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Listen Up!
Students stand facing a partner (about 5 feet apart). When music is played the partners do a specified exercise. They listen to the music, and when the music stops, the students sit on the floor as quickly as possible. The first student...
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Bean Bag Scavenger Hunt
Students look for hidden bean bags on the playground. Once all bags are found, students may hide them from each other. Each student should have the opportunity to hide and find the bean bags. While students are hunting, the teacher...
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Leisure Skills
Students investigate the skill of self initiating a leisure skill using a choice training procedure. The training is done in short intervals of about five minutes each. The behavior is reinforced and the goal is to keep it sustained....
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Why Walk?
First graders listen to the book Yummers. They use the food pyramid to evaluate what Emily Pig ate during her walk and find out why her walk made her sick. They participate in a walking game.
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Breakfast First
Students explore reasons why breakfast is an important meal. In this healthy eating instructional activity, students research the benefits of eating breakfast and create a cookbook of healthy breakfast items. Students establish a...
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Santa's Sack
Students practice throwing and catching with a partner or self toss-catch. As a prerequisite skill they should understand safe spaces and have some knowledge of throwing and catching skills.
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Throwing a Discus
Learners investigate the correct technique of discus throwing through a warm up game using coits, progressing through to rolling discuss and then proper throwing. In this discus throwing lesson, students become familiar with and learn...
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The Plant Bartering System
Fifth graders explore plant characteristics by viewing a flower and seed presentation. In this environmental adaptation lesson, 5th graders identify specific traits plants have in order to allow them to grow in different climates whether...
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Mission "Possible" Fitness
Students elevate their heart rate and practice fitness skills. They work together to complete a list of exercises simultaneously.
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E.T. Phone Home
Middle schoolers participate in a game designed to help them focus on listening skills. They divide into team and choose one member to go into the middle of the field. They in the middle of the field are blindfolded, spun and 'called'...
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Bathtime Fun
Students recognize the importance of bathing and to identify parts that should be washed in the bath tub. Theyl name different parts they wash in the tub (ex. face, ears, arms, hands, legs, feet, stomach/tummy, and back)
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Drawing Stages
Learners learn the different characteristics that a developing infant goes through during the weekly periods of each trimester, by drawing pictures of the fetus during each trimester.
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Swimming Survivor Challenge IV
Pupils practice using a mask, snorkel, and fins to collect items from the bottom of a pool. They should swim as well as hold their breath while going under water.
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Color King-Queen Crossover
Students use color and tag to practice various locomotor skills.
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Peanut Butter and Jelly
Students walk in a well defined playing area. When the teacher signals a break students state whether they are peanut butter or jelly and look for partners to make a sandwich with.
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Freeze
Middle schoolers practice recognizing and getting into proper position when playing basketball defense.
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Roam the Halls for Fitness
Students walk as many steps as possible during a class period while using a digiwalker or pedometer.
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Don't Dent The Car
Students explore self space while learning how to interact with others. They walk around the room, then sto on the freeze signal.
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Magic Rope Curl-ups
Students imagine that they are pulling themselves up from the floor using a magic rope.
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Overhead Pass Jingle
Learners follow a series of instructions so that they can successfully perform a two handed overhead pass in volleyball.
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Shoemaker's Dance
Students explore the Shoemaker's dance. They review the steps needed for the dance; winding the thread, breaking the thread, and driving the pegs. They practice performing the dance.
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Food Groups Tag Games
Students begin with a discussion on healthy eating and the four food groups as well as analyzing their typical lunch to see if it includes all food groups. Students then play a modified version of tag, yelling out a food from a specific...
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Red Ribbon Locomotor Stations (for Drug Free America Week)
Students are introduced to the Red Ribbon campaign. In groups, they travel between a stations to discover how to stay away from drugs and how to say no. To end the lesson, they practice their locomotor skills to reinforce the strategies.