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Bean Bag Scavenger Hunt
Students look for hidden bean bags on the playground. Once all bags are found, students may hide them from each other. Each student should have the opportunity to hide and find the bean bags. While students are hunting, the teacher...
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Team Sports Activity
Students discover team work by participating in sports activities with classmates. In this physical education lesson, students compete in different activities in small groups. Students discuss ways to increase their level of...
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Tae-Bo
Seventh graders explore physical fitness by performing Tae Bo. In this physical education lesson plan, 7th graders practice using mixed martial arts techniques by completing a Tae Bo fitness exercise in class. Students...
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Rhythmic Dancing
Fourth graders practice expressing themselves through the art of dance. In this physical education activity, 4th graders discuss choreography and how moving specific ways at certain times can be artistic. Students create and...
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Running/Wiffle Ball
Pupils explain the basic rules for wiffle ball. In this physical education lesson, students record the steps they took during their 4 mile run. Additionally, pupils participate in a game of wiffle ball.
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Fire Chief
Learners 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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Automated Vehicle Programming Design
Young scholars design a program to make an automated vehicle perform a specific task. In this robotics lesson, students play the role of scientists competing to win a factory's contract. They present their algorithm to class.
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Team Handball
Students enter the gym and immediately stretch and perform warm up activities. They work in teams to play a game of handball. They practice to increase their competency in shooting the handball into the goal. Finally, they participate in...
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"Know How" to Line Up
Students identify and define several movements physically acted out. They participate in a freeze activity in which they line up performing different movements. For example, they line up (1) if they are doing a strength exercise, (2)...
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All-Star Award
Students compete for points by wearing the appropriate shoes on their P. E. days. Each class moves bases on a baseball field as they earn points.
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Robot Labyrinth
Students design a flowchart for their robotic program. In this physics lesson plan, students construct a robot that can navigate certain obstacles. They present their program and robots in class.
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Sensor Challenge
Young scholars develop a pseudo code flowchart for their robotic program. In this physics lesson, students construct a robot that can navigate through certain obstacles. They test their robot and present them to class.
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Hot Cans and Cold Cans
Students investigate the physics of heating and cooling through conduction, convection, and radiation. Working in groups, they determine the best way to cool a can of water and warm a can of water. Temperature is taken at five minute...
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Chalkboard Relay-PE Lesson
In the lesson, Chalkboard Relay-PE Lesson, students benefit from physical and mental activities. Students will compete in teams using running and addition problems as the determinant factors of which team wins. Moreover, students will...
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Problem Solving
Students participate in completing various locomotor skills. In this physical education/literacy lesson, students explore the gym searching for Halloween items to return back to their "home". Additionally, students must be engaged in the...
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Exercise Stations
Students participate in station activities in P.E. In this physical education lesson, students do station activities. Students start out with a warm up exercise then make their way to dance, bowling, scooters, jump rope,...
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Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan
Third graders study Thanksgiving. For this physical education and spelling lesson, 3rd graders play a race game by being the first group who can spell the word Thanksgiving first.
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Special Protections-Session Six
Parents and children work together in a community circle to discuss caring for people with special needs. In separate groups, the children sing and listen to a story. They discuss ways people are alike, and ways they are different....
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Subject-Verb Agreement exercise 5
In this recognizing present tense verbs worksheet, students choose the correct present tense verb form to agree with the subject and compete sentences. Students choose twenty-five multiple choice answers.
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Cosmetic Products Evaluation
Students evaluate different cosmetic products. In this chemistry lesson, students determine the physical and chemical components of their samples. They perform various test such as pH, viscosity, conductivity and formulate a conclusion...
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Reconstructing a Fossil Pterosaur
Young scholars reconstruct the skeleton of the fossil Scaphognathus crassirostis. In this fossil lesson plan, students discuss the Kingdoms of life, geologic history and the history of the skeletons of species. Young scholars are given...
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Beanbag Toss
Students explore physical education by participating in a class game. In this bean bag toss lesson, students utilize masking tape to create targets which they launch bean bags into from far away. Students collaborate in groups to compete...
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In the Olympics, are Women Improving Faster than Men?
Will the time come when women outperform men at the Olympic Games?Scholars investigate gender differences in Olympic Games performances. They study the historical participation of women and then analyze data to determine if women will...
Shodor Education Foundation
InteGreat
Hands-on investigation of Riemann sums becomes possible without intensive arithmetic gymnastics with this interactive lesson plan. Learners manipulate online graphing tools to develop and test theories about right, left, and...