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Sportsmanship: Grades 9-12
The increasing number of unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, red cards, and ejections from games points out the need for activities that help young people recognize behaviors that exemplify good sportsmanship. For homework, class members...
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Volleyball
Students learn the different ways to pass a volleyball while playing the game. In this volleyball lesson plan, students learn how to serve, bump, and pass a volleyball.
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Soccer - Skeleton Outline
This worksheet goes directly along with a PowerPoint presentation called - Soccer Notes. You can find it on our Lesson Planet website. The class can take notes on the worksheet as the teacher shows the PowerPoint and talks about the...
Mr Gym
Mini Soccer
Practice all of those soccer skills you just taught in one fun activity. Divide the class into two teams. Each team then divides itself into three equal parts: goalies, fullbacks, and forwards. There are three soccer balls in play at the...
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Dodgeball: The 4-Week Lesson Plan
There's more to this game than just dodging! Here you'll find loads of activities and practice exercises for teaching your young athletes a variety of overarm/underarm throws, catches, dodges, and tactics.
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Wheelchair Basketball
The class practices bounce passes and chest passes to improve their basketball skills. They get to play a modified basketball game with no dribbling allowed. You could incorporate several modifications into this lesson to accomodate...
Amateur Athletic Foundation
Olympic Lingo
Instead of bingo, why not play some Lingo? This vocabulary game is just like bingo, but it's all about words and focuses on building vocabulary. The resource provides a blank Lingo card, a filled-in sample, and a vocabulary list. All of...
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Predator Protector Game
Students take on the role of an Ocean Adventures expedition volunteer member and are charged with protecting three species of sharks from danger in order to defend the balance of nature in the ecosystem. They play an online game which...
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Tag: Everyone is it!
Young scholars play a game of tag in which every student is "it." In this physical education lesson, students participate in a game of tag in which they are all "it." Young scholars perform jumping jacks after they are tagged.
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Predator, Predator, Don't East Me!
To prep for a instructional activity on predator/prey relationships, get kids up and moving. This game is based on the game 'Red Light, Green Light' but employs the concept of predator vs. prey. This is not a full instructional activity...
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Olympic Games - Can You Measure Up?
Students complete 6 units to learn about Ancient Greece and the Olympic games through physical education activities as well as math activities. In this Ancient Greece lesson, students complete multiple activities in 6 lessons including...
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Games
In this games worksheet, students identify and discuss eighteen different types of games and then circle each one in a word search puzzle.
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Let's Play British Bulldogs!
Play a wonderful, easy-to-set up, outdoor PE game that causes kids to get a daily dose of exercise!
University of Minnesota
What's the Deal? Addiction Card Game
Addiction is a big deal! Playing a game of cards helps learners understand the concept of addiction. Through their analysis, they examine the potential for addiction and how it varies for each individual.
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Power Walk and Jog
Throw in something different for your runners to focus on while they walk, jog, or run for five and a half minutes. Each time the runner passes you, hand them a playing card. There are several ideas on how to use them as motivators:...
Phys Ed Games
Card Suit Pickup
Calling all spades, diamonds, hearts, and clubs! Four teams compete against one another to collect all 52 cards in a deck. Each team lines up on one side of the gym, opposite of the deck of cards. Each team member takes turns running to...
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Inclusion
Inclusion is the focus of a lesson that looks closely at how to make equal groups in cooperative settings. Using physical education activities, scholars are challenged to create groups quickly and inclusively. After several activities,...
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Prisoners Baseball
Students play the game prisoners baseball. They tag members of the other team and put them into the prison area. Students may b freed by a member of his own team. Students play a variety of games that help them use team work.
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Stunts & Tumbling Unit
Pupils, through play and use of a Hyperstudio Stack, identify animals and the way they walk, and then imitate their movements through a game. They gain motor skills through stunts and tumbling activities. This is mainly for kindergarten...
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Table Tennis
Sixth graders practice and investigate the game of table tennis while engaging them in various types of levels for play. Each level is defined in the lesson for reference and includes the standard for mastering the basic hitting of the...
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Volleyball - Lesson 7 - Setting up the Attack
Lesson seven out of this 20 lesson unit focuses on setting up to attack. There is a lot to consider and know with regard to attacking to score a point. This piece focuses on passing the ball to the setter, who then focuses on setting the...
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Corner Ball
Here's a game where players use a variety of ball handling skills. The players may not run when in possessioln of the ball, so it's like a big game of keep away. But there are goals, rather baskets, one in each corner of the gym. So the...
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Lead Up Games
Pupils participate in lead up activities. In this physical education lesson plan, students practice lead up games. A rubric is included.
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Volleyball - Lesson 8 - Spiking Footwork
Lesson 8 in this series of seventeen volleyball lessons focuses on the basic footsteps of approaching the net to spike the ball. It takes a lot of practice to get good at spiking the volleyball. It is also one of the most thrilling...