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Animal Actions

For Teachers Pre-K
Students practice various movements. For this locomotor lesson, students participate using various movements to move around an obstacle course created by the teacher.
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Jingle Shapes!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students play a movement and freeze activity to jingle bells.
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Arts Impact and Math

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders incorporate math into dancing. In this algebra lesson, 3rd graders identify different shapes and patterns using dance movements. They relate the different creations to polygons as they incorporate the use of stretchy bands...
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Fitness

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice exercise.  In this physical fitness lesson, 3rd graders participate in a variety of activities at fitness stations.  Students run laps, jump rope, perform chin-ups, sit-ups, etc. 
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Winner's Court

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders demonstrate a variety of skills in sports and game activities. They showcase their abilities in an active volleyball setting. They use locomotor movements as well as manipulative skills and implement these in a...
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Circle of Friends Tag

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice tagging others safely and moving safely in one general space. They participate in a variety of activities and games to promote tagging others safely and playing with others safely and cooperatively. Each student also...
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Spaceship Commander Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in a gross motor and locomotor game of tag. A group of students, spaceship commanders, work together to capture all of the "aliens" in the class while wearing hula hoops and practicing a variety of locomotor movements.
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Line Boogie

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students complete an activity to improve their spatial awareness and loco-motor skills. In this spatial and loco-motor skills lesson, students pass a beanbag down the line of students.
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Wipe-Out Silent Jump Rope Workout

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students listen to the song "Wipe-Out". Individually, they jump with their invisible jump rope while the drums play and use different movements when the guitar plays. To end the lesson, they practice all of the locomotor skills they have...
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Instruments In Action

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read and demonstrate eight measures of four beats. In this music reading instructional activity, students read and demonstrate through movement their mastery of eight measures of four beats. Students also classify instruments.
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Healthy Food Color Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are scattered around the room preparing for a game of tag. As a class, they are to stay away from those that are "it" and complete the different locomotor skills as directed by their teacher. To end the lesson, they identify a...
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Wipeout (Dancing Legs) Tag

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students choose to dance or do a stationary swimming movement within this activity. They play a game of noodles and taggers. The teacher explains the rules to the game and then the game begins.
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Wipeout (Dancing Legs) Tag

For Teachers K - 12th
Students participate in physical education activities such as dancing or completing stationary swimming movements. They perform various actions to specified instruments such as guitars and drums. Students attempt to stay away from...
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Civil War and Beyond

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders play a game.  For this Civil War lesson, 6th graders discuss the beginnings of the Civil War and define vocabulary words associated with the war such as abolitionist and Emancipation Proclamation.  Students play a game of...
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Animal Antics

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students start at a posted cone with the picture of an animal of your choice. They move as they perceive that animal to get to one of the other cones. Upon arriving at another cone they repeat the process until they have portrayed all...
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Jumping Rope

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders jump rope for five jumps in a row while swinging the rope forward and jumping on both feet, swinging the rope forward and jumping on one foot, to build locomotor skills with a manipulative. They also listen for the...
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Who's Here Today?

For Teachers Pre-K
Students sing a song while clapping their hands and listening for the first letter of their name. In this attendance activity, students participate in locomotor activities such as turning around and squatting down. Students jump up and...
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Place Value Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students increase their cardiovascular endurance through movement. At the same time, they learn place value of numbers to the millionths place.
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Hula Hoop Hoopla

For Teachers K - 2nd
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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Strength

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in static and dynamic activities to develop muscle strength and balance. Free weights are used to work on shoulder, bicep, and tricep muscles. Locomotor skills of hopping, jumping, leaping, skipping, and galloping...
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Jump Jump Jump

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners demonstrate their ability to jump rope. For this jump rope lesson, students are divided into small groups and complete each jump challenge.
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Physical Education Lesson Plan: Fortune Cookies

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars investigate movement.  In this physical education instructional activity, students select a "fortune cookie" made from crumpled paper and read the directions inside.  Young scholars perform locomotor skills by following...
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Vitamin A

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify and pat the beat. They move to and play quarter notes, half notes, and eighth notes to create a "factory" movement and instrument improvisation. Students get into groups of three. Each person in the group moves to one...
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Spot Jumping

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars practice two-foot take-offs for jumping and a one foot for a hopping. They practice locomotor skill to music.

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