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Keep Your Caboose

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify the correct way to walk down the hallway, which means to walk without talking, no touching, no cutting, and hand to their sides. They line up to walk down the hallway and that the last student in line is the caboose,...
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TOG (Jog-Tag)

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students go out to the track or around the outside perimeter of a gym. Two or three taggers start at one end of the track while the rest start at the opposite end. Then all run in one direction around the track. At the signal, they begin...
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Carpool

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners observe general and personal space. They scatter in general space and students with hoops are cars, those with pinnies are police officers. Everyone else is a pedestrian. If tagged, the pedestrian must complete five jumping...
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Pe Central: Physical Education Lesson Plans: Pe Central

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An outstanding site for PE lesson plan ideas, Classroom Management ideas, health lesson ideas as well as ideas for field day activities. The lessons are broken down by grade levels. Ideas to teach a comprehensive physical education program.
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Pe Central: Jump the River

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young children practice jumping and landing while using proper arm movements to ensure safety and balance. At this website, find a description of the game, "Jump the River," including ideas for demonstrating it in class, ways of varying...
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Primary Resources: Pe

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Primary Resources provide pdf and html documents for lessons that include: warm-up activities, dance & gymnastics, invasion games, striking & fielding games, net/wall games, fitness & athletics, outdoor & adventurous...
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Football Bingo

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a fun activity through which students not only practice football skills like passing, hiking, catching, dodging, and carrying, but also get an aerobic workout. "Football Bingo" combines football, bingo, and capture-the-flag in a...
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Pe Central: Cooperative Learning: Sneak Attack

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Teach you students "Sneak attack," and enforce the importance of cooperation while playing this game. Game requires simple equiptment as well as students' knowledge of the terms "Offense," and "Defense."
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Fitness Four Square

For Teachers 6th - 8th
At this website, learn about a game that combines four square and other aerobic exercises. Includes ideas for assessing students' participation in the activity as well as adapting the activity for students with physical disabilities.
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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: 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: Animal Fun

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students practice and improve their jumping and landing skills as they play this fun game and imitate the jumping styles of frongs, kangaroos, rabbits, and gazelles.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Small Sided Soccer Skill Baseball

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is an interesting activity where middle schoolers use their soccer skills in a game that plays much like baseball. Players, while on offense and defense, are required to practice controlling, passing, and dribbling a soccer ball.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Soccer Tennis

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Play a game of "Tennis," with a soccer ball! This website provides detailed guidelines for "soccer tennis" which can be varied depending on the skill-level of the students. Includes ideas for assessing students' participation.
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Pe Central: Instant Activity: Spongebob Squarepants Tag

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Here is a variation of tag based on the popular cartoon "Spongebob Squarepants." Includes a simple way of randomly assigning who plays "it" during the game.
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Pe Central: Mini Golf

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Introduce young scholars to golf-putting through a fun game of miniature golf. Build a nine or eighteen-hole golf course in the gym using gymnastic mats, carpet squares, and drinking cups. Then have students, in groups, play the entire...
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Pe Central: Soccer Golf

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about the rules of golf before every handling a golf club. This website provides guidelines for "Soccer golf," a game through which learners can learn how to play golf by using their feet and soccer balls rather than clubs and golf...
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Pe Central: Ridgerunner

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use their imagination and their stamina as they learn about and run through the Appalachian Trail. Students study the Appalachian Trail (in gym or in another class), figure out how many laps around the track would be equal to...
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Badminton 4 Square

For Teachers 9th - 10th
At this website, find ideas for a gym-class badminton activity. The modified version of badminton described here is very similar to 4-square and is accompanied by ideas for modifying the game-play.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Freeze

For Teachers 6th - 8th
At this website, read about a variation of basketball that allows students to score points just by being near the basketball basket. Includes ideas for varying the lesson and assessing students' participation.
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Pe Central: Ditto a Cooperative Game

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In groups, students not only design and build something using equipment set for them but also write a detailed description of the item they have created so that others can follow their lead. This activity requires students to be...
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Pe Central: Basketball Mania

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, middle schoolers practice dribbling a ball and making shots from different zones, varying in distance from the basket. Includes ideas for "keeping score" and varying the activity.

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