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Hungry Hungry Hippos

For Teachers K
Students play a game in which they use scooter boards to impersonate hippos. They gather balls and place them into a bucket while remaining on the scooter boards.
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Animal Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students play a chasing, fleeing game after choosing an animal to role play.
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Spongebob Squarepants Tag

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars role-play Spongebob Squarepants characters while participating in a P.E. tag game.
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Hybrid Sport

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice playing a net sport similiar to volleyball. They work together to score more points than the other team. They make suggestions about who to change the game as well.
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Benchball

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars are taught ball skills and spatial awareness. They are divided into two teams. Students nominate one player to stand on the bench in their half of the court. They then arrange themselves anywhere in thier half of the...
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Hot Hoops

For Teachers K
Students work on jumping and landing skills and cooperation. This lesson enables students to better use in space, while learning different colors. For this game, everyone is a winner.
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Foam Ball Passover

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars work together using positive verbal affirmations in a relay game of passing an object with their feet.
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Summer Olympic Event Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the Summer Olympic Games and the activities that the athletes compete in. They select a topic area to research and complete the assessment piece.
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Sneaker Slap

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students develop agility while moving from the "ready position." students change directions efficiently in a game-like situation.
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E.T. Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students interact in a game of tag. When students are caught they must practice waiting skills to be "unfrozen".
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Line Monsters

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students play a game of tag using lines on the floor.
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Lining Up for Classroom Teacher

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play one of two games while waiting in line for their teacher. They lay down on the ground like Sleeping Beauty and can only awake when teacher guesses the secret word. They also freeze in the pose of their favorite sport pose.
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Freeze and Thaw Continuous Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners dressed as "Snow Angels" run from "Jack Frosts" until a "Heat Meister" comes to unthaw them. They play this tag game in order to increase their heart rate and warm-up the large muscles (and to have fun.)
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New Number Now

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students stand on the poly spots hiding the number. They wait for the teacher to roll the dice to see what number comes up. Students are given the rules and an example of the game, if, the number 5 comes up then the other students who...
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High Activity Golf Test Taking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students engage in a written test on the vocabulary and purpose of the game of golf. The students increase knowledge of golf terminology and maintain a high activity level during the game.
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Help Your Friends

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students, through this game see the results of cooperation using bean bags and an open playing area (gym or field).
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Snake

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners practice their cooperation and balancing skills through this game.
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Every Which Way But Loose

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students participate in physical activities that involves walking that is inexpensive, not skill dependent, can be used throughout the lifetime and easily organized into a social activity. They brainstorm all the benefits of walking.
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Team Leap Frog

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in a team game to determine how many people on the other team they can tag and have squatting at the end of the time period.
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Snowball Tag

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars play pretend snow games, using balls of yarn as snowballs.
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Offensive and Defensive Strategies

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders are introduced to offensive and defensive strategies in the game of soccer. They, in groups, develop their own strategies, write them down for presentation to the instructor and try them out against an opposing team.
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Deal or No Deal

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students play a game based on the popular TV Show "Deal or no Deal." They have several envelopes labeled by their type of exercise such as "push-ups", "jumping jacks", "sit-ups, "mountain climbers", "jogging", etc. Students listen as...
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Madagascar Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review the rules of Madagascar Tag and choose three students to be zoo keepers and the rest of the students are Penguins. They perform different locomotor skill each time they are tagged until all have been tagged and the game...
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Run for it!

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students play a game inside the 'base' of dome cones. They attempt to run to any cone outside of dome cone and back to base to earn a point. If a student is tagged by a noodle, he/she simply returns to base and starts over with zero...