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Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving
Students listen to the book, Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving. They rotate through five motor skills stations, with each station simulating an event from the book.
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5 More Ways to Have a Safe, Fun-Filled Summer!
Students review and discuss five important summer safety tips.
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Fitness Pursuit
Students participate in health-enhancing physical game of Trivial Pursuit and identify the benefits and effects of health related fitness.
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Candy Bar Fractions
Students explore the relationship between caloric expenditure and exercise, and see a real world use for fractions as they relate to daily life.
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Olympic Field Day
Students participate in a school-wide "Olympics" complete with opening and closing ceremonies, class competitions, medals and more. Activities can vary depending on age and physical abilities.
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Medieval Games
Students participate in a theme-based field day base on Medieval games. They integrate the field day activities into an academic study of medieval times.
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Making Public Policy
Eighth graders examine a Legislative website to view the biography of a member and a map of the district that the member represents. They are then visited by the member who engages students in a discussion about how legislators make...
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How One Part Relates To Others
Students observe how objects are put together. In pairs, students identify as many parts of a toy as possible. They explore how the parts fit together and how each part works. Students speculate how the object would be affected if a...
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Fortunately....Unfortunately
For this essay worksheet, students write an essay about a situation that happened where they can use the phrases fortunately and unfortunately. Students write a 1 page essay.
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Scootin', Sounds & Sorting
Students work together while they use various locomotor skills to practice beginning sounds of words and the letters of the alphabet. They walk, run, skip, gallop (or any locomotor skill that the teacher requires be used) alongside the...
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Halloween Stations
Students rotate through Halloween named stations in the gym using their throwing and striking skills.
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Healthy Island
Students engage in an activity that integrates nutrition information with upper body strengthening physical activities.
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Dualathon Warm-Up
Pupils compete in a biathlon of self chosen events. After reviewing the events of a biathlon and triathlon, students perform the activities of a 3,4, or 5 minute biathlon. Results are recorded by comparing the resting and performing...
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Radioactive River
Students work together as a team. Their mission is to get their entire team accross the "river" without having anyone touch the radioactive river. If any member of the team touches the river at any time, the whole team must start over.
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Zoo Parade Days
Students practice proper throwing and catching activities, different locomotor activities and cooperative activities.
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Legislative Debate: The Importance and Role of Debate within the Legislative Process
Learners learn the legislative process as they debate real-life issues that affect students within their age group. To prepare for the debate, learners consult newspapers, selected articles, case studies, and other media resources....
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Winter Wonderland Stations
Pupils use hockey sticks to strike pucks into a goal, between two cones, or into another target (e.g., bowling pins). They use white rolled up socks as snowballs to throw at a variety of targets that are on the floor or on the wall .
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Play For Pay
Students practice various skills with manipulatives, such as counting correct money amounts to pay for manipulatives.
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Seashore Limitations
Students demonstrate the movements and behaviors of creatures from different parts of the ocean.
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Merge Letter
Students create a database of addresses and a form letter, and merge that information into a letter.
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Merge Letter
Learners practice creating a database of addresses and a form letter and eventually merge that information into a letter. They create a from letter that incorporates the data sheet information in response to customers complaints...
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ESL: A Person or a Thing?
In this ESL person or thing vocabulary instructional activity, students look at terms, then select whether it represents a person or a thing, 30 total. Students click on buttons to answer.