CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Kinetic Energy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore the concept of energy as well as the idea of energy in motion, kinetic energy.
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Scholastic: Hands on Is Minds On
As students put projects together, create crafts, or use familiar materials in new ways, they're constructing meaning. Students love to touch and manipulate materials and this can activate kids' brains. This article gives tips for...
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Active for Life: Jumping, Hopping & Skipping
A series of activities to practice motor skills using jump ropes, cones, and hula hoops.
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Pe Central: Dancing on Different Levels
Used in the preschool or lower elementary grades, this dance can reinforce the concepts of moving in a low, medium and high level as well as practicing movements to the right and left.
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Pe Central: Be the Pizza
The students are going to pretend to be pizza dough being made into a pizza pie. The teacher will give the following step by step instructions for the process of making the pizza. Children respond by moving their bodies as if they were...
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Pe Central: Alphabet Madness
This activity promotes movement through imagery inspired by words associated with each letter of the alphabet.
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Pe Central: Balancing Act!
Students will demonstrate body management skills specific to balance with and without the use of apparatus by working their way through a series of stations. A balancing checklist for assessment is included.
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Pe Central: Locomotor License
This lesson will have young scholars practicing locomotor skills and moving safely in general space. A video and assessment are provided.
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Nhs: Sense Able Ideas: Activities to Improve Oral Motor Skills
This booklet is to give you ideas and activities to help support your child / young person to improve the awareness and co-ordination of their oral motor skills.
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Pbs Learning Media: Mandarin Movement Lesson Plan
In this activity, language and movement unite. There are two teachers who will read a command, once in Mandarin and once in English. The students listen to both languages and then perform what the command is.
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Pbs Learning Media: Spanish Action Verbs Lesson Plan
In this interactive lesson, students learn about Spanish action verbs while exercising!
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Pbs Learning Media: Tour Through New York State Lesson Plan
This instructional activity is a cool and hip way to tour across New York State. The teacher takes young scholars on a virtual tour of NYS while using music and movement.
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Pbs Learning Media: Marvin K. Mooney Lesson Plan
In this lesson students get to combine the world of literacy and physical movement! As the teacher reads the book "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now" by Dr. Seuss, students listen carefully and safely jump up out of their chairs...
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Pbs Learning Media: 50 States Part 2 Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students combine psychomotor skills and geography as they travel from Montana to Wyoming. As students travel from state to state, they learn regional facts and state capitals. Students perform physical tasks highlighting...
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Pbs Learning Media: 50 States Part 1 Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students travel virtually to 25 different states from Alabama to Missouri. While on their journey students explore geography, learn state capitals and interesting facts along the way. Movements are unique and incorporate...
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Pbs Learning Media: States of Matter Fitness Lesson Plan
For this lesson, students use their science knowledge and apply it using physical activity! Learning about the stages of matter, solid, liquid and gas, students perform an exercise for each as the teacher calls out an object such as soup...
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Pbs Learning Media: Butterfly Life Cycle Fitness Lesson Plan
Science and exercise unite in this lesson plan! Students learn about the life cycle of a butterfly while performing certain physical tasks at each stage.
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Pbs Learning Media: Brain Break I See Sports Lesson Plan
In this brain break instructional activity, students act out different movements, using their psychomotor skills, found in sports.
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Pbs Learning Media: Meet My Muscles Upper Body Lesson Plan
Following along with their teacher, learners learn about the various upper body muscles we have such as the bicep and pectoral muscles and learn how to give them a good stretch and exercise.
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Pbs Learning Media: Meet My Muscles Lower Body Lesson Plan
This lesson depicts students following along with their teacher to learn about lower body muscles. Students learn about muscles such as the gluteal and hamstring and how to give them a good stretch and exercise.
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Pbs Learning Media: Season Fitness Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students have fun in fitness as they follow along with their teacher to perform various exercises and stretches found in the different seasons. Doing activities like playing baseball and cross-country skiing, students...
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Pbs Learning Media: Rock Paper Scissors Lesson Plan
This lesson puts a physical twist on the traditional game, rock, paper, scissors! Students get into pairs to play rock, paper, scissors. However, in this game the person who does not win the match is rewarded with exercise by doing...
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Pbs Learning Media: Memory Lane Fitness Lesson Plan
With this activity, students get a brain and body workout! Students work in pairs as the teacher calls out physical tasks such as high fives and tunnel tens. As the teacher is calling out these partner exercises, students must listen...
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Pbs Learning Media: Twizzle Lesson Plan
Students must use their listening and exercise skills to win this game! Students listen for commands from their teacher such as jump, turn, freeze, go, and twizzle. As they hear them, they must perform them quickly and properly before...