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Vinegar Experiment

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders mix vinegar with different substances and explore the reaction. They record data from the experiment. Students examine chemical change, reaction, physical change and physical reaction.
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Living Letters

For Teachers 1st
First graders physically form the letters of the alphabet in small groups. They move around demonstrating various locomotive skills, and form the letter that the teacher calls out.
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Picture-Perfect Language Arts

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students develop their reading and writing skills in this year long activity. They discuss the physical traits that they have in common and those physical traits that make them unique. Students draw a portrait of their partners and write...
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Radioactive Beans

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate radioactive atoms. In this radioactive beans instructional activity, students experiment with split peas and beans to determine what happens when a radioactive atom decays. 
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Testing for Vitamin C in different drinks and foods

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students develop an awareness of the use of Vitamin C in helping our environment and gain exposure to chemical procedures and techniques. Students analyze and interpret data by keeping a data sheet and making a bar graph.
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Jumping Multiples

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice their multiplication facts by using jump ropes and incorporating math into physical education. They use their jump ropes to jump the product of the multiples that the teacher calls out.
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How to Beat the Rainy Day Blues

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
With a little ingenuity, lively exercise can occur despite the weather.
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Winter Wonderland Stations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use hockey sticks to strike pucks into a goal, between two cones, or into another target (e.g., bowling pins). They use white rolled up socks as snowballs to throw at a variety of targets that are on the floor or on the wall .
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Switch and Rotate

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars participate in a game whose object is to stay so close to a partner that when the teacher says "Stop," the players freeze. The follower should touch the leader.
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The Barn Dance

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students dance a simple "mixer" that can be done to a variety of types of music, from country to rock.
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Flying Disc Horseshoes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers practice accuracy throwing at targets. This instructional activity is intended to prepare students for Flying Disc golf.
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Gingerbread Man

For Teachers K - 1st
Students visit new places in the school and meet new people as they look for the Gingerbread Boy. They use different locomotor movements to get to different locations.
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Sliding Games (Marbles)

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners play a game of marbles outdoors on an iced area. They begin by playing a warm-up game of tag and proceed to sliding their marbles on an iced surface into holes. They attempt to gain points by sliding the marble into holes of...
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Daytona 500

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils use pedometers to help track distance goals while participating in a team scooter race modeled after the Daytona 500.
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Scootermania

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how to work cooperatively with a partner.
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Mine Field

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experience the loss of their sight and develop feelings for those less fortunate than them.
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Mulberry Hide and Seek

For Teachers K
Pupils practice body and space awareness. Listening skills are also reinforced.
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Animal Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students play a chasing, fleeing game after choosing an animal to role play.
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Off to College

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students jog to where their classroom teacher went to college using a scale that best fits their situation. They log miles on a chart until students reach their destination. Students use the colleges mascot as the graph indicator as to...
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Pirate PE Field Day

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students participate in movement activities while completing "pirate" stations. They rotate through the activities every 6-7 minutes. They complete activities such as "Walk the Plank, Gone Fishin', Cannon Blast, and Swab the Deck."
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High Five Dance Warm Up

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners stand in a circle in sequential order. They grapevine to the middle of the circle when they hear their number. When in the middle of the circle, students high five someone and then grapevine out of the circle. Numbers may be...
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Swamp Thing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers create a build-it-yourself boat that runs on two small electric motors. Swamp Thing has an electronic brain that can be controlled and steered with a flashlight.
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Gotta-Have Gear Scramble

For Students 6th - 8th
In this activity worksheet, students unscramble words of items hikers should always pack for a hiking trip. After unscrambling the words, students draw a line matching each word to its definition. Students also calculate how much food...
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Chemical Changes and Biscuits

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate chemical changes in everyday life settings, such as cooking. They investigate leavening which is one of the classic chemical changes that people experience. Pupils observe leavening in biscuits with the...