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The Lewis and Clark Expedition

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars explore the challenges of the Lewis and Clark Expedition through a physical education simulation. In this cross-curriculum physical education lesson, students work in groups of three to log 8000 steps, stopping to...
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Balance and Rhythmic Movement Skills

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students balance and move rhythmically. In this music lesson students use a balance beam moving in different ways and participate in a rhythmic activity moving to music. The students use ribbons moving to the music.
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Rock and Roll Play

For Teachers All
Students practice using their motor skills with music. They are divided into two teams and rock and roll depending on the music. They may practice other motor skills in this lesson as well.
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How Do Airplanes Fly?

For Teachers K
Students study the concepts of air pressure, air speed, and gravity as it relates to airplanes.  In this how do airplanes fly lesson plan, students study the basics of flight. Then reinforce their fine motor skills by creating...
Worksheet
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Hummingbird Maze

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this motor skills worksheet, students solve a maze that helps a hummingbird find some flowers. Students may color the pictures of the hummingbird and the flowers when they finish.
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Summer Health Activity: Visiting the Doctor

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students play with dolls to act out feelings about a common experience. In this early childhood lesson plan, students use social, language, and fine motor skills while developing an understanding of their own bodies and the role of an...
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Perkins School for the Blind

Beach Ball with Bell

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Encourage your learners who are blind or visually impaired to participate in sports or recreational activities. This super simple idea uses a beach ball with a bell on it to help kids become comfortable with playing catch. The activity...
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Ohio Resource Center

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...
Assessment
PreKinders

Pre-K Assessment Forms

For Teachers Pre-K - K
This is a Pre-K teacher's must-have resource for pre-assessing learners at the beginning of the school year! Covering everything from alphabet recognition and sorting objects to social-emotional development and work habits, this...
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Special Olympics

Walking & Running

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Here's a fun collection of activities for helping youngsters develop body awareness, walking and running skills, spatial awareness, fine motor skills, and adaptive physical education skills such as following directions.
Lesson Plan
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Add It Up Alligators

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students strengthen shape and pattern recognition, fine-motor and perceptual skills, encouraging imagination, play and sense of self within a group
Printables
Lakeshore Learning

Gingerbread Man Template

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Print this Gingerbread Man template to use with your class. From cutting skills to stick puppetry to culinary creations, there are endless possibilities.
Lesson Plan
Nemours KidsHealth

Fitness: Grades 3-5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Little athletes put their minds and bodies to work to invent new fitness games for class! Using information they gather from informational texts, youngsters design games that include motor skills, materials, rules, and...
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Little Bit Studio

Bugs and Buttons 2

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Playing with bugs and buttons has never been so much fun! Offering a variety of different activities, this is a great resource for developing basic skills in preschool and kindergarten-aged children.
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Shapes and Review of Locomotor Skills

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars 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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Assessing Motor And Physical Fitness Activities

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students assess and challenge themselves in a wide variety of fitness and motor skill areas throughout the school year.
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The Five Senses Kids Activities and Crafts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars make binoculars to reinforce fine motor skills. In this fine motor skills lesson plan, students use colorful materials such as toilet paper rolls, craft paper, crayons, glue, scissors and yarn to make binoculars. By doing...
Worksheet
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Fly the Young Birds Back to Their Mother

For Students Pre-K - K
In this early childhood prewriting skills worksheet, students use fine motor skills to trace the dotted lines in order to join baby birds with the mother bird.
Lesson Plan
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Making Santas

For Teachers K
Students construct Santas. In this holiday lesson plan, students demonstrate how to cut with scissors and glue with glue sticks to create their own Santas from paper and felt. Students work on developing their fine motor skills.
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Pass it Around

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students participate in body awareness activities by lying in a large circle and passing a ball. In this body awareness instructional activity, students lie in a large circle and pass a ball in multiple fashions to improve their motor...
Lesson Plan
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Fishy Yarn Printing

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use crayons and yarn to create an underwater scene while building fine motor skills.
Worksheet
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Horse Coloring Sheet

For Students Pre-K - 3rd
In this horse coloring worksheet, students use their fine motor skills to color the picture of a single horse. The worksheet may be used in a variety of classroom activities.
Worksheet
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Frog Coloring Sheet

For Students Pre-K - 3rd
In this frog coloring learning exercise, students use their fine motor skills to color the picture of a single frog. The learning exercise may be used in a variety of classroom activities.
Worksheet
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Zig-Zag Tracing

For Students Pre-K
In this tracing worksheet, students trace the zig-zag pattern to thunder and a kangaroo's path. The objective is to enhance students' fine motor skills.

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