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Fun Fitness Activities For Kids

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From shuttle run relays to ACTIVE Bingo, you'll be elated to have this PE resource packet in your tool belt for your next fitness lesson. After all, who wouldn't want to play a game called, "Elephants, Giraffes, and Palm Trees"?

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

fitness, fitness plans, aerobic activity, anaerobic activity, teamwork, teambuilding, sportsmanship, sports

Additional Tags

physical education

Instructional Ideas

  • Consider using these activities as part of a weekly "Fun Game Friday", or choose activities as they appropriately correlate to a skill or sport you are covering

Pros

  • All activities are easily adaptable or modifiable to skills you would like to focus on
  • Wide variety of highly engaging games 

Cons

  • None

Common Core

SL.1.1.a SL.2.1.a SL.3.1.a SL.4.1.a

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