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Pass-It-Back Relays: Children are aces at creating their own races.

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Children participate in several relay games in small groups.  For this creating outdoor relay races lesson, students develop motor skills and engage in activities that encourage teamwork and creative thinking.  Students implement...
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Stewie the Duck Learns to Swim

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Make a splash with an interactive storybook that emphasizes water safety. Directed at preschoolers and primaries, the ducky tale and games reinforce the rules of wearing a life vest whenever near water, making sure to have a supervising...
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Summer Health Activity: Challenging Courses

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students invent outdoor activities. In this early childhood lesson plan, students practice cooperation and large motor skills while they engage in and invent a variety of organized outdoor play activities. The activities encourage...
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Musical Hoops

For Teachers Pre-K
Pre-schoolers gain a better understanding of personal space by playing this modified version of musical chairs. Played like musical chairs, students circle around a ring of hula hoops as music plays. When the music stops everyone needs...
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Challenge Courses

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students engage in and invent a variety of organized outdoor play activities to encourage cooperation and motor development. In this outdoor activities activity, students are divided into three groups and organized in lines. Students...
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Spatial Awareness and Understanding Directions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students follow directions. In this spatial awareness instructional activity, students play follow the leader around an obstacle course following simple directions. 
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Turtles, Dogs, and Elephants

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars explore personal space at low, medium, and high levels. In this physical education lesson, students participate in imaginary play imitating animals and their movement.
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Bubble Zappers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students participate in a movement activity. Students blow bubbles and try not to let them hit the ground. Students use party blowers to keep the bubbles from hitting the ground.
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Do As I Do

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lead your class in practicing gross motor body movements. Put on some background music and lead them through hops, skips, jumps, leaps, and running in place. Think of animal movements and have them move like an elephant or slither like a...
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How to Beat the Rainy Day Blues

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
With a little ingenuity, lively exercise can occur despite the weather.
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Take a Hike!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore the benefits of staying active by going on a hike.  In this physical education instructional activity, students discuss the concept of a hike, where a good place to hike is and what types of foods are necessary to stay...

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