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The Twelve Ways to Fitness
Students work on their cardiovascular and muscular endurance by exercising to the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
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Basketball Warm-Ups
Students participate in several warm-up activities to prepare for playing basketball. Activities are to be completed as individuals or with a partner.
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Football Punting
Students gain a better understanding of what they know about punting a football, by filling out a peer evaluation checklist.
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Football Catching
Students gain a better understanding of what they know about catching a football, by filling out a peer evaluation checklist.
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Football Throwing
Pupils gain a better understanding of what they know about throwing a football, by filling out a peer evaluation checklist.
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Track and Field Olympics
Learners practice the long jump, the triple jump, the shot put, the hammer throw, and the 50 yard sprint in a mock Olympic track and field competition.
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Understanding the Key Points for Basketball Skills
Students work in pairs to help each other explain the purpose of the key points of basketball.
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3 Position Pass Patterns
Students play a passing game to familiarize themselves with pass patterns and the roles of the quarterback, center, and receivers on a football team,
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Assessing Motor And Physical Fitness Activities
Learners assess and challenge themselves in a wide variety of fitness and motor skill areas throughout the school year.
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Six Week Assessment Exam
Students demonstrate what they have learned about the concepts of catching a ball, dribbling a ball, and kicking a ball in physical education class.
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Sports Franchises: The Demographic Dimension
Students examine how U.S. population patterns have changed over time. Using the growth of major league baseball to illustrate these patterns, students create maps, examine regional migration patterns, and make predictions for the future.
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Lincoln Avenue Basketball
Students practice basketball skills including the ability to move and dribble a ball with control while keeping it away from an opponent; to pass a ball using various types of passes; to shoot toward an intended target.
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Birdie's Nest
Students develop and refine their ability to strike a shuttlecock with a badminton racquet using an underhand serving motion.
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Pass for Points
Students participate in offensive and defensive strategies in flag football and work on passing, catching, and defending.
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Small-sided Soccer Skill Baseball
Students play a game that emphasizes practice of all the basic soccer skills.
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Macarena Basketball Review
Learners review basketball skills and are challenged to perform specific shills to the beat of music.
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Team Target Golf Chip
Students practice chipping golf balls towards a target. In teams, students chip golf balls into a hula hoop, getting one point for each ball that is chipped in the hula hoop.
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Newton's Laws and Winter Sports
Students investigate past winter Olympic games utilizing any skiing or snowboarding event to take Newton's Challenge. Helpful Web resources are provided and students enjoy learning science laws along with researching Olympic events.
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SOS: Save Our Ski Slopes
Students defend downhill skiing as an Olympic Games event by creating a presentation that graphically proves the economic impact and popularity of this event.
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Subtracting Integers: Math, Physical Education, Dancing, Negative Numbers
Students demonstrate their understanding of positive and negative integers by adding and subtracting. More importantly, students explain why a negative number, subtracted from a negative number, changes the operation.
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Rating a Quarterback in Football: Statistics, Math, Ratings
Students find out how football statistics are derived, compute quarterback ratings for themselves and interpret quarterback ratings in order to investigate what a player must do to improve ratings.
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What in the World Is Snowboarding?
Students research the sport of snowboarding in-depth, and divide into small groups to create an entertaining, multimedia newsletter on the sport.
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Women in Skiing: Winter Sports, Gender Roles, Discrimination, Women's History
Students create a newsletter about women in skiing, addressing issues of gender discrimination in sports and women's achievements.
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Cardiovascular Fitness
Middle schoolers design a cardiovascular fitness program that encourages them to implement it in their daily lives.