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Extension Activity Building a Healthy Classroom Community
Workout buddies aren't just for adults! Learners discuss the benefits of 60 minutes of physical activity each day and generate ideas for how they can accomplish this by working toward a goal with friends.
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Cooperative Games - Instant Activities
Get your class up and moving! Instant activities are a great way to keep the whole class active with little teacher involvement. While this is not a lesson for an entire class period, these activities sound like fun. Try a few of these...
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Catching a Rolling Ball
Here are a series of activities to practice catching a rolling ball. There are specific directions and cues that are being scaffolded in this PE lesson. The scaffolding will also allow for a check to see what the players might need to...
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Follow the Leader Throw and Catch
Students perform various throwing and catching activities to music with a partner, with one partner as the leader, and the other copying the movements.
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Dodgeball: The 4-Week Lesson Plan
There's more to this game than just dodging! Here you'll find loads of activities and practice exercises for teaching your young athletes a variety of overarm/underarm throws, catches, dodges, and tactics.
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Catch Comparison
Students compare the differences in catching four different pieces of equipment. They, in groups, practice catching the items, and discuss which one was the easiest and hardest to catch, and graph their results.
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Throwing and Catching Medley
Students practice their throwing and catching skills while reinforcing cues learned previously in class. They throw and catch with a partner to music. They use at least six or seven different objects to hone their skills.
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Catching Self Assessment
Students perform a number of different ball tossing and catching skills while completing a self-assessment sheet.
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To The Beat
This activity is two-fold in that it addresses having youngsters get a feel for different rhythms in music and in practicing their underhand tossing skills. Gather all kinds of equipment to throw, such as: yarn balls, spider balls, and...
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Physical Education Lesson: Winter Station Activities
Students experience and participate in a variety of four winter station games. They assess the winter stations of Get the Candy Cane, What is in Your Stocking, Jingle Bell Basketball and Candy Cane Lane. Each student also experiences a...
Perkins School for the Blind
Beanbag Toss
Why is learning how to catch and toss so important? If one has visual impairments, learning this basic skill will help him increase orientation and mobility, coordination, and cognitive development,. Mastery of this skill will also mean...
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Chase the Ace
Chase the Ace is a great warm-up activity for all ages. Just make sure there is plenty of space to run around taking into consideration the number of players and the age of the players. Make the game challenging but not so difficult that...
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Catching and Throwing Circuit
Young scholars practice their catching and throwing skills. In this physical education instructional activity, students participate in a circuit activity that requires them to catch and throw using a variety of equipment.
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Ball Skills- Throwing and Catching
Students practice throwing and catching skills. In this ball skills lesson, students throw and catch beanbags using a proper throwing technique.
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Ghostbusters (tossing & catching scarves)
Students play a game with scarves to practice throwing and catching. They each have a scarf, sit in a circle, and sing a ghost-related song, playing various scarf tricks at the same time.
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Catching Toe Fish
Students perform a two-foot takeoff and landing using a jump rope. In this jumping lesson, students use a self-turned jump rope to develop the skill of a two-foot takeoff and landing. The students use the metaphor of "catching a fish" in...
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Throwing and Catching
Students determine if they can recognize and identify a critical element of throwing or catching in a photograph or picture.
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Catching Assessment: Part II
Students are given the opportunity to improve some of their catching skills. They practice catching using the cues of "pinky" fingers together to catch objects below their waist, and thumbs together for catching objects that are above the h
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Zoo Parade Days
Students practice proper throwing and catching activities, different locomotor activities and cooperative activities.
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EGG-Cercise Relays: Spring Fun Day
Students take part in a fun holiday circuit training activity that promotes good sportsmanship and encourages students to challenge themselves using a variety of throwing and catching tasks.
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Bean Bag Battle
Students practice catching and throwing skills in a dynamic setting. They become familiar with the utilization of the entire open space, along with concept of "getting open."
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Football Downs
Students attempt to grasp the concept of four downs in football. They practice using predetermined cues on skills such as: Grip, passing and catching a football, routes, making and running simple plays.
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Throw and Catch Tag
Students throw and catch, moving through general space safely amongst others.
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Lower Grade Basketball Activities
Students demonstrate basic knowledge about how to use a basketball properly. The teaching of the lesson is done through modeling and students assessment is done with drilling and practice with the basketball activities.