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Play For Pay
Students practice various skills with manipulatives, such as counting correct money amounts to pay for manipulatives.
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Spell Craze
Students practice dribbling as the class spells words from a chart or board.
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Learning Students Names
Students design a name tag to post on a wall chart. Teacher uses the name tags to learn student names.
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Partner Mile Run: Heart Rate Calculation
Students improve fitness, calculate target heart rates and prepare for the mile run physical fitness test.
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Aerobic Frisbee Golf
Students work cooperatively to accurately throw a Frisbee in order to learn about fitness components and different systems of the human body.
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Whistle While You Work
Pupils are broken into groups and depending on the cycle if the color of their group shows on that day, that group is to help with the set up and take down of equipment.
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Whistle While You Work
Young scholars participate in methods to become organized and involved in clean-up and set-up of equipment at the beginning and end of each class. After being grouped in teams of colors, students observe their group's duties for the...
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The Joy of Community Field Day
Pupils engage in community related activities to recognize and thank local merchants. Merchants raise awareness regarding what resources are available in the local and neighboring area for students and their families.
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Equipment Fun/Forming Groups
Students practice creative and safe play using P.E. equipment by themselves and with a partner.
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Vowel Catcher
Learners reinforce their knowledge of different vowel sounds while playing a form of tag.
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States of Fitness
Young scholars participate in physical activities coordinating to divisions on a map.
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Turkey exercises
Students draw a colored feather out of a turkey made from a bag and colorful paper feathers. Each color feather corresponds to a different exercise that students must perform.
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White Elephant Exercise Exchange
Students get moving in a fun holiday setting. They participate in a holiday tradition of exchanging gifts with the gift being an exercise to be completed. Exercises are written on small slips of paper and put into a small holiday gift bag.
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Building a Food Pyramid
Students review the concept of the food pyramid that has been taught by the classroom teacher. They have a classroom discussion of the food pyramid; understanding the importance of a healthy diet. Students create an original food pyramid.
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Columbus' Voyage to the New World
Students 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. ...
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Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving
Students listen to the book, Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving. They rotate through five motor skills stations, with each station simulating an event from the book.
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Pendulum Motion Experiments
Students experiment with simple pendulums to determine the validity of an equation for all angles. Students discover the usefulnes and limitations of approximations in science. Using spreadhseets and a java applet, students observe the...
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Signers Search
Students take part in an activity that allows them to learn the names and some interesting facts about the signers of the Declaration of Independence while having fun and participating in physical activity.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Jumping Numbers
Practice jumping and landing with both of their feet in this gym-class activity, which requires young scholars to solve simple math problems. Materials required include: hoops, cards, dice, jump ropes, cones, music, and worksheets.
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Pbs Mathline: Magic Box Lesson Plan [Pdf]
As a teacher jumps rope, learners determine the arithmetic pattern. Printable lesson.
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Pe Central: Physical Education Lesson Plans: Pe Central
An outstanding site for PE lesson plan ideas, Classroom Management ideas, health lesson ideas as well as ideas for field day activities. The lessons are broken down by grade levels. Ideas to teach a comprehensive physical education program.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Fitness Race Track
In the gym, set up a "fitness race track" where students can both run and participate in a variety of exercises like push-ups, crunches, and jump roping. A great warm-up activity to precede a sport or physically-demanding lesson.