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Scrabble Endurance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners 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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North Pole Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners 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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Parachute

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in an instant activity as they enter the gym. They work with a parachute, moving it using different motions. They use their wrists, to move the parachute while moving in a circle, and play a game of Cat and Mouse...
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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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Bean Bag Clean-up

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students 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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Skipping Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in a tagging game that involves skipping as the locomotor skill. With one person playing "it," students must skip around the tag area trying to get away from the tagger, and with the tagged students trying to deter...
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Happy New Year

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners play a game sing poly spots, balloons, beach balls, volleyball trainers, foam balls, and music that requires them to develop locomotor movement skills.
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HULA HOOP MATH

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students move about the area doing the locomotor action the teacher directs them to do. When the music stops I hold up a card with the problem for all to see. They come up with an answer they form into a group in a hoop with the number...
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Fitness 500

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play a game with a hula hoop, jump rope, and scooter that requires them to develop locomotor movements skills.
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Water Polo

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders warm-up and practice passing drills in groups of four or five before being divided into teams for a full court game of Water Polo. Students are observed during practice for how well they work as a team.
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Hanukkah Game

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners participate in a game involving their motor skills. With a partner, they are given a menorah and bean bags and they decide who carries the candles. After discussing the history of Hanukkah, they practice their locomotive skills.
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Spanish Mat Game

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students demonstrate their knowledge of Spanish numbers while using various locomotor movements in a physical education game.
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Sugar and Fat Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a game of chase and learn about healthy food choices. In this physical activity and healthy diet lesson, students play a game of chase by role playing as sugar and fat examples Students name examples of fruits and...
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Noodle Knockdown

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students perform a proper overhand throw. In this physical education activity, students practice overhand throwing using specific sequential cues such as "statue" and "muscleman". Each step is explained in detail. Students play a team...
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I See

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students play a form of the game "I Spy" with their teacher in their physical education class. They respond with a locomotor skill to a teacher command.
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Scrambled Eggs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students spread out in their own personal space within a play area. They respond to different kinds of commands to play the game related to different ways of cooking eggs. This looks like lots of fun.
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Pac Man Chomps Again

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students are given the opportunity to pracitce math while participating in a tag game. They get to (i.e. identify greater and lesser numbers) and solve small problems concerning mathematical comparisons .
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Food Groups Tag Games

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students begin with a discussion on healthy eating and the four food groups as well as analyzing their typical lunch to see if it includes all food groups. Students then play a modified version of tag, yelling out a food from a specific...
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State Partners

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice locating the 50 states on the US map, and move as a "team" throughout the general space.
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Couch Potato

For Teachers K - 5th
Show your class that being active is more fun than being a couch potato! A fun tag game teachers learners about making healthy eating choices. Over 125,000 teachers have reviewed this activity, and many have written comments about how...
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Frosty Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students demonstrate locomotor skills in a game of tag.
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Food Group Fitness Relay

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners, put in teams, line up behind one of numbered cones. Player #1 in each group does designated locomotor skill, hop, skip, gallop, slide, etc., to center circle and selects a food card, then brings card back and places it under...
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Hospital Tag

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students participate in a game of tag in which they must perform a variety of activities to be unfrozen after being tagged. They use a variety of locomotor skills while moving around the play area.
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Fire Chief

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students respond to motion cues from the "Fire Chief" (teacher). For this physical education lesson, students participate in a fire safety game which promotes locomotor skills.

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