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Twelve Days of Christmas Dancercise
Students participate in a dance routine set to the song The Twelve Days of Christmas. They monitor their heart rate and learn a new song.
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Beat the Grinch
Students move safely about the entire gym on scooters, picking up bean bags one at a time, placing them in a basket. This is a good warm up activity to be used for the first 5-10 minutes of class.
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Locomotor License
Students participate in a simulation to practice motor skills and moving safely in the space they share with others.
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Sports for All
Third graders complete several sports activities with simulated disabilities. They reflect on the inherent difficulties and brainstorm modifications for each activity.
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We Tumble Together
Third graders follow a rubric to create a gymnastic tumbling routine set to music. They videotape and review their performances.
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Vibrations
Students explore how vibrations create sound by strumming a rubber band. They feel the vibration of their own vocal chords. Then they explore the motion of sound waves and echoes. They rely on their own hearing to locate others in their...
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Upper Grade Basketball Activities
Third graders practice basketball skills with a variety of skills and games.
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Hula Hoop Hoopla
Students participate in various activities using the hula hoop. They should follow directions given and experience a variety of locomotor and manipulative movements. They study to work as an individual and a team member.
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Tackling Mean - Median and Mode
Second graders wear a favorite sports jersey to school. They calculate the mean, median and mode of the numbers represented on the jerseys. They present and explain their calculations to the class.
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Invertebrate Dribbling
Students practice proper dribbling skills and work on identifying invertebrates as one of four major types.
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Throwing for Distance/Accuracy
Learners practice throwing for distance and for accuracy.
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S.T.A.R.S. Program
Students focus on qualities demonstrated by successful learners. They create a graph or chart to keep track of the STARS points.
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Indoor Snowball Game
Students to practice overhand throwing in a game situation. They use balls of yarn to practice their throwing skills.
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Dribbling Maze
Students practice and improve their dribbling skills in a game-like situation, by dribbling through a maze.
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Twist and Shout Stations
Students participate in three different physical education stations while Chubby Checker's song Twist and Shout plays. They pump up an empty bicycle tube at station 1, jump rope at station 2, and dance at station 3.
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Getting Into Shape
Students recognize lines and corners as properties of geometric figures and identify shapes based on these characteristics. They move through a variety of stations practicing tossing, throwing, tallying and recording combinations of shapes.
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Trapping a Soccer Ball
Students reinforce the cues involved in order to successfully trap a soccer ball with the sole of their foot.
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Jump Rope Assessment
Students complete the assessment sheet to demonstrate their knowledge about the skill of rope jumping.
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Traffic Light Tag
Students practice moving at slow and fast speeds. They are given a red, yellow and green ball, each representing its corresponding traffic light. When tagged, that student must then move at the speed associated with the color ball that...
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The Ghost In The Graveyard
Students practice chasing and fleeing skills by playing the game Ghost in the Graveyard.
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Make a Word
Students work in a group to develop words from letters they collect during the activity. The words can be general or from their weekly spelling list. They practice different locomotor skills while using scooters to move.
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Steps to Fitness (with pedometers)
Students evaluate the fitness potential of different activities using pedometers in game/play/exercise situations.