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State Your Mission
Young scholars explore state history and geography that correspond with classroom lessons.
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Running/Wiffle Ball
Students explain the basic rules for wiffle ball. In this physical education lesson, students record the steps they took during their 4 mile run. Additionally, students participate in a game of wiffle ball.
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Playing in China
Students create their own Chinese tangrams using in-class direction and prior knowledge in this two-day lesson plan for the early elementary classroom. Chinese toys are also explored.
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Red Ribbon Locomotor Stations (for Drug Free America Week)
Students are introduced to the Red Ribbon campaign. In groups, they travel between a stations to discover how to stay away from drugs and how to say no. To end the lesson, they practice their locomotor skills to reinforce the strategies.
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Christmas Fitness Adventure
Learners complete a fitness challenge over the holiday break. In this physical fitness lesson, students receive a worksheet to track their physical activity while they are away from school.
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Shapes and Review of Locomotor Skills
Students engage in a series of loco-motor activities based on shapes. In this loco-motor lesson, students demonstrate physical skills through races, jumping, hopping, galloping in circles, squares, rectangles and triangles.
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Obstacles On Wheels
Pupils practice roller blading in a safe environment offering varying levels of skill challenges (slanted rope).
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GET OFF THE COUCH AND GET BUSY
Students perform at five fitness stations a day for a week. Each fitness station be based on a benefit of vigorous physical activity.
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Creative Dance - Element of Space
Fourth graders perform and demonstrate locomotor and non-locomotor movements, while using various dance pathways and levels, incorporating the element of space.
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You Be the Coach
Students brainstorm their favorite sports with one another. They work together in small groups based on their interests in sports. They research the coaching of that sport by reviewing different resources. They demonstrate their sport to...
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Sports Screeners
Learners watch videos to discover the amount of physical activity in film and television. They present their findings to the class after viewing a film. They discuss how perceptions in films can influence young people.
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Olympic Challenge
Have your class research a country related to the Olympics. They participate in physical education activities included in the Presidential Physical Fitness Test and write about their country. This is a very interactive plan.
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Soccer
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....
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Mexican birthdays
Third graders examine "Compleaños Feliz" and the symbolism of the pinata associated with birthday parties.
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Strong as the Weakest Link
Students discover the types of stress that materials undergo. They examine how bridges and skyscrapers are built to withhold the tension. They create their own structure out of marshmallows and spaghetti.
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Action Verbs
Second graders perform various tasks by identifying the action word with teacher. They demonstrate each of the correct critical elements of loco motor, non-manipulative, and manipulative skills.
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A Modern Spin on Ancient Greece Using Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan's books provide a wonderful platform for the study of mythology.
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How to Beat the Rainy Day Blues
With a little ingenuity, lively exercise can occur despite the weather.
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Twelve Days of Winter Break
Learners participate in an extra credit activity designed to keep them active over winter break.
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The Hudson's Ups and Downs
Even rivers have tides. Older elementary schoolers will discuss the Hudson River and how weather, water craft, and the ocean cause tidal fluctuation. They will examine a series of line graphs that depict tidal fluctuation, then analyze...
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USA State Tag / Mississippi River Shuffle
Students reinforce the geographic location of the states of the U.S.A.
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The Naming of a Native American
Students read and discuss Native American legends. They examine how the Native American name came about.