They identify several locomotor activities to perform with the song.
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Scrambled Eggs
Students spread out in their own personal space within a play area. They respond to different kinds of commands to play the game related to different ways of cooking eggs. This looks like lots of fun.
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Aztec Dance
Seventh graders study Aztec dance to learn about their culture and civilization. In this Aztec study instructional activity, 7th graders watch a video of Aztec dancers and describe the dance on an index card. Students visit a website to...
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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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Cheeto Tag
Students practice motor skills while playing this variation of tag. They learn the importance of hand washing in the activity.
