Curated OER
Making Connections
Fifth graders take part in activities that appeal to many learning styles (kinesthetic, verbal, etc...) to help them create a Venn Diagram to compare/contrast state and national government.
Curated OER
Sea Turtles
Students investigate eight different species of sea turtles while being involved in classroom lecture and video presentation. The characteristics used to identify sea turtles is taught to help students identify unknown species.
Curated OER
Service Anyone?
Students get numerous opportunities to practice an overhand serve in both the deuce and the ad courts.
Curated OER
Mater Your Munchies
Students explore the various food groups while doing a physical activity.
Curated OER
Compettion at its Best
Sixth graders role play predators, prey and other parts of the aquatic ecosystem. They show inter and intra-specific competition as well as the link between abiotic and biotic components in an ecosystem. Students play games about the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Hoop! There It Is!
In this lesson, students will learn how to use a hula hoop and practice balancing, stretching, and twisting.
Other
Active for Life: Jumping, Hopping & Skipping
A series of activities to practice motor skills using jump ropes, cones, and hula hoops.
PE Central
Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Hoop Jumper
Students practice and improve their jumping and landing skills through using different types of jumping patterns. This fun gym-class activity, which is a variation of "tag," reqires music, hula hoops for each student, and vests and foam...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Scientific Observations: A Schoolyard Bio Blitz
For this activity, middle schoolers are instructed in how to make scientific observations. They apply this skill in the schoolyard, recording on large paper what they observe inside a hula hoop placed on the ground.