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Physical Education Lesson Plan - Medicine Ball
Use the medicine ball to help young learners develop strength in the core muscle groups. The Russian twists develop oblique strength, push-ups develop triceps strength, sit-ups work on abdominal strength, and squats develop quadriceps...
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Volleyball Unit Plan
From battle ball and around-the-world sit-ups to multiple variations of setting and wall-serve drills, check out this list of 29 drills, warm ups, and modified games for your next volleyball unit.
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Compass Reading
Here's a basic lesson on reading a compass. Learn the names of the parts of a compass. Learn how to read a bearing in degrees. Then go outside and follow a course of cones set up on the grass or in a clear area. Starting at one cone,...
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Exploring Muscle Action in the Human Body
Learners collect and graph data and use the internet to research the skeletal muscles.
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Jumping
First graders perform a series of fitness activities. In this jumping lesson, 1st graders go to six stations and complete a jumping activity at each. Students become aware of various jumping techniques.
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My Best Handwriting Book 2 Pre-Cursive
In this printing letter F worksheet, students learn to form upper and lower case DeNelian letter Ff. Students trace letters and words before practicing their own letters.
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Jumping Addition
Students add and jump using a number line. In this jumping addition lesson students solve addition problems. Students work with a partner to solve a series of addition problems.
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Soccer Dribbling
Seventh graders participate in a soccer activity to practice moving the ball around the field. In this soccer dribbling lesson plan, 7th graders students try to prevent their opposing students from completing the filed exercise by...
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Using a Compass
Students determine how to shoot a bearing. In this compass and orienteering lesson, students review the parts of a compass, practice how to find a bearing and work in groups to practice finding landmark bearings.
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Following a Bearing
Students practice finding a bearing. In this orienteering lesson, students review how to use a compass and set a bearing. Students complete a worksheet where they practice finding a bearing and complete a group activity to practice...
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Memory and Learning
Students identify parts of the brain and what each part does. In this brain anatomy lesson, students participate in activities that focus on the job of each part of the brain co connect the task to the brain section. Students make a...
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Tiles, Blocks, Sapphires & Gold: Designing a Treasure Map
Young cartographers in groups hide treasure at school and then create a map to find it using pattern blocks and tiles. They make paintings with clues to create a visual representation of the location of their treasure. Groups present...
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Weather Watch Activity Guide: Groundhog Day
Exactly what do groundhogs know about weather? Not as much as your science students will after completing these lessons and activities that cover everything from the earth's rotation and the creation of shadows, to cloud...
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Water 1: Water and Ice
Students experiment with states of matter with water and ice. In this states of matter lesson, students experiment to discover what happens to water as it freezes to become a solid, ice. They observe what happens when ice melts back to...
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Badminton
Students evaluate their partner in playing a game of badminton. In this badminton lesson, 8th graders explain the rules of the game and participate in a warm up. Additionally, students observe their partners by completing a...
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Eating and Being Healthy
Young scholars investigate healthy lifestyles by examining the food pyramid and performing physical activities. In this personal health lesson, students discuss their own diets and how it compares to the food pyramid. Young scholars...
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Happy Food Song
Students learn a song. For this food lesson, students learn the Happy Food Song. Students are given a food model and identify their food. Students sing the song with motions.
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Moving Lines
Students gain an introduction to gestural line drawing along with art history correlations. They are encouraged to focus on the energy, mass, and expression of the subject rather than on illustrated replication.
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Building Log Cabins
Fourth graders design and create a log cabin in this instructional activity. They use ratios to help make dimensions of a house. They draw out how they want their house to look and gather the materials they need to complete the house. ...
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Diet and Exercise Activity
Students explore their physical abilities by participating in team sports. In this physical education lesson, students collaborate in groups in one of several team sports before moving on to the next station. Students discuss healthy...
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Farm Animals: blind folded
Students yell out their farm animal noise while being blind folded and have to find their animal group. In this group activity lesson plan, students learn how to work together to achieve a common goal.
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Basketball/Tumbling
Students play basketball games and show knowledge of offense and defense. In this basketball lesson plan, students also answer short answer questions about offense and defense.
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Bow and Arrow - physical education
Young scholars practice archery. In this archery lesson, students see how to shoot the bow and hit a target. They attempt to hit balloons that are attached to a target.
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Lines: Invisible Journeys
Students create visual roadmaps and follow them with gesture to create lines. They draw lines with a white crayon on paper and then paint to create a crayon resist.