Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Twelve Days of Winter Break

The best way to really learn something is to teach it! Using this instructional activity as their guide, your class members will each create a 20-minute fitness lesson to teach to their peers. Lesson plan template calls for...

This is a fun gym-class activity that requires students to apply simple geography, mathematics, and writing skills. As a class, students skate (or run or walk or bike) around the gym in hopes of gaining mileage. Lesson idea includes...

Introduce students to strength conditioning with a trip to the weight room. After studying the muscles and their functions, students are ready to start strengthening their own muscles with the use of gym equipment and to write about...

Middle schoolers can be introduced to tennis or racquetball through this simple lesson where students "Learn strategies for moving the ball around the court and the importance of placing the ball in differnt spots."

Middle schoolers participate in an extra credit activity designed to keep them active over winter break.

The physical activity described at this website combines cardiovascular fitness exercises (frisbee, push-ups, jumping jacks) and academic subjects math and science.

Students already familiar with the proper way to hit a ball with a racket can practice overhand serves. Working in groups, students not only practice their serves but also receive feedback from their group members.

Rainy day schedule doesn't mean you can't stay fit! Use a collection of indoor physical activities during periods of inclement weather, substitute teaching days, or for those afternoons when your class just wants to move around!

This is a fun activity through which learners not only practice football skills like passing, hiking, catching, dodging, and carrying, but also get an aerobic workout. "Football Bingo" combines football, bingo, and capture-the-flag in a...

If you need to get your youngsters moving, but are lacking in space, check out this list of activities. While designed for a PE class, many of the activities would do well for teambuilding or extra break time.