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Frisbee Golf - Lesson 8

For Teachers 7th - 10th
The culminating lesson of the frisbee golf unit, playing frisbee golf courses designed by the class. The players will partner up and design courses. They will have to set them up also on the day their course is selected for play. Review...
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Home Olympics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Here's a great way to host a simulated Olympic Games at school. Together, everyone designs an obstacle course, plays balloon volleyball, tumbling tornadoes, crosses the brook, and takes part in a cooperative race. If you want to, you can...
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Where Are You?: Prepositions of Place

For Teachers K - 3rd
Examine prepositions of place in this language arts lesson. Learners participate in activities to indicate prepositions and physical actions that demonstrate those prepositions. They create drawings with shapes, play the games "Simon...
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Cooperative Learning Games

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars create a human obstacle course by making obstacles using their bodies. They work with a rope to have all students pass under it without using their hands to hold or move it. They complete a list of challenges in which the...
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Map It Out

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create obstacle course maps. They lay out their course on the playground, using symbols for trees, fences, etc, Students, in groups, exchange maps and then follow the courses.
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'O'opu Life Cycle

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate the life cycle of the 'o'opu also known as Hawaiian gobies.  In this amphidromous living lesson, students discuss the reproductive cycle, create props and an obstacle course to demonstrate the importance of the...
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Overcoming Obstacles in Factoring

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
What do you do when factoring doesn't work? Learners complete the square when faced with quadratic expression that don't factor traditionally. They then use factoring by grouping to solve polynomial equations.
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Developing Personal Power

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Money? Beauty? Education? The final lesson in the Confidence Building module encourages middle schoolers to consider the power they have to determine the course of their lives. After investigating different forms of power, participants...
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Developing a Positive Attitude

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Be positive! That's the take-away from a lesson about how a positive attitude influences actions and increases one's ability to succeed. To conclude the lesson, participants create a plan for how to respond positively to obstacles.
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Considering Pros and Cons

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers continue to study the problem solving process by identifying the pros and cons of different options they listed on their "How Could I Do This" activity sheet from the previous lesson. After weighing the options, they...
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Getting Along

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Wouldn't it be nice if we could all learn to get along? Middle schoolers review the skills they have learned in other lessons in the course and apply them to a series of activities. They then create posters illustrating their advice on...
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Design a Shoe

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Engage young scientists in a project where high fashion meets engineering! Using foam core and hot glue, partnered pupils design and create a functional, fashionable pair of shoes. Groups then put the footwear through its paces using a...
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Harry Potter Field Day

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a Harry Potter Field Day. In four groups, with each group representing one of the houses of Hogwarts, they fly brooms around cones, play Quidditch, create "Polyjuice Potion," use their "wands" to play tennis, and...
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Individual Responsibility and Resistance During the Holocaust

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine what obstacles hinder resistance, what types of resistance are possible and how different individuals resisted Nazi oppression. They examine primary source documents related to the Holocaust and analyze various sources...
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Take Action Haiti

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Using an online internet simulation, learners will role-play various members of a family living in rural Haiti. The objective is to increase global awareness by requiring them to consider poverty as an obstacle to education in Haiti....
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Insoluble Paintings

For Teachers K - 12th
Insolubility and density? Yup, it's art class, of course. To create insoluble paintings that continually move and change, kids mix water-based paint with mineral oil and seal the mixture in laminating pouches.
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Line Drawing Obstacle Course

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners practice their pencil holding and controlling skills.
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Build a Pinball Game

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Watch your classroom turn into an arcade. Pupils work in groups to build pinball machines from boxes and other found objects. Gamers must incorporate a variety of obstacles and launchers into the machine to see their designs in motion.
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Simple Machines, Survivor-Style

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students apply the principles of simple machines to create events in a wacky obstacle course. They work with a partner to prepare a visual presentation and an expository description of the obstacle course. Each group sequentially...
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The Great Race

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Learners identify the mean, median and mode of collected data. In this statistics lesson, students collect, graph and analyze data using central tendencies. They work in groups to collect data on a robot through an obstacle course.
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Abstaining from Drugs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars state refusal skills to promote abstinence from tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. They work in cooperative teams to complete a blindfolded race through an obstacle course by identifying refusal skills.
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Spatial Awareness and Understanding Directions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students follow directions. In this spatial awareness lesson, students play follow the leader around an obstacle course following simple directions. 
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Surviving the Outback

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students demonstrate the ability to perform locomotor and non-locomotor skills upon teacher request. They perform an obstacle course involving locomotor skills (walk, run, hop) and non-locomotor skills (bend) with full completion.
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Electrophoresis Analogy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a simulation of electrophoresis separation of DNA fragments. They link arms to form DNA fragments with each student representing a nucleotide. As they move through an obstacle course they discover how fragments...

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