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Throw Everything
Students throw objects overhand into containers in the center of the playing area.
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Same and Different
Students are taught the concept of what looks the same and what looks different, with both objects and movement.
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Locomotor Treasure Hunt
Students practice in refining their locomotor skills and developing their understanding of pathways and basic map reading skills.
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Catching Self Assessment
Students perform a number of different ball tossing and catching skills while completing a self-assessment sheet.
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Crosby Rush
Young scholars develop their striking skills by trying to score a hockey goal. In this striking skills lesson plan, students use hockey sticks and small balls to practice scoring a goal.
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The Nest Striking Activity
Students demonstrate striking skills and multiplication facts. In this striking skills lesson, students use multi-colored hoops to practice their striking accuracy. Students track their accuracy in various ways, such as the total number...
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Sports Matching Game
In this matching worksheet, students draw a line to match the sports words with the pictures of the players. Students match 8 answers.
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Crossword Puzzle About Sports
In this crossword puzzle about sports worksheet, 4th graders fill in the puzzle about sports using the clues and the word bank on the page.
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Slings
Students take three shots at the designated target using a slingshot. They strive to keep all of the shots close to the target or to improve with each shot; by getting closer each time.
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Motion Capture and Analysis
Students investigate the concepts and relationships of speed, displacement and time. They capture the serve motion of a tennis player via video or digital camera and analyze the speed of the ball and racquet head.
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6-8 Meter Madness
Students identify time signatures, the down beat, and begin to understand conducting patterns. In this meter patterns lesson, students identify the signs for 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 and play an excerpt from a song. Students use tennis balls to...
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Candyland Fitness
Students explore physical fitness by incorporating a class game into their sport activities. In this physical education lesson, students draw cards in a similar style to the game Candyland, except these cards instruct the students to...
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May the Force be with You -- All about Force and Gravity
Here is a fabulous set of teacher's notes that will make your next hands-on gravity and force lab fun and interesting. These notes provide you with three activities that allow children to make and test hypothesis regarding force,...
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Multiple Choice: Sports
In this sport worksheet, students complete a set of 8 questions about sports. Answers are included on page 2. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Service Anyone?
Students get numerous opportunities to practice an overhand serve in both the deuce and the ad courts.
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Summer Olympic Event Project
Students research the Summer Olympic Games and the activities that the athletes compete in. They select a topic area to research and complete the assessment piece.
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One Step Throw & Catch
Students, in pairs, choose a ball to throw back and forth between them about 9 feet apart (i.e., 3 giant steps). After making a catch both students take one giant step backwards. If a student misses a catch they move one giant step...
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Cue Wall
Students explore a visual look at the cues for each skill theme taught. They review all the cues that they discuss and practice in PE class. They examine the theme and cues and reminders of cues while working on the theme.
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Push Up Routine
Students improve upper body strength (push-ups). This can be used as part of a strength warm-up or as a fitness station.
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Balloon Round-Up
Students practice using paddles to hit objects. In this striking skills lesson, students use wooden paddles to round up balloon farm animals without touching the balloons with their hands.
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Truyen-Truyen: A Vietnamese Game
Students discover the various types of games children play in Vietnam. In groups, they play Truyen-Truyen, a game that is similiar to jacks. They spread chopsticks on the ground and bounce a ball. The player who can pick up the greatest...
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Electric Charge
Students discover and identify positive and negative electrical charges and understand that like repels and opposite charges attract. In this physics lesson, students observe how friction can be used to give electrical charge to various...