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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Fitness Race Track

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In the gym, set up a "fitness race track" where students can both run and participate in a variety of exercises like push-ups, crunches, and jump roping. A great warm-up activity to precede a sport or physically-demanding lesson plan.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Bowl a Rama

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Introduce children to bowling in this gym-class activity. Young students practice rolling a ball with partners and then practice rolling a ball toward specific targets.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Partner Mile Run/heart Rate Calculation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
While working (and running) with a partner, a student works on "improving fitness, calculating target heart rates, and prepar[ing] for the mile run physical fitness test." This website includes a "Partner Recording Sheet" that will help...
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Fitness/strength Conditioning

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Introduce students to strength conditioning with a trip to the weight room. After studying the muscles and their functions, students are ready to start strengthening their own muscles with the use of gym equipment and to write about...
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Plans: Push Up Routine

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Because push-ups are part of most fitness-related tests, it is important that students practice push-ups and, in the process, improve upper body strength. Students able to do push-ups and able to "hold a push-up position for at least 30...
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Spot Jumping

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young children practice jumpting and hopping through "Spot jumping," a game that requires them to listen to an instructor's directions and perform specific hopping tasks. This website includes ideas for homework related to the activity,...
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Throw and Catch Tennis

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students can be introduced to tennis or racquetball through this simple instructional activity where students "Learn strategies for moving the ball around the court and the importance of placing the ball in differnt spots."
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Straights and Curves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students develop speed and stamina as they vary their running (and walking) speeds while on the track. Students may choose to "stride the straights and walk the curves" of the track or "[sprint] the straights and [walk] the curves" of...
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: No Racket Tennis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through this lesson, students able to throw and catch a ball learn the proper scoring rules and positioning of players on a tennis court. Includes ideas for keeping the activity safe.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Aerobic Frisbee Golf

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
The physical activity described at this website combines cardiovascular fitness exercises (frisbee, push-ups, jumping jacks) and academic subjects math and science.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Grocery Bag Fun

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students practice tossing and catching a simple, inexpensive object--a plastic garbage bag, ideal for young children learning to catch.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Rollerblade Scarf Tag

For Teachers 9th - 10th
At this website, read about this variation of "tag" that will help students improve their skating skills while they are getting an aerobic workout. Includes ideas for keeping the activity safe.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Who Let the Frogs Out?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This activity requires students to practice throwing, catching, and jumping as they "Leap," intro spring. At different stations throughout the gym, students participate in various activities related to frogs: playing leap frog, jumping...
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Hoop Jumper

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners practice and improve their jumping and landing skills through using different types of jumping patterns. This fun gym-class activity, which is a variation of "tag," reqires music, hula hoops for each student, and vests and foam...
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Service Anyone?

For Students 6th - 8th
Students already familiar with the proper way to hit a ball with a racket can practice overhand serves. Working in groups, students not only practice their serves but also receive feedback from their group members.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Shark Attack

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students learn, develop, and practice different jumping patterns as they flee from imaginary "sharks" throughough the gym. This website includes ideas for setting up the gym for this activity as well as suggestions for activity variations.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Wishing Well

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Practice your underhand throw has you toss various object into a "Wishing well." As your throws improve, move further away from the wishing well or make the wishing well smaller to increase the difficulty of the activity.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Jumping Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Through this activity, students practice jumping and landing in specific patterns (2-step sequence and 3-step sequence). Included at this website are ideas for varying the activity, assessing students' effort and participation, and...
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Throwing for Distance

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners able to do an overhand throw can work on improving their skill through this simple activity that requires balls to throw, a wall to throw against, and cones to mark a throwing position.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Hail Storm

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students work in teams as they practice and improve their overhand throwing skills in gym class. This website includes a description of "Hail Storm," as well as ideas for varying the activity and adapting it for students with disabilities.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Over, Under, Around, and Through

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Through this activity, students "explore a variety of traveling skills" and "understand the concepts of moving over, under, around, and through objects." Set up an obstacle course of props, tunnels, chairs, and other objects in the gym...
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Oscar's Garbage Can

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars practice their throwing skills as they toss "Trash," (foam balls, yarn balls) into "Oscar's Garbage Can." This lesson includes suggestions for varying the activity and making sure it is safe.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Simon

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A variation of "Simon Says," this game requires students to mimic other students' jumping and landing patterns.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Alligator Alley

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students attempt to escape imaginary alligators throughout the gym as they jump and land in hoops on the gym floor. Includes ideas for varying the activity, making the activity relevant in history class, and modifying the activity for...

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