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PE Laws of the Land
Learners practice the LAWS and their SECRET SIGNALS following directions on posters indicating the "PE LAWS of the LAND"
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Tennis Backhand
Learners learn the backhand for use in a tennis match. They complete a proper backhand stroke successfully without feeling frustrated or confused.
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Hokey Pokey Aerobics
Students participate in the Hokey Pokey dance while demonstrating various aerobic/cardiovascular moves. They check their heart rates before and after the dance.
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Haunted House Challenge Fitness Stations
Learners rotate through ten physical fitness stations. They perform various stretching and strengthening activities for three minutes at a time.
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Sing Along with the Muscles Song
Students review the muscles of the body. They perform the functions of the muscles of the body to the tune of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer".
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Shrek Tag
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the game of freeze tag that is adapted using the movie characters from "Shrek". Each one takes on the role of one of the characters with a role to play when tagged by the taggers.
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Muscles Word Search
In this health worksheet, students find the words related to naming all the muscles and the answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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The Value of Exercise: I've Got Muscles!
Exercise and building of muscles are the focus of this health worksheet. Students read a passage which describes voluntary vs. involuntary muscles, then complete a word search which has many types of exercise words hidden in it. An...
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Questions Bulls Eye
In this questions worksheet, students learn to write questions by connecting the sentence starters to two middle and ending sections.
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It Is the Little Things That Count
Third graders are introduced to the importance of warm-ups, stretching, hydration and cool-downs in exercise. They perform these activities and discuss any observations.
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Fitness Tag
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.
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Muscle Tag
Students get a yarn ball and find a good self space in the playing area (best designated by cones-NOT the walls of a gym). On the teacher's signal students walk and try to tag anyone and everyone in the area.
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Turkey exercises
Students draw a colored feather out of a turkey made from a bag and colorful paper feathers. Each color feather corresponds to a different exercise that students must perform.
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Alphabet Soup
Students play a game in which they use the letters of the alphabet and different motor skills for review.
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"Know How" to Line Up
Students identify and define several movements physically acted out. They participate in a freeze activity in which they line up performing different movements. For example, they line up (1) if they are doing a strength exercise, (2)...
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Junie B.'s Muscle Mania
In this muscles worksheet, learners fill in the names of 5 muscles from a word bank (with clues) in a diagram of a runner. This is related to the Junie B. Jones series and the directions are written in Junie-style language.