Top taps, slide taps, and drop taps...oh my! Here is a fantastic activity that you can use in your class to support both practicing and assessing basic soccer maneuvers, such as pulling back, dribbling, and alternating feet.

What is the relationship among the heart, circulation, and exercise? Your class members will explore first-hand how different physical exercises affect an individual's heart rate. They will begin by learning how to measure their own...

Students create a worksheet at a website showing examples of throwing skills. They practice and assess the skills.

Young scholars assess and challenge themselves in a wide variety of fitness and motor skill areas throughout the school year.

Learners are asked to find a partner and join hands (preferably not interlocking fingers) or hook elbows.

Students evaluate each other playing in a basketball lead-up activity for about 3 minutes or so.

Students research the importance of jump ropes in sports. Students team up with a partner to time their jump roping and heart rates. Students preform various skills using the jump rope.

Dancers practice echoing through dance. They listen to a story "Flip and Flop" and then are put into pairs. One partner is Flip, while the other is Flop. Flip creates a shape by dancing, and Flop, the other student, echoes that shape by...

Second graders create and act out mirror images of their partners and the movements they make. They focus on spatial awareness skills associated with this activity, including exercising in large and small movements. Students observe...

Learners improve fitness, calculating target heart rates, and prepare for the mile run physical fitness test.

Students experience and participate in a variety of four winter station games. They assess the winter stations of Get the Candy Cane, What is in Your Stocking, Jingle Bell Basketball and Candy Cane Lane. Each student also experiences a...

The culminating instructional activity 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...

One of the most important skills in orienteering is being able to read a topographical map. Understanding the contour lines and symbols and the scale of the map will make planning your route so much better. In this lesson, partners get...

Learners are assessed on the amount of improvement they make over a period of 6 weeks. They keep track of their improvement on an Excel spreadsheet so they can also see their improvement. This lesson focuses on leg and arm strength.

Students are allowed time for badminton singles play when space is limited and to keep everyone actively engaged in the game during play.

Students see if they can identify if their peers are using the correct cues when dribbling a basketball.

Young scholars identify if their peers are using the correct cues when performing the forehand ground stroke in tennis. They get in groups of 3. One person be the observer; one be the tosser.

Five learning stations for five physical fitness components: cardiovascular exercise, body composition, muscle endurance, muscular strength, and flexibility. As pupils progress through each station, they will complete assigned tasks,...

Students improve fitness, calculate target heart rates and prepare for the mile run physical fitness test.

Young scholars identify if their peers are using the correct cues when shooting a layup.

Students travel different pathways on scooters - with a partner. The partner is evaluating whether or not the person on the scooter is moving in the correct pathway.

Students practice their throwing and catching skills while reinforcing cues learned previously in class. They throw and catch with a partner to music. They use at least six or seven different objects to hone their skills.

Students practice their badminton skills while trying to achieve the three levels of performance designated by the teacher. Students work with partners and assess each other using the leveled sheets.

Students pair up with a partner and find a good self space. They choose who "match" who first (i.e., be the "leader"). Standing next to their partner, and only looking at their shadow, each student tries to match their partner