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Four Square

For Teachers K - 1st
Students, as "Big Buddies", teach little buddies the rules and play with them. They review rules for four square and practice. They talk about playing gently when they are teachers and answer questions as they come up, and encourage...
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Sunspots or Lumpy Planets

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine the method Galileo used to prove sunspots were actually on the sun instead of objects between the Earth and Sun.. They study the term foreshortening and assess its relevance to observation.
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Theoretically Speaking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners define probability. They determine outcome from a given situation based on simple probability. Students create experimental data using a coin and a number cube. They write how theoretical and experimental probability are different.
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Movement concepts

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students recognize the connection between food labels and exercise. In this health lesson, students understand how many times they need to dribble to work off a snack.  Students answer questions about the exercise.
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Stop the Presses

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students bring in newspapers, focusing on sports, living, or general news sections. They discuss newspapers and their daily usage, and study the layout of the newspaper, incorporating the story with pictures.
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Zoo Parade Days

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice proper throwing and catching activities, different locomotor activities and cooperative activities.
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Pumpkin Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students, as trick or treaters. move around the gym performing various locomotor movements. The witch moves on a broomstick. If the witch tags a trick or treater they turn into a ghost and must stay where they are and move like a ghost.
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Fancy Dribbling

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars enter the playing area and pick up a ball of their choice to dribble. Then find a good self space and face the teacher with the ball between their feet. When the music starts they are to dribble all over the playing area.
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High Ten Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students are scattered within the playing area. Chasers have a foam ball. They chase the other students. When someone is tagged,they freeze with their hands over their head. They jump up and give a high five to unfreeze someone.
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Equipment Fun/Forming Groups

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students practice creative and safe play using P.E. equipment by themselves and with a partner.
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21 - Football

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students practice catching and throwing while being defended and defending areas of a field.
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Fitness Speedway

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in push-ups, crunches, jumping jacks, curls with dynabands, and different inverted balances.
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Similar or Not?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders define the meaning of similar and congruent using concrete objects. They make similar and congruent figures using geoboards. They draw their figures on dot paper, and color their designs.
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Changing unhealthy eating habits

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners identify the elements of a balanced diet, then compile a daily diet and exercise log to assess their lifestyles and improve them if applicable. They recognize and explain the importance of proper nutrition practices.
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Toys in Space

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Pupilsexplore how gravity affects the operation of toys and simple machines. They watch a video and experiment with simple machines.
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Focus on Fathers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students view excerpts from the video, Hardwood, and discuss the positive and negative attributes of fathers. They write letters to people who have been an important influence in their lives.
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3rd Rock from the Sun's Baby Rock

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders have a chance to actively see each phase of the moon and make connections to what they see in the sky when you show how the moon goes through each of the phases.
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Motion Capture and Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students capture the serve motion of a tennis player with a digital or video camera. Using transparencies or a software package, analyze the speed, acceleration, displacement and time of the racquet head and ball in the tennis stroke.
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Offensive and Defensive Strategies

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders are introduced to offensive and defensive strategies in the game of soccer. They, in groups, develop their own strategies, write them down for presentation to the instructor and try them out against an opposing team.
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Nature of Game Balls

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders see how, when balls are dropped from the same height, mass and size affects the motion of the balls.
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Mobile-ize

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, using a minimum of four space figures, create a mobile. They use a "Draw" program to first plan out their figure.
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Smorgasboard of Control

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice dribbling and trapping a variety of balls.
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Halloween Stations

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students rotate through Halloween named stations in the gym using their throwing and striking skills.
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Dribbling Speedway

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students control a ball while dribbling with hands and feet through obstacles. This is a heart healthy activity that accompanies the completion of several tasks as they reach their assigned station.

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