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Small-sided Soccer Skill Baseball
Learners play a game that emphasizes practice of all the basic soccer skills.
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Macarena Basketball Review
Students review basketball skills and are challenged to perform specific shills to the beat of music.
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Team Target Golf Chip
Pupils practice chipping golf balls towards a target. In teams, students chip golf balls into a hula hoop, getting one point for each ball that is chipped in the hula hoop.
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Newton's Laws and Winter Sports
Students investigate past winter Olympic games utilizing any skiing or snowboarding event to take Newton's Challenge. Helpful Web resources are provided and students enjoy learning science laws along with researching Olympic events.
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SOS: Save Our Ski Slopes
Students defend downhill skiing as an Olympic Games event by creating a presentation that graphically proves the economic impact and popularity of this event.
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Subtracting Integers: Math, Physical Education, Dancing, Negative Numbers
Students demonstrate their understanding of positive and negative integers by adding and subtracting. More importantly, students explain why a negative number, subtracted from a negative number, changes the operation.
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Rating a Quarterback in Football: Statistics, Math, Ratings
Students find out how football statistics are derived, compute quarterback ratings for themselves and interpret quarterback ratings in order to investigate what a player must do to improve ratings.
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What in the World Is Snowboarding?
Students research the sport of snowboarding in-depth, and divide into small groups to create an entertaining, multimedia newsletter on the sport.
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Women in Skiing: Winter Sports, Gender Roles, Discrimination, Women's History
Students create a newsletter about women in skiing, addressing issues of gender discrimination in sports and women's achievements.
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Cardiovascular Fitness
Middle schoolers design a cardiovascular fitness program that encourages them to implement it in their daily lives.
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Cooperative Handball
Students play a ball game while divided into two teams. They show teamwork in scoring points and defending their goal
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Even/Odd Math Dribble
Students review math facts while interchanging dominant and non-dominant dribbling.
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Scooter Bring Back
Students travel across the floor on scooter and pick up objects to bring back.
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Forming Groups
Students create groups (teams) the way a teacher hopes they -- various different ideas are presented.
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Healthy Haunted House
Students participate in a fitness activity that relates to the time of year. They rotate to stations participating in P.E. activities with seasonal names.
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Throw Everything
Students throw objects overhand into containers in the center of the playing area.
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Math Tag
Students work on solving arithmetic problems with a game of tag. They must solve a problem to be unfrozen.
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Lights, Camera, Action
Pupils learn the rules and protocols for the physical education classroom by videotaping scenarios from the PE classroom.
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Fortune Cookie Warmup
Students participate in various physical warm-up activities after reading their "fortune."
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Fitness/Strength Conditioning Mini-lesson
Students describe a piece of strength conditioning equipment, what muscle (or muscles) are isolated, and how strengthening this muscle improve skill performance in the unit they are presently taking.
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Small/Large Sided Games Assessment
Learners play two versions of soccer--one with a full team and one with only two or three players. Then they assess they physical effects of both games--their heart rates, etc.
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Pata Pata Pat Pat
Learners are exposed to the arts with a simple, introductory rhythm/dance activity which can lead into the traditional Pata Pata folk dance, or dance in general.