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Spaceship Commander Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students review key locomotor skills and the rules of the spaceship commander tag. They choose 3 students to be Space Commanders and the rest of the students are aliens. The game is played using different locomotor movements
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Food Group Craze

For Teachers K - 12th
Students play a game to learn or reinforce prior learning of the food groups within the food guide pryamid.
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Nuke Walk

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Take a look at this cooperative learning activity. The goal of the activity is to transport nuclear waste (a cup of water) from point A to point B without spilling the toxic waste. There are several ideas given here for things to use to...
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Hot Hoops

For Teachers K
Students work on jumping and landing skills and cooperation. This lesson enables students to better use in space, while learning different colors. In this game, everyone is a winner.
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The Rain Game

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students simulate the precipitation process by playing a game. They simulate the behavior of actual cloud drops and rain drops.
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Wheelchair Basketball

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
The class practices bounce passes and chest passes to improve their basketball skills. They get to play a modified basketball game with no dribbling allowed. You could incorporate several modifications into this lesson to accomodate...
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Physical Education Lesson: Winter Station Activities

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experience and participate in a variety of four winter station games. They assess the winter stations of Get the Candy Cane, What is in Your Stocking, Jingle Bell Basketball and Candy Cane Lane. Each student also experiences a...
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Survivor!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers play a game in physical education class to examine how a deer survives. Using nature as a guide, they discover how it is constantly changing due to weather, food, water, pollution and predators. They discuss the...
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Pokemon Tag

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students play a tag variation game. Four different colored hula hoops are placed in the corners of the gym with a ball of the same color. Four students are selected to be the Pokemon taggers, they stand in their corresponding hula hoop....
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Tic Tac Goal

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use hula hoops set up like a tic tac toe board to explore how to pass a ball by using the foot pass. Players must get their ball into one of the hula hoops to keep their ball.
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Pilgrim Needs a Home

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice skipping and hopping and understanding self space. Music begins playing and students are directed on what movement skill to do. When music stops students need to find a "home" by hopping or skipping into their...
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Spaceship Commander Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in a gross motor and locomotor game of tag. A group of students, spaceship commanders, work together to capture all of the "aliens" in the class while wearing hula hoops and practicing a variety of locomotor movements.
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Hooper Dooper Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students play a rendition of tag. They use hula hoops to freeze and unfreeze players on the field. Complete rules included in plan.
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Turkey Strut

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students begin moving around the general space using the locomotor movement which you call out, while avoiding stepping inside the hoops. When the music stops they need to find a hoop to stand in, a la "musical chairs"
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Winter Holiday Stations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students reinforce skills already learned in a fun activity before the Holidays. They participate in such games as Candy Cane Bowling, Stocking Stuffers, Jingle Bell Basketball, and Candy Cane Lane.
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Healthy Eaters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students classify foods as "healthy" or "unhealthy" and sort foods into appropriate food groups. In this nutrition/physical education lesson, students play a game in which throwing skills are practiced. Pictures of food are sorted into...
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Winter Olympics Stations

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students experience various Winter Olympic sports in Physical Education class. In this Winter Olympics lesson, students participate in stations which represent the Olympic games. These representative stations include a biathlon, cross...
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Foam Ball Passover

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work together using positive verbal affirmations in a relay game of passing an object with their feet.
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Life Cycle of Hawaii's Honu

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students simulate the life cycle of Hawaii's Honu. In this Science lesson, students act out the life cycle of the Hawaiian sea turtle. Students determine and play the roles of prey and predator.
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Field of Fun Day

For Teachers K - 6th
Students get to showcase many of the different activities taught during their year in physical education classes. They also get to perform some activities just for fun.Great end of the year activity.
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Football Bingo

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers develop the football skills of passing, hiking, catching, and dodging by playing game related to Bingo. They participate in variations of the game.
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Soccer Golf

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice soccer kicking skills. In this soccer skills instructional activity, students participate in a game as they use the inside of their foot to kick the ball toward numbered cones.
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King and Queen of the Jewels

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play a game in physical education class. They try to steal "jewels" from the other students in order to become the new "King or Queen of the Jewels."
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Titanic Challenge

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils engage in this lively game that helps them develop communication/cooperation skills and strategy development.

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