Students explore space awareness and safe movement. In this movement/physical education lesson plan, students listen to the book Horton Hatches a Who. Students pretend to be Horton and rotate from hula hoop to hula hoop performing...

First graders perform a variety of locomotor skills to enhance aerobic fitness and explain different movements that can be used to keep fit and active.

Students review key locomotor skills and the rules of the spaceship commander tag. They choose 3 students to be Space Commanders and the rest of the students are aliens. The game is played using different locomotor movements

Students spread out in general space. Have 2/4 students be the taggers. On the teachers signal the activity starts with the taggers trying to tag the "runners". When taggeg, students then go to an area and perform an exercise.

Students play a chasing, fleeing game after choosing an animal to role play.

Learners act like groundhogs in order to practice the skills of chasing, fleeing, and dodging.

Learners experience various types of play. They determine play is the way a child learns and describe the value of play. They discover that play is a child's natural way of learning and that children test and practice new physical,...