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Roam the Halls for Fitness
Students use pedometers or digiwalkers to walk as many steps as possible during a class period (in the building hallways). They assess steps walked at the end of the period for prizes and/or goal setting.
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Phone Tag
Students play tag with a foam ball. When a student gets tagged by a phone ball, they must walk over to the teacher and recite their phone number.
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Musical Line Movements
Young scholars work on balance by traveling along lines on the floor; and by starting and stopping a variety of locomotor movements with control.
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Sneaker Slap
Students develop agility while moving from the "ready position." students change directions efficiently in a game-like situation.
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Cartoon Challenge
Students practice locomotor movements and space awareness while reinforcing knowledge of living and non-living things learned from the classroom.
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Walking Willie
Students walk for a timed amount over a measured course and receive a paper marker for each 'lap' they complete. At the end of the time period the entire class counts off the total of their markers to determine how many miles have been...
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Art: It Takes a Village
Learners identify the different areas found in a Winter Games Village and different sports played in the Winter Games. This will be done through whole group brainstorming.
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Roam the Halls for Fitness
Students walk as many steps as possible during a class period while using a digiwalker or pedometer.
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Don't Dent The Car
Students explore self space while learning how to interact with others. They walk around the room, then sto on the freeze signal.
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Talk-About-It
Students follow guidelines to meet with others and discuss individual complaints or small problems.
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Overhead Pass Jingle
Students follow a series of instructions so that they can successfully perform a two handed overhead pass in volleyball.
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Buckets
Students practice their collecting and gathering skills while practicing recognizing colors and learning body contol.
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Living Letters
First graders physically form the letters of the alphabet in small groups. They move around demonstrating various locomotive skills, and form the letter that the teacher calls out.
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A Measuring Tug
Fourth graders participate in a length and measurement tug-of-war game. They try and pull the rope as many feet as the teacher has marked, calling out their measurement when one side has succeeded.
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Health Ball
Second graders participate in a game in which they discover tips for a healthy lifestyle. They discuss that the decisions they make now affect the rest of their lives. They ask any questions they have to end the lesson.
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White Elephant Exercise Exchange
Students get moving in a fun holiday setting. They participate in a holiday tradition of exchanging gifts with the gift being an exercise to be completed. Exercises are written on small slips of paper and put into a small holiday gift bag.
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My Dream Home
Students investigate the concept of a dream home and create an architectural drawing of it. They design the home with a projected budget of $500,000. They research different designs with the intent of pulling ideas for their design....
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Field Trip to School
Students better explain the diversity and adaptations of living organisms.
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Swim Like a Whale or Fish?
Students recognize the difference between whales and fish by categorizing them according to their method of swimming. They synthesize this information by simulating the swimming patterns of whales and fish and comparing it to their own.
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Fire Drill Line-Up
Students take a class list posted by the door as they exit for a fire drill. Teacher can check list to ensure student safety.
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Daytona 500
Learners use pedometers to help track distance goals while participating in a team scooter race modeled after the Daytona 500.
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Switch and Rotate
Students participate in a game whose object is to stay so close to a partner that when the teacher says "Stop," the players freeze. The follower should touch the leader.
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Video Game Treasure Hunt
Students creatively and safely move through general space, developing their own locomotor movements.
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The Water Dance
Students act like the changes in the four seasons by moving like water in each season.