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Cross-Curricular Games

For Teachers K - 8th
Students participate in exploring and examining several cross-curricular, hands-on games that encourage active learning and exercise at the same time. They assess games like Freeze Tag, Parts of Speech games and a healthy heart game, etc.
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Phys Ed Review

Physical Education Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Get active by dribbling a ball. Begin with a game of banana bunch and high five beanbag grab. Then, practice dribbling a ball, and identifying the part of the hand with which your active learners dribble. Finally, conclude with...
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Team Handball Lesson Plan 1

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn the game of team handball. In this cooperative games lesson, students examine the history, the rules, and the roles of players in order to participate in team handball.
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Beat the Ball

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students play a cooperative game.  In this health and fitness instructional activity, students organize a ball game and keep score. Students get into groups and try to make it to around all bases.
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The Human Knot

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice cooperative learning skills by finding a solution to the group's "knot."
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Invent a new game!

For Teachers K - 12th
Learners work in groups to create a new athletic game. In this creating a game lesson plan, students use athletic equipment to create a new game in groups.
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Guidance and Career Education: Pathways— Goal Setting and Action Planning

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Sooner or later, the learners in your class are going to move on to college and the professional world. Help them organize their goals with a project designed for groups, which prompts them to examine entry points and next steps for...
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Games Children Play: Then and Now

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine primary documents to discover similarities and differences in life today and life before.  For this toys then and now lesson, 2nd graders complete a graphic organizer to show how things have changed or stayed...
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Group Games

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners play several games as group to practice respect and social behaviors. In this group games instructional activity, students play spider web, foam ball passover, and silent ball. Learners demonstrate cooperation and enthusiasm...
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Ditto - A Cooperative Game

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners, in groups, first build/design something using equipment given. Then students write a detailed description of what they built. After all groups are finished they switch directions and try to build the other teams design by...
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Dragon's Jewels

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students play a game about dragons and jewels to learn cooperation, coordination, communication, and to have fun. In this dragons and jewels lesson plan, one group of knights guard the jewels, and one group of dragons try to get the jewels.
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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.  In this creating outdoor relay races lesson, students develop motor skills and engage in activities that encourage teamwork and creative thinking.  Students...
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Challenge Courses

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars engage in and invent a variety of organized outdoor play activities to encourage cooperation and motor development. In this outdoor activities lesson, students are divided into three groups and organized in lines. Young...
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Island Sinker

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students perform various locomotor skills while practicing cooperative teamwork. For this locomotor skill lesson, students move from "island" to "island" using the designated motor skill. Imaginative components such as escaping a "shark"...
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Nutrition

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate nutrition and nutrients. For this nutrition or diet lesson, groups of students create a poster, commercial, or skit about a nutriet which will be presented or performed to the rest of the class after...
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Hoop Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students play a modified game of tag. Given specific roles of "it" and "free-er," they try to remain outside of the hula hoops that have been placed on the gym floor. Students work cooperatively with the free-er to remain in the game.
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THE GRINCH, SANTA, AND THE CHIMNEY SWEEPERS

For Teachers K - 12th
Students learn aerobic endurance through game play.
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Island Hopping

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students collaborate to play a game. In this island hopping activity, students face obstacles and imaginary situations in which they have to problem solve in order to complete the task.
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Find the Missing Person

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students play 2 games where they are blind folded and have to work together. In this physical education lesson plan, students have to find a missing person, and play Animal Call Out.
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Theatre Lesson Plan

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete pantomime and improvisational theatre activities. In this theatre lesson, 2nd graders play a 'sound ball' game and recreate sounds as they toss the ball. Students discuss projection for an actor and practice the...
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Turkey Trot

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils work in small teams to find laminated feathers to bring back to their turkey. They use different locomotor skill each time they hunt for hidden feathers.
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Brace Yourself!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create a list of dental problems and tactics that can be used to correct them. They then study about how the field of orthodontics is changing, and work in cooperative groups to research and build models of how various types of...
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Exercise Stations

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in station activities in P.E. In this physical education lesson, students do station activities. Students start out with a warm up exercise then make their way to dance, bowling, scooters, jump rope,...
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Farm Animals: blind folded

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students yell out their farm animal noise while being blind folded and have to find their animal group. In this group activity lesson plan, students learn how to work together to achieve a common goal.