Students perform at five fitness stations a day for a week. Each fitness station be based on a benefit of vigorous physical activity.

Students gain an understanding of how activities should be modified for the physically challenged.

Students practice their knowledge of states and capitals while at the same time working on motor skills. This activity also promotes working together in small groups.

Students move around the gym to music, and when the music stops, they sit on a balloon. Inside each balloon are directions for another physical activity students should do.

Learners explore the challenges of the Lewis and Clark Expedition through a physical education simulation. For this cross-curriculum physical education lesson, students work in groups of three to log 8000 steps, stopping to participate...

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.

In this Wisconsin instructional activity, students use a word bank to match words/phrases to statements about the state of Wisconsin. A reference web site is given for additional activities.

Young scholars particpate in an introductory lesson to skipping. They move in and out of spaces, whenever they come to a line on the floor they must jump over it. They repeat the actions just practiced, but they use a jump rope and jump...

Students explore physical fitness by incorporating a class game into their sport activities. In this physical education lesson, students draw cards in a similar style to the game Candyland, except these cards instruct the students to...

Learners learn to jump rope with the purpose of learning how to become physically active. The benefit of the lesson is that children battle the negative effects of being sedentary for any extended period of time.

Third graders, in groups, classify different activities as aerobic or anaerobic. They create posters displaying their categorizations and then take notes on each other's posters.

Students complete the questions to detail their favorite after school activities. In this after school activity lesson, students fill in the blanks using the word bank to detail information about their favorite after school activities....

Learners develop cooperation skills and to teach rules and how to follow them. Students create voyage card. They discuss and decide on some situations that may have or did occur to the crew during Columbus voyage to the new world. ...

Put the tips and tricks in this guide into practice in order to encourage your pupils to blossom into poets. A wonderful reference material for teachers, this packet includes definitions of poetic terms and forms as well as step-by-step...

Students perform various physical activities that increase upper body strength. In groups, students participate in a tug-of-war, a scooter obstacle race, jump rope tricks and wall push-ups. Students participate in a Crab Beach Volley game.

Learners practice previously learned skills to the theme of "Dr. Seuss books".

Learners 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...

Students, in grade levels, perform a program of events that they have participated in throughout the year. Each grade level has their own night and extra nights are arranged for family nights. They then are asked to teach their parents...

Fifth graders examine and practice the proper techniques for dribbling a soccer ball around four cones. They show both speed proficiency and ball control. They complete a warm up activity before becoming active in the soccer activities....

Young scholars run through an obstacle course to practice jumping, vaulting, pull-ups, and other physical endeavors. The obstacles are set up in a gymnasium, and students rotate through each task.

Learners move safely in a general direction while practicing their chasing, fleeing, and dodging skills. They practice using a Thanksgiving theme for the activity.

Students investigate primary and secondary waves and how to measure the magnitude of waves. They discover how to find the epicenter of earthquakes. They examine why waves are more destructive in some areas than others through these...

Students practice the locomotor movements of skipping, galloping, hopping, jumping, etc. They gain practice in moving safely through general space.