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Cartoon Challenge

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils practice locomotor movements and space awareness while reinforcing knowledge of living and non-living things learned from the classroom.
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Clothes on the Line

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students creatively move using a variety of non-locomotor and locomotor movements.
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Musical Hoops

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use locomotor skills to move to a hoop, where they solve a math problem, and use a locomotor skill to return to the beginning spot.
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Skipping Through Numbers

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify numbers 1-10 and place them in the correct order. They practice different locomotor movements and move out into the general space as directed (skip, hop, gallop, slide, etc.) and return with one card. They place the...
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Hospital Tag

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students participate in a game of tag in which they must perform a variety of activities to be unfrozen after being tagged. They use a variety of locomotor skills while moving around the play area.
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Classroom Rules

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students follow directions and adhere to the classroom rules while completing movement and equipment challenges. In this movement lesson plan, students follow the commands of the teacher and perform these movements safely.
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Hopping

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice hopping. In this physical education lesson, students discuss safety rules and respect for others while exercising. They practice how to hop and play Hop Freeze Tag. 
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Basketball/Tumbling

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers play basketball games and show knowledge of offense and defense. For this basketball lesson plan, students also answer short answer questions about offense and defense.
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Physical Education Lesson Plan - Medicine Ball

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Use the medicine ball to help young learners develop strength in the core muscle groups. The Russian twists develop oblique strength, push-ups develop triceps strength, sit-ups work on abdominal strength, and squats develop quadriceps...
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Compass Reading

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Here's a basic lesson on reading a compass. Learn the names of the parts of a compass. Learn how to read a bearing in degrees. Then go outside and follow a course of cones set up on the grass or in a clear area. Starting at one cone,...
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Scrambled Eggs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners 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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Action Verbs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders perform various tasks by identifying the action word with teacher. They demonstrate each of the correct critical elements of loco motor, non-manipulative, and manipulative skills.
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The Chicken Dance

For Teachers All
Introduction of a modern folk dance that emphasizes the coordination of both fine and gross motor skills within the melodic structure of the song. The pupils will be able to identify the main parts of an accordion and discuss the...
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Magnificent Magnification!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students magnify their digital artwork to develop their motor skills with a mouse. Using the artwork, they discover how to look at it from different perspectives. They answer discussion questions as they complete the activity.
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Locomotor License

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars 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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Keyboard centers with Music You Can Read

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play the letters provided in the format "Keyboard/Xylophone/Tone Bells" with the intention of using the "Music Only" format as skills progress. They study fingerings and chords when appropriate to skills.
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The Chicken Dance

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify and perform the five main dance movements of the "Chicken Dance" to accordion music.
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Jump Jump Jump

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars demonstrate their ability to jump rope. In this jump rope lesson, students are divided into small groups and complete each jump challenge.
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Lines: Invisible Journeys

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create visual roadmaps and follow them with gesture to create lines. They draw lines with a white crayon on paper and then paint to create a crayon resist.
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Hanukkah Game

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners participate in a game involving their motor skills. With a partner, they are given a menorah and bean bags and they decide who carries the candles. After discussing the history of Hanukkah, they practice their locomotive skills.
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Boy Scout Merit Badge: Motorboating

For Students 8th
In this boy scout merit badge:  motorboating worksheet, 8th graders research the topic with the websites listed, answer 6 detailed questions about safety, first aid, types of motors, maintenance, laws, and equipment, then...
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Measuring Earthquakes

For Teachers 4th - 8th
After a brief discussion on earthquakes, make a makeshift seismograph to record the shaking of the table that it sits upon. While the background information will be useful to you as a teacher, the seismograph does not seem like it would...
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Number Push-ups

For Teachers 1st
First graders integrate math with an upper body movement exercise.
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Tiles, Blocks, Sapphires & Gold: Designing a Treasure Map

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young cartographers in groups hide treasure at school and then create a map to find it using pattern blocks and tiles. They make paintings with clues to create a visual representation of the location of their treasure. Groups present...