Physical Education Lesson Plans

Learners assess their level of fitness using a graphing website. In this physical education lesson, learners develop a graph on the amount of push-up's, sit-up's and pull-ups that they complete over a few months. Learners also track their improvement in completing a mile run and completing a 100 meter dash. There is a suggested website for learners to develop a graph.

In this lesson 3rd graders investigate physical education and sports in the past and present. In this physical education lesson 3rd graders view primary source prints and photographs. They compare physical education and sports today and in the past.

Students with disabilities participate in various sports using the Nintendo Wii. During physical education, they use the video game system to play sports and learn the rules of games they may not have been able to participate in because of their disability.

Students explore body movement. In this physical education and literacy lesson, students listen to several poems and books with an animal movement theme and imitate the movements described. Students create a class book in which digital pictures are taken of the students pretending to be an animal.

Learners practice physical education vocabulary. Working in conjunction with language arts teachers, learners use dictionary skills to define and explain a word dealing with a concept in physical education. Learners who complete the task have their names put into a prize drawing.

Students in physical education classes display their skills by photographing them and placing video snapshots on bulletin boards around school. The teacher films several minutes of the students engaged in physical activities, freezes frames, and prints them. Each picture includes a caption with the student's name and explanation of the activity.

Students demonstrate a physical exercise if their team accepts the terms offered by the other team. In this physical education lesson plan, students accept offers much like the game Deal or No Deal.

This lesson has learners incorporate writing into their physical education class. In groups, they unscramble a list of words related to exercise and use them in their journal writings. Using their name, they write one word related to physical activity that begins with each letter of their name. To end the lesson, they are given the setting, theme or characters of a story and are to identify the novel and jump through the hula hoop.

Students problem solve how to add more periods of physical education into the school week without building more gyms. They make a list of solutions and choose one. They write three reasons why they support that choice and share it with them class.

Learners (parents) are shown a presentation that highlights the philosophy of learners working together in PE and in the music program. They are shown that things work better when they work together. Learners are shown activities that children are doing in PE and Music class.