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Groundhog Day
Students practice moving in general space and to increase listening skills.To enhance movement during this activity ask them to perform a variety of different locomotor skills as they move throughout the space.
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Garden of Letters
Students learn a game of tag that is delivered in the format of a garden with a queen bee that is the tagger. They work on the skills of locomotor movements, spatial awareness, and letter recognition. The lesson includes a variation to...
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State Tag
Pupils work on knowledge of state capitols by playing a tag game using a variety of locomotor movements.
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Balloon Round-Up
Students practice using paddles to hit objects. In this striking skills lesson, students use wooden paddles to round up balloon farm animals without touching the balloons with their hands.
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Invent a Sport
Students identify and demonstrate the critical elements of various sports activities. They create a chart of common elements, develop rules for a new sport, and play the new sport.
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Bowl-a-rama
Students practice rolling a ball to a target and learn various bowling terms and rules.
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The Equality State
NOT A LESSON Student cards to keep track of involvment in P.E. class.
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Fire Drill Line-Up
Young scholars take a class list posted by the door as they exit for a fire drill. Teacher can check list to ensure student safety.
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Daytona 500
Young scholars use pedometers to help track distance goals while participating in a team scooter race modeled after the Daytona 500.
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Man-Defense in Basketball Part II
Students demonstrate man-defense concept in small group or regular sized game of basketball.
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Reindeer Tag
Learners put their thumbs on their head and spread fingers out like antlers when tagged by "elf".
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Bear, Bee, and Bunny
Young scholars enter the gym. Teacher hands out the 3 animals to 3 different students. They with the animals are the taggers. One at a time, each tagger calls out a different locomotor movement to travel in (preferably running is NOT a...
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Pilgrim Needs a Home
Second graders practice skipping and hopping and understanding self space. Music begins playing and students are directed on what movement skill to do. When music stops students need to find a "home" by hopping or skipping into their...
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Cooperative Tumbling Routine
Students in groups of 3-5 develop and perform a cooperative gymnastic tumbling routine for their classmates.
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Pin Soccer
Students practice soccer skills and game strategies in an active game setting.
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Coral Reef Choreographic ProjectTo
Young scholars enhance their understanding of how animals function in a habitat.Students are scattered individually and in small groups. About half of young scholars make coral shapes in small groups. The other half of students move like...
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Shape Shifters
Students recognize different shapes and colors. When the music stops students should move to and stand on a shape. Ask students "who is standing by a square, circle," etc., and ask what color they are standing on.
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Surfing Warm Up
Students, when the drums are playing, imitate a drummer. When the music changes (drums stop), students imitate a surfer, bending at the knees and moving up and down.
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Fancy Dribbling
Students enter the playing area and pick up a ball of their choice to dribble. Then find a good self space and face the teacher with the ball between their feet. When the music starts they are to dribble all over the playing area.
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Shape Toss
Young scholars get a bounce ball and find a Polyspot. On the teacher's signal, students underhand throw to a target. They keep their own score: one point each time they hit a target.
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Toad Tag
Students who are chosen as taggers move throughout the area tagging others using a locomotor pattern of choice like walking, hopping, skipping, etc. When tagged, a spell has been cast upon them, turning them into a toad or frog.
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Phone Tag
Students play tag with a foam ball. When a student gets tagged by a phone ball, they must walk over to the teacher and recite their phone number.
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Locomotor Change Tag
Students are in scattered formation within the playing area. The identified chasers each have a foam ball. On the signal they chase using a locomotor movement. When tagged a students changes movement.