Students participate in the Hokey Pokey dance while demonstrating various aerobic/cardiovascular moves. They check their heart rates before and after the dance.

Students bowl and their score of downed pins determines a specific exercise, i.e. a score of 5 might be to do 10 jumping jacks. They who roll a spare or a strike can decide the exercise for the group.

Students learn aerobic endurance through game play.

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.

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.

Third graders complete several sports activities with simulated disabilities. They reflect on the inherent difficulties and brainstorm modifications for each activity.

Third graders follow a rubric to create a gymnastic tumbling routine set to music. They videotape and review their performances.

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...

Young scholars tag classmate with balls.

Students practice proper dribbling skills and work on identifying invertebrates as one of four major types.

Students practice throwing for distance and for accuracy.

Young scholars focus on qualities demonstrated by successful learners. They create a graph or chart to keep track of the STARS points.

Learners learn a dance to the song "Seven Jumps."

Students to practice overhand throwing in a game situation. They use balls of yarn to practice their throwing skills.

Students practice and improve their dribbling skills in a game-like situation, by dribbling through a maze.

Learners 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.

Students reinforce the cues involved in order to successfully trap a soccer ball with the sole of their foot.

Students complete the assessment sheet to demonstrate their knowledge about the skill of rope jumping.

Young scholars practice chasing and fleeing skills by playing the game Ghost in the Graveyard.

Pupils 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.

Learners evaluate the fitness potential of different activities using pedometers in game/play/exercise situations.

Students move safely in general space to practice transferring weight skills such as a log roll, cartwheel, forward roll, egg roll, leap over, walk over, etc.

Students participate in a trivia game and follow directions during a down time.

Students practice bouncing a basketball with their right and left hands as well as running while bouncing.