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Oh That Gross Digestive System!
Learners get an understanding of the main components of the digestive system and how the system takes the food we eat and converts it into energy.
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Vegetable Munchers
Students are encouraged to eat healthy foods. Theyare able to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy foods.Students travel in different pathways, and levels,while learning to make healthy food choices.
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The Battle of Gettysburg
Eighth graders participate in a basketball game that involves taking on the roles of Union and Confederate armies. In two teams, each wearing either gray or blue fabric strips, they attempt to capture their opponents and free their own...
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Haunted House Challenge Fitness Stations
Students rotate through ten physical fitness stations. They perform various stretching and strengthening activities for three minutes at a time.
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15 Relays for Field Days
Students, in teams, participate in a variety of fun themed relay races.
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Math Circuit
Young scholars develop fitness levels and reinforce specific sports skills while integrating basic math.
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Body Math
Students solve simple math computations while practice their throwing skills. They explore how to subtract, add,divide,and multiply, while playing a fun fitness oriented game.
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"UNO" Fitness
Students increase cardiovascular fitness and muscular strength. "UNO" cards are used. Each card is matched up with an exercise.
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20 Field Day Activities Any Kid Can Do (And Do Well!)
Students participate in activities in which they practice their physical skills. They work together on some of the activities to practice mental skills as well. They show their team spirit as the winners are announced.
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EGG-Cercise Relays: Spring Fun Day
Students take part in a fun holiday circuit training activity that promotes good sportsmanship and encourages students to challenge themselves using a variety of throwing and catching tasks.
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Easter Egg Hunt
Learners increase cardiovascular endurance and develop the components of health related fitness.
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A Spin On Fitness
Students perform a variety of exercises pertaining to each component of fitness while working in a cooperative situation.
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Hoop Tag
Students play a modified game of tag. Given specific roles of "it" and "free-er," they try to remain outside of the hula hoops that have been placed on the gym floor. Students work cooperatively with the free-er to remain in the game.
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Track Meet
In this reasoning instructional activity, 3rd graders look over a table with statistics and solve the answers to 5 word problems related to the table about a class track meet.
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Forming Groups
Students create groups (teams) the way a teacher hopes they -- various different ideas are presented.
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Number Tick Tack Toe
Students practice basic addition and subtraction facts to twelve. They use high level thinking skills to win at the game of tick tack toe. Students review the rules to the game. They use strategy skills to master the game.
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Learning About Our World
Students explore their world using the book "This is the Way We Go to School." They predict information about the story based on the title and pictures. Students label a world map with the names of continents and oceans. They write a set...
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Dance Team/ Collaborative Fitness Routines
Students experience the process of creating a "dance team" type routine by following a set procedure.
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Fitness Pursuit
Students participate in health-enhancing physical game of Trivial Pursuit and identify the benefits and effects of health related fitness.
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Candy Bar Fractions
Students explore the relationship between caloric expenditure and exercise, and see a real world use for fractions as they relate to daily life.
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Fitness Trail
Learners design a fitness trail which incorporates warm-up, aerobic, and cool-down phases. Each student develops their own plan and monitors their own progress through the use of an exercise log.
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Aerobic Frisbee Golf
Students work cooperatively as a team and accurately throw a Frisbee. In addition, students explore fitness components and different systems of the human body.
