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Keep Your Brain in the Game: Grades 3-5

3rd - 5th
Boost physical activity as well as concept proficiency with brief bursts of movement. Before taking a test, scholars vote on five exercises to complete from a set of 8 cards. After two minutes, learners begin their work with heightened...
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Decimal Baseball

4th - 6th
Young mathematicians represent recorded information in decimal form. In this decimals activity, learners play a "classroom friendly" basketball game in which pupils take 10 shots. Number of shots made out of 10 is recorded as a fraction...
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Basketball Passing

2nd
Second graders practice dribbling and passing a basketball. They also learn the correct finger position for dribbling and how to place their feet when passing.
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Everyone's Playing Basketball

3rd - 5th
To foster number sense and build problem solving skills, pupils will work through a complex word problem. They will be asked to analyze the data given, solve the problem, then share their thinking process with the class. This activity...
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Shooting Baskets-Relay Game

K - 5th
Students demonstrate how to shoot baskets during a relay race. In this physical education lesson, students work in teams and shoot basketballs into the hoops as fast as they can. Each person must make one shot. The first team to finish...
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Spelling Free Throw (Elementary, Games)

2nd - 5th
Students run to the chalk board to spell a given word, pick up a basketball, dribble to the hoop and make one shot, run the basketball back to their starting place to score points for their team.
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How to Bounce a Ball

K - 3rd
Students practice bouncing a basketball with their right and left hands as well as running while bouncing.
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Basketball Relays

1st - 3rd
Students have basketball relays with the basketball and examine how to dribble the basketball and control the basketball without letting it get away. After much practice, they examine how to move quickly with the basketball.
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Snack Smart Move More

K - 5th
Show your kids that staying healthy is the smart choice! They examine nutrition, healthy snacks, and the importance of staying active in a several-part lesson plan. There are different ideas for older and younger students here, and you...
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100 Balls

K - 2nd
Young scholars perform locomotor skills such as throwing balls while counting up to 100. For this 100th day of school physical education lesson, the students play a Hungry, Hungry Hippos game to perform the throwing technique. There are...
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Olemmpics

3rd - 4th
Students explore Olympic sports and competition. After a brief discussion of the structure and purpose of the Olympics, students complete an Olympic themed competition complete with games, ceremonies, and medals.
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Zombie Tag

K - 5th
Students play a game of Zombie Tag. In this Zombie Tag instructional activity, students participate in a chase and tag game. They walk slowly and stiffly when they are Zombies and run when they are doing the chasing. They "turn into"...
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The Fraction Race

3rd
The students participate in a game involving a hula hoop and basketballs. After each student participates in the activity, they write their game score in fraction form using the points they earned over the points possible.
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High Five Lay-ups

4th - 5th
Students move about the general space in the gym pretending to dribble and shoot a basketball. Two students are designed as taggers who "Freeze" other players with their hand HIGH in the air. Students who are not frozen must give a "High...
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Respect for Self and Others—Giving and Getting the Big R

7th Standards
Tween find out what it means to give and get respect. After reviewing the Recipe for Relationships studied in a previous lesson, groups create a dramatization of two-minute scenario in which an individual behaves inappropriately in a...
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Physical Education and Music Program

3rd - 8th
Teach everyone how to work together in both physical education and music activities. Parents and their children are shown a presentation that highlights the philosophy of cooperation. They apply these concepts to their physical education...
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Adding Punctuation

2nd - 5th
Young scholars explore using correct punctuation in their sentences. they discuss the various punctuation rules. Students practice putting the correct punctuation in a list of sentences.
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Highway Tag

3rd - 5th
Students choose one space on a line as their personal space while other classmates are choseen to be the taggers. Individually, they move along the line staying clear of the taggers. Within a specific time limit, new taggers are chosen.
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Finding the Subject

3rd - 5th
Students explore sentences to locate subjects. In this language lesson, students investigate methods to locate subjects in sentences and practice doing so.
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Understanding Simple and Complete Predicates

2nd - 6th
Students study simple and complete predicates. They explore the simple and complete predicates in a variety of sentences. Students identify both simple and complete predicates. They use simple and complete predicates correctly in their...
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Mystery Words - Part Two - School Terms

3rd - 4th
Students increase their vocabularies with the mystery words activity. In this vocabulary lesson, students solve the mystery words using clues.