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Freeze and Thaw Continuous Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students dressed as "Snow Angels" run from "Jack Frosts" until a "Heat Meister" comes to unthaw them. They play this tag game in order to increase their heart rate and warm-up the large muscles (and to have fun.)
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Leprechaun Treasure Hunt

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students play a relay race game that gives them points for finding and retrieving hidden items. They record data on a graph.
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Animal Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students play a chasing, fleeing game after choosing an animal to role play.
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Compettion at its Best

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders role play predators, prey and other parts of the aquatic ecosystem. They show inter and intra-specific competition as well as the link between abiotic and biotic components in an ecosystem. Students play games about the...
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Find the Facts

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify characteristics of living organisms and nonliving objects while running on the playground. They run to retrieve a card, determine whether to place it in the "living" container or the "nonliving" container.
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Fitness Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils spread out in general space. Have 2/4 students be the taggers. On the teachers signal the activity starts with the taggers trying to tag the "runners". When taggeg, pupils then go to an area and perform an exercise.
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Wetland Transects

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students lay out transect lines beside a local stream or river. There they record species of plants and insects living around the stream. By doing so, students explore how to use transect sampling techniques, use a variety of methods to...
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Indoor Physical Activity Ideas for Kids!

For Teachers K - 8th
Rainy day schedule doesn't mean you can't stay fit! Use a collection of indoor physical activities during periods of inclement weather, substitute teaching days, or for those afternoons when your class just wants to move around!
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Soccer - Lesson 16 - Practice

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Lesson 16 is just another day of practice in preparation for the class soccer World Cup. There is a pretty involved warm-up activity called Flag Drag Tag. The skills of tag, running around and trying to stay away from taggers is a...
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Bocce Ball - Lesson 5 - Target Shooting

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Bocce ball is all about aiming to hit the target. Seems simple enough. Roll a ball down a lane and try to get closer to the target than anyone else. Stop. It's not that easy. Why? Because other balls get in the way and block the path. So...
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Bocce Ball - Lesson 4 - Angle of Release

For Teachers 7th - 12th
This life-long sport of Bocce ball can be played for fun, or one can play in serious competitions. Here, the angle of release is covered. Discussion and practice with regard to rolling, tossing, throwing, or lobbing requires knowledge...
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Finding NEMO

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners play agame based on Finding NEMO. They act as characters and play various roles wehre they chase, flee, and dodge.
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Kickball Soccer

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students demonstrate proper techniques of kicking, passing, and trapping a soccer ball. In this kickball soccer lesson, students apply kicking skills by placing a soccer ball on a poly spot and kicking it in the field. The students use...
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Monster Mash

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice chasing, fleeing and dodging skills.
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Seuss-Perb Stations

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars practice previously learned skills to the theme of "Dr. Seuss books".
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Disc/Frisbee H-O-R-S-E

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in throwing a disc for accuracy. In this frisbee throwing lesson, students are divided into small groups and complete throwing tasks using discs or frisbees. A student is assigned a "challenger" role and completes a...
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Survivor Island Field Day

For Teachers K - 6th
Students are given the opportunity to use the teamwork and leadership skills they learned in our cooperative learning unit in a real situation. They participate in relays, races, and rope challenges to showcase their ability to work with...
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Exercise Stations

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in station activities in P.E. In this physical education lesson, students do station activities. Students start out with a warm up exercise then make their way to dance, bowling, scooters, jump rope, and target...
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Valentine Rescue

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students play a Valentine's Day version of tag. They attempt to rescue bean bags (valentines) from one end of the play area and deliver them to another without getting tagged by a 'Hug' or 'Kiss'. Cupid can unfreeze any tagged players.
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Groundhog Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students act like groundhogs in order to practice the skills of chasing, fleeing, and dodging.
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Farm Animals: blind folded

For Teachers 7th - 8th
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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Energy Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore how the blood flows and carries oxygent from the lungs to the heart and to the body to create energy after participating in chasing, fleeing and dodging activities. They actively move through an obstacle course...
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Roll On

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, in groups, develop models to show how forces such as gravity, friction, equal, unequal forces and change in direction work on marbles.
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Throwing for Distance

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students are taught the fundamentals of the overhand throw.

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