What a great idea! Young athletes take backpacks with sports equipment home so they can practice their skills. Each backpack has different equipment to practice different skills. There are task cards in each of the backpack with...

Who doesn't want to play tag? Here's a nice movement activity to keep your class running about practicing hopping, jumping, leaping, skipping and whatever motor skills your can think of. I like that the taggers are not "IT" forever, and...

Pupils play a movement and freeze activity to jingle bells.

Learners perform various throwing and catching activities to music with a partner, with one partner as the leader, and the other copying the movements.

This activity is two-fold in that it addresses having youngsters get a feel for different rhythms in music and in practicing their underhand tossing skills. Gather all kinds of equipment to throw, such as: yarn balls, spider balls, and...

Students practice with the underhand toss in a fun culminating activity. First, 4-5 students make a circle. All circles should be close enough to the instructor to easily hear the story. Explain that each group be given an object to toss.

Students run clockwise around a track in the gym, pretending they are the blood that carries oxygen through the body. They go to the "mouth" station where they take three breaths and pick up an object that represents oxygen. Students...

Students practice with various objects for throwing and catching (one per each group of 3 students); four poly spots or other markers such as cones for each group.

Students travel across the floor on scooter and pick up objects to bring back.

Students practice their throwing and catching skills while reinforcing cues learned previously in class. They throw and catch with a partner to music. They use at least six or seven different objects to hone their skills.

Students throw objects overhand into containers in the center of the playing area.

Students practice and are assessed on the cue's of overhand throwing. They use a variety of objects to throw and aim at.

Learners are provided with the opportunity to practice proper body alignment when lifting, carrying and lowering an object.

Students are taught the concept of what looks the same and what looks different, with both objects and movement.

Students take a variety of poses to practice overhand throwing. In this overhand throw lesson, students participate as attackers (throwing the ball) or defenders (trapping the ball). Students will be assessed on their ability to...

Students practice various locomotor skills at six different stations. They move a 'bunny' down a 'trail' to track their progress. All of the activities must be done as a group and stress teamwork and sportsmanship.

Students demonstrate management skills specific to balance. For this physical education lesson students participate in activities with and without apparatus to improve balance. Students work at 8 stations to practice skills needed for...

Students play a ball game while divided into two teams. They show teamwork in scoring points and defending their goal

Students strengthen leg muscles while learning about the environment. In this environmental instructional activity, students use scooters to pick up poly spots from the floor. The poly spots are metaphors for trash.

Students explore a variety of traveling skills. They explain the concepts of moving over, under, around, and through objects while moving slowly, and under control.

Students improve their ability to catch and control an object with a plastic grocery sack.

Students play a game.  In this spatial and body awareness lesson, students play a game called straddleball.  Students practice throwing a ball, being spatially aware and playing a game with good sportsmanship.

Students work together using positive verbal affirmations in a relay game of passing an object with their feet.

Students practice using paddles to hit objects. For this striking skills lesson, students use wooden paddles to round up balloon farm animals without touching the balloons with their hands.