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Switch and Rotate
Students participate in a game whose object is to stay so close to a partner that when the teacher says "Stop," the players freeze. The follower should touch the leader.
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Locomotor Change Tag
Students are in scattered formation within the playing area. The identified chasers each have a foam ball. On the signal they chase using a locomotor movement. When tagged a students changes movement.
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Stinger Tag
Third graders, in teams, use an assigned color ball to hold as they move and tag.
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Spotting Good Serves
Pupils practice making accurate and consistant serves in a challenging situation.
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Frisbee Throw and Catch
Students practice throwing and catching a Frisbee with a partner. They start close together and take one step back after each successful throw and catch.
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Obstacles On Wheels
Students practice roller blading in a safe environment offering varying levels of skill challenges (slanted rope).
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Bean Bag Freeze
Students play an activity similar to tag. After the teacher sets up cones to designate boundaries, students receive a bean bag and scatter in the playing area.
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Dribble Tag
Students practice dribbling with their one hand while staying away from the designated taggers.
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Recycling Relay
Students improve their locomotor skills and their knowledge of recycling. They participate in a relay as they recycle different objects into their proper containers.
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Spell Tag
Students work on their spelling skills by spelling a word to get unfrozen if tagged.
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Mystery Puzzle Race
Learners work on fitness in stations where they are assigned specific tasks (ex. jumping jacks) that must be performed as a group before moving on to the next station.
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Mickey and Minnie's Freeze Tag
Students use various locomotor skills to explore how to play tag while role playing Mickey and Minnie mouse.
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Cheeto Tag
Students practice motor skills while playing this variation of tag. They learn the importance of hand washing in the activity.
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Field Trip to San Bruno
Young scholars contrast a weedy annual grassland of introduced species with an undisturbed, ancient plant community of native bunchgrasses and wildflowers.
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Scootin', Sounds & Sorting
Students work together while they use various locomotor skills to practice beginning sounds of words and the letters of the alphabet. They walk, run, skip, gallop (or any locomotor skill that the teacher requires be used) alongside the...
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Snowflake, Snowflake
Students practice locomotor and listening skills. Students pretend to be snowflakes. As the teacher reads about snowflakes, students perform the task mentioned. They walk, dance, jump, etc.
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My Pyramid Tag
Students explore the new My Pyramid five healthy food groups and their benefits. They become familiar with the five healthy food groups and the colors that represent each food group in the new My Pyramid.
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Linear Systems: Projections
In this projection worksheet, students determine the projections of a given matrix. This four-page worksheet contains explanations and examples and approximately ten problems to complete.
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What's That Habitat?
Fourth graders explore the environment by researching animal characteristics. For this habitat identification lesson, 4th graders utilize paper and crayons to illustrate their own habitats or homes and discuss what it contains that is...
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Our Solar System
Third graders describe the composition of our solar system. They recognize the names of the planets in our solar system and compare and contrast the nine planets that orbit the sun.
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States and Capitals of the United States
Learners label states and capitals on a United States map and complete research on one of the states. In this states lesson plan, students fill in the states on blank maps.
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Images of Our Changing Earth
Pupils identify and explain that remote sensing can detect changes on the Earth's surface that occur over time, and name at least three: urbanization, deforestation, and succession. They select a global change issue to investigate and...