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Extension Activity Building a Healthy Classroom Community
Workout buddies aren't just for adults! Learners discuss the benefits of 60 minutes of physical activity each day and generate ideas for how they can accomplish this by working toward a goal with friends.
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Passport to the World Field Day
Students participate in a variety of cultural activities from around the world. In this multicultural lesson, students visit a variety of "stations", each representing a country. Students learn facts and engage in a physical activity at...
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Celebrate Christmas
First graders explore Christmas through a variety of grouping activities in PE class. Students are actively involved in the learning process.
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Benefits of Cycling
Fourth graders discuss cycling and create a list of good effects from cycling. In this cycling lesson plan, 4th graders design a leaflet or poster to encourage cycling. Students debate the benefits of cycling.
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Horton Hatches the Egg
Learners explore space awareness and safe movement. In this movement/physical education instructional activity, students listen to the book Horton Hatches a Who. Learners pretend to be Horton and rotate from hula hoop to hula hoop...
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Trick or Treat!
Students demonstrate faking abilities in activities. They fake out other students in dodging and chasing activities.
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Food Groups and the Food Guide Pyramid
Students read and explain food labels and decide in which part of the food guide pyramid selected food items belong.
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Marathon Kids: 5 Fun Running Pe Running Games
The following five PE running games are fun for students of all ages and will help you keep things fresh for your gym class.
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Pe Central: Jump the River
Young children practice jumping and landing while using proper arm movements to ensure safety and balance. At this website, find a description of the game, "Jump the River," including ideas for demonstrating it in class, ways of varying...
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Animal Fun
Young scholars practice and improve their jumping and landing skills as they play this fun game and imitate the jumping styles of frongs, kangaroos, rabbits, and gazelles.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Football Bingo
This is a fun activity through which students not only practice football skills like passing, hiking, catching, dodging, and carrying, but also get an aerobic workout. "Football Bingo" combines football, bingo, and capture-the-flag in a...
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Pe Central: Mini Golf
Introduce learners to golf-putting through a fun game of miniature golf. Build a nine or eighteen-hole golf course in the gym using gymnastic mats, carpet squares, and drinking cups. Then have students, in groups, play the entire course...