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Horton Hatches the Egg

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore space awareness and safe movement. In this movement/physical education lesson, students listen to the book Horton Hatches a Who. Students pretend to be Horton and rotate from hula hoop to hula hoop performing various...
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Zesty Kicken' Chicken Dance

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils become aware of spatial awareness as they stand in the middle of a hula hoop and perform "The Chicken Dance" to music. During the chorus, they run, hop, gallop, skip into other vacant hoops. Students follow directions given by the...
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Happy Easter Hunters

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners, given equipment, work with partners to try to get the balloon into the hula hoop. After a set number of balloons get into the hula hoop, students may go look for Easter Eggs
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Cooperation - Scooters

For Teachers K
Students find a partner and use a scooter with a rope tied to it. There are two hula hoops, one with balls in it and one with nothing in it with which the studentsl have to get all the balls from one hoop to the other hoop. One student...
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Getting to Know You

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners interview each other to find similarities and differences with their partner. They create a Venn diagram that displays their findings and then using hula hoops as a large scale model present their Venn diagram to the class as a...
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Toss by Color

For Teachers K
Students explore color recognition and demonstrate underhand toss skills. They participate in a game by lining up, and running to and recognizing the color of beanbag the teacher calls out, and toss that color beanbag through a hula-hoop.
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Clogged Arteries

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars participate in active demonstrations to explore the understanding of cholesterol in an artery. Students stand outside hula hoops to represent an artery. When they are tagged, they become a piece of cholesterol. Young...
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Volleyball Bonkers

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice aiming with the underhand hit in striking with short-handled implements to introduce them to a underhand hit in volleyball. They encounter the manipulatives of tape, hula hoops and a variety of balls to assist them with...
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Christmas Shopping

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars work in teams in teams of two and they have a hula hoop which represents their shopping bag and two hockey sticks to gather presents. They use the other side of the gym that has bean bags and fleece balls, which are...
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Turtle Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students review safety rules for playing a P.E. game and a few students are selected as the taggers. On the signal, students avoid being tagged by the tagger using only the locomotor skill selected. They who want to avoid an imminent tag...
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Can You Do This?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write paragraphs describing activities for classmates to perform using toys such as balls, jump ropes or hula hoops. They take turns reading their paragraphs while other students follow the directions.
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Dance - Kindergarten Moving Safely in Space

For Teachers K
Students experience dance and movement. In this kinesthetic lesson, students practice movement of their limbs and joints. They use a hula hoop to identify personal space.
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Coordination and Flexibility

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice controlling their motion and reflexes by participating in different motor skill activities.  In this physical education lesson, students utilize bean bags and hula hoops to help create flexibility and coordination in...
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Problem Solving

For Teachers K
Students identify problem solving strategies and demonstrate the ability to make choices using those strategies. In this problem solving lesson plan, students are introduced to vocabulary and strategies by playing a hula hoop game, then...
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Frisbee Horseshoes

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners follow directions and practice the skill of throwing a Frisbee toward a target. They then play a Frisbee game and practice working as a team while keeping score on their own.
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The Old Brass Wagon Hoop Dance

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students learn direction, skipping in rhythm, right side-left side recognition, and cooperation.
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Hoop Jump/Hop

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners integrate locomotor skills and math skills.
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Pokemon Tag

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students 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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Hungry Crabs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students improve upper body strength and endurance. They crab walk inside the boundaries and collect the bean bags. They are only allowed to get one bean bag at a time. Once they get a bean bag, they place it on their stomach and crab...
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Hungry Crabs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils improve upper body strength and endurance. They crab walk inside the boundaries and collect the bean bags. They are only allowed to get one bean bag at a time. Once they get a bean bag, they place it on their stomach and crab...
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Tic Tac Goal

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use hula hoops set up like a tic tac toe board to explore how to pass a ball by using the foot pass. Players must get their ball into one of the hula hoops to keep their ball.
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Pilgrim Needs a Home

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice skipping and hopping and understanding self space. Music begins playing and students are directed on what movement skill to do. When music stops students need to find a "home" by hopping or skipping into their...
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Wild Water Trivia

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students demonstrate proper swimming skills in an authentic environment. They use proper technique for whichever stroke is chosen while retrieving answers. They then bring it back to the shallow end and place it in the hula hoop.
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Spaceship Commander Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars 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...

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