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Bounce to Spell
Students are in their own personal space with a playground ball and a partner. They are given a spelling word from their classroom or shoolwide list. They bounce the ball to their partner saying a letter as they pass the ball.
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Frizbee Pop
Students practice the "pop" action of popping a wet towel to throw a frisbee.
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Parachute-Turtle Game
Students gain an understanding of why a turtle goes inside its shell. The activity also allows students to practice responding to a command.Teacher says "the turtle is in the woods and sees a bear." students say "hide in the shell," t
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Humpty Dumpty
Students practice submerging their faces and heads in the water and blow bubbles when learning to swim. They practice this to the song of Humpty Dumpty.
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Drawing Stages
Students learn the different characteristics that a developing infant goes through during the weekly periods of each trimester, by drawing pictures of the fetus during each trimester.
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Nutrition (Low Fat/High Fat Foods)
Students explain that a low fat diet, accompanied by being physically active, help them live longer and healthier lives.
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Number Jump
Learners practice addition and subtraction skills while practicing jumping rope. They must jump rope using a variety of basic rope jumping skills and add and subtract in their heads.
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State Tag
Young scholars work on knowledge of state capitols by playing a tag game using a variety of locomotor movements.
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Presidential Race
Students explain the way in which a candidate wins an electorial race and the number of votes necessary to win in the electoral college through movement.
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Geography General Space
Students work together to explore states and/or countries while designing their movement area for the day.
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Exploring Shapes
Students practice moving over shapes they have designed. They work on trying to travel around the shapes while practicing their jumping and landing patterns.
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State Your Mission
Students explore state history and geography that correspond with classroom lessons.
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Alphabet Tag
Students work on letter recognition as they play a game of tag. To get unfrozen they make a letter with their body and a free runner guesses the letter.
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Spell Tag
Students work on their spelling skills by spelling a word to get unfrozen if tagged.
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Why Recycle?
Students use Internet Research to list at least 10 ways to recycle resources at home, school and work. They divide into groups, pool their knowledge and prepare infomercials explaining their recycling strategies.
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First Aid Kits
Middle schoolers explain what items make up a First Aid Kit and what the purpose of the items is. They draw and label at least 10 items that go into a First Aid Kit. On the back cover, they list these items and explain how the item is used.
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Tendon Damage from Steroids
Students explain how using steroids can create problems for tendons in your body.
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Do You Wish You Never Started Smoking?
Students are exposed to an experience with a lifelong smoker in attempts that they realize that most smokers wish they had never started smoking. If this is the case, we can presume that starting to smoke is a bad decision.
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Artery Demonstration
Students learn what may happen when they do not eat properly or participate in physical activity regularly
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Birth Control Acronym
Students create an acronym for a method of birth control. The acronym should represent the student's understanding of the form of birth control's use.
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Roundtable Review
Learners review for a major unit test by playing a question/answer game.
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Take Five
Students transition from one activity to the other in a quiet and sequential manner. students should have a clear understanding of what the freeze/stop/halt signal means.