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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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Mummy Ball
Students practice their hand and eye coordination in a ball throwing activity. In this physical education lesson, students participate in a game where they sit in a circle and throw to each other only once until everyone has had a...
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Spelling Tag
Students participate in a tag game to practice their weekly spelling words. Five students are chosen as "it" and run around chasing the other students. When a student is tagged, he/she must freeze until the teacher asks him/her a...
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Steal the Bacon
Students practice listening skills by playing the game, Steal the Bacon. They work in two groups to listen to numbers and try to get the "bacon" first before getting tagged by the opposing team. Working together, the teams solve math...
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Know Your Nose: Learning About the Sense of Smell
Students explore their senses of smell. In this sense of smell lesson, students read The Popcorn Dragon and research the sense of smell on a designated website. Students identify scents and play an Internet game based on the sense of smell.
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Forest Appreciation
Learners gain appreciation for the value of the forest. In this forest lesson, students discuss the benefits of forests and their products. They play a kinesthetic game about the consumers of the forest.
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The Ace of Soccer
Students use playing cards to determine the number of soccer passes and traps completed between partners. They add up passes at the end of the game. They can also tally face cards to see who received the most.
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Scrabble Laps
Students access that the purpose of this activity is to integrate physical fitness with spelling of core vocabulary words used in science and social studies. Students play the Scrabble Lap Game.
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Letter and Word Scramble
Students engage in a lesson designed to encourage the identification of letters and their characteristics, as well as moving them using a variety of locomotor skills. This done using the instructional strategy of playing a game.
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10 Rainy and Snow Day Activities for Indoor Recess and PE
Don't let the rain and snow put a damper on your PE lessons. This collection of indoor activities is a perfect way to keep students active regardless of the weather outside.
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Octopus
Students practice listening and responding to a question with confidence. After studying the names of various fruit, students play a New Zealand game called Octopus. The game can be used for any key words or phrases. It is fast paced...
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Mark Twain Olympics
Students, during the last week of the year, are placed into 12 teams to represent countries of the world. All of students participate in a school-wide Olympics that involves 4 rounds of fun activities.
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Sharks and Whales
Students will participate in a game to promote physical fitness. The outcome will be that learners will become more interested in fitness and remain engaged in the activity throughout its implementation.
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Passball
Students participate in an exercise activity that improves their coordination and understanding of team activities. In this physical education lesson, students work in teams to play a game similar to kickball.
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Pokemon Tag
Pupils play a tag variation game. Four different colored hula hoops are placed in the corners of the gym with a ball of the same color. Four students are selected to be the Pokemon taggers, they stand in their corresponding hula hoop....
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Physical Education Pictionary
Learners are introduced to a variety of physical education games and activities. In groups, they participate in the different games identifying the equipment and defining new vocabulary. To end the instructional activity, they play a...
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Switch and Rotate
Students participate in a game whose object is to stay so close to a partner that when the teacher says "Stop," the players freeze. The follower should touch the leader.
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Sharks and Barracudas
Students practice running and tagging. In this physical education lesson plan, students play a teamed game. The class is divided into two teams, sharks and barracudas, the sharks try to tag the barracudas. Once all students are...
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Running/Wiffle Ball
Students explain the basic rules for wiffle ball. In this physical education instructional activity, students record the steps they took during their 4 mile run. Additionally, students participate in a game of wiffle ball.
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Spell Tag
Students work on their spelling skills by spelling a word to get unfrozen if tagged.
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Knock Down
Students play knock down. In this physical education lesson plan, students try to knock down more pins, or cones than their rival team. The team that has the most cones up wins.
National Association for Sport & Physical Fitness
Indoor Physical Activity Ideas for Kids!
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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Video Lesson
Hats off to Barry for a great idea. He teaches Adapted PE to elementary school children, and when he is absent they often don't get to have PE. So he came up with this great plan to videotape short lessons that his pupils could follow,...
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