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Hula Hoop Math

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners move about the area doing the teacher-directed locomotor action. When the music stops the teacher holds up a card with a problem. As soon as they come up with an answer they form into a group in a hoop with the number of...
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Four Corners Locomotion

For Teachers K - 5th
A simple P.E. activity will get young athletes running, jumping, hopping, skipping, and crabwalking! These locomotor movement exercises are a great way to build up aerobic endurance. Your learners will ask you to play this game again and...
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Clouds

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Get your little readers moving with a fun lesson about Eric Carle's Little Cloud. After reading the book together, they engage in a series of locomotor and manipulative activities to illustrate how different elements of the story would...
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Locomotor License

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a simulation to practice motor skills and moving safely in the space they share with others.
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Locomotor Change Tag

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students are in scattered formation within the playing area. The identified chasers each have a foam ball. On the signal they chase using a locomotor movement. When tagged a students changes movement.
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Locomotor / Pathway Card Swap

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students follow instructions on index card with a locomotor skill and pathway written on it, then students follow the cones which mark the boundaries. When music stops switch index cards with another student and go agian.
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Hawaiʻi State Department of Education

What’s My Vocabulary Word?

For Teachers 3rd
The elements of dance can be used to communicate thoughts and, in this case, words. In small groups, the class first creates a set of movements to show a single word. Then, they extend their movements to show a three-word phrase....
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Celebrating Halloween With the Purple People Eaters

For Teachers K - 4th
Get youngsters moving by teaching them some basic dance moves. This dance can be done in a circle, a line, or scattered around the gym. There are four movement combinations that are taught to the song "Purple People Eater" by Sheb...
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Making Dances From Stories

For Teachers 4th
After reading a short story, learners will create dances that show homophones and verbs. Their dance sequences involve three verbs and transition movements in between each verb. Tip: Have the class dance out the sequence of events from...
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Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan- Math

For Teachers K - 1st
Students perform locomotor movement.  In this locomotor skills activity, students practice running, hopping, skipping, and walking then form themselves into groups based on a number called out.  Students identify if more or less students...
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Scrabble Endurance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice movement skills while working on their spelling. They review spelling words and practice the locomotor and non-locomotor skills involved.
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Witches Brew

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students reinforce AB patterns taught in the classroom and practice locomotor movements. They cut out and laminate 20 of each of the following Halloween items: bats, ghosts, Frankenstein faces, spiders, Jack-O¿¿¿-Lanterns, witches...
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Fire Chief

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice locomotor movements while pretending to be "firemen" at "fire stations". In this movement instructional activity, students stand in hoola hoops representing their fire station. They practice 8 different locomotor...
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Survivors

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice locomotor skills. In this physical education instructional activity, students practice eight different skills - walk, run, leap, jump, hop, gallop, slide, and skip. They answer a social studies question and then...
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Special Delivery

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars are given an envelope with the name of a locomotor skill. As a class, they practice reading the name of the skill and practice doing the movement. To end the lesson, they complete the movement only when the music is playing.
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Frog Pond

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice the locomotor movements of skipping, galloping, hopping, jumping, etc. They gain practice in moving safely through general space.
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Grammar Quest

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in an activity that helps them to explain parts of speech and distinguish between them. They also use different locomotor skills in a variety of ways.
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Bean Bag Shuffle

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners practice their locomotor skills. They are introduced to locomotor skills (skipping, galloping, etc). Students start with a bean bag in their hand. They begin on the teacher's signal to begin their locomotor skill, moving in...
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Bean Bag Clean-up

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners perform activities to practice locomotor skills. When music begins, students pick up a bean bag and bring it to the corner corresponding to the color of the bean bag. They perform a specified locomotor skill.
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North Pole Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students review the proper way to chase, flee and dodge others in a game of tag. As a class, they pretend they are on the North Pole acting as grinches, reindeer and elves. They play the game practicing different locomotor skills.
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Memory Easter Egg Hunt

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice locomotor skills, space awareness and cooperation. They are encouraged to cheer on their teammates, showing social responsibility. Students are assign an Easter basket that a specific color egg to retrieve. They...
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Rhythmic Ribbons

For Teachers K
Students practice various locomotor skills and to provide students with the opportunity to experiment with movement to music.
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"It's the Great Pumpkin" Game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students demonstrate the ability to perform a variety of locomotor movements and body shapes. The student book "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" is used with this lesson.
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Hoop Jump/Hop

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students integrate locomotor skills and math skills.

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