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Balancing Act

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students demonstrate management skills specific to balance. In this physical education instructional activity students participate in activities with and without apparatus to improve balance. Students work at 8 stations to practice...
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What Happens to Our Hearts When We Are Active?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discover the benefits of a healthy heart through exercise.  In this physical education lesson, students participate in a few physical activities in order to get their hearts beating faster.  Students examine a visual...
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Survivors

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice locomotor skills. In this physical education lesson, students practice eight different skills - walk, run, leap, jump, hop, gallop, slide, and skip. They answer a social studies question and then complete the skill. 
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Team Handball

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students participate in a team handball game. In this physical education lesson, students are introduced to offensive strategies and implement them into the handball game. Students perform a stretching routine at the end of activity.
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Is Your Heart Getting a Good Workout?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars practice raising their heart rates through exercise.  In this physical education activity, students discover the key to a healthy body is a healthy heart that must be exercised often.  Young scholars perform a...
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Knock Down

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students participate in team building activity. In this physical education lesson, students are divided into two teams. One team is assigned to knock down the bowling pins and the other team is assigned the job of picking them back up....
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Weight Training

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers practice gaining strength by weightlifting.  In this physical education lesson, students discuss ways to safely build muscle by examining the parts of their body they will be using in the weight-room.  High...
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Soccer Traffic Jam

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students play a game to practice soccer skills and following directions. In this physical education lesson, students play a soccer-type game, but movements are determined by directions called out by the teacher.
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Scooter Scramble

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students engage in cooperative group challenges using a scooter. In this Physical Education scooter lesson, the students acquire the skills of working together and review scooter safety.
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Winter Olympics Stations

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students experience various Winter Olympic sports in Physical Education class. In this Winter Olympics instructional activity, students participate in stations which represent the Olympic games. These representative stations include a...
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Field of Fun Day

For Teachers K - 6th
Learners get to showcase many of the different activities taught during their year in physical education classes. They also get to perform some activities just for fun.Great end of the year activity.
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Kidding Around Down Under

For Teachers 6th - 12th
After reading an article, "From an Alternate to a 'Miracle Kid' in a Flash," youngsters discuss the kind of commitment required for a teenager to become an Olympic athlete. A variety of activities is suggested, and the popular topic...
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Following Instructions

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Use this simple plan to teach your physical education class how to make a jump shot in basketball. It includes an introduction, objectives, methods, and more!
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Global Oneness Project

Practicing Empathy

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Spread the love with a heart-warming lesson plan about Jeffrey Wright, a physics teacher who helps his class cultivate empathy by himself being an empathetic role model. After watching a video about how Jeffrey works his magic, class...
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Solar Kit Lesson #13 - Solarize a Toy

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Physical science or technology classes will be invigorated by this challenge: to convert a toy, game, or other device to run on solar power. In doing so, they will design the appropriate solar arrays. This is an A+ lesson, complete...
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Solar Kit Lesson #11 - Power Maximum: An Electrical Determination

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Collaborative groups connect resistors and solar panels in series and measure electrical resistance, voltage, and current. The objective is to order 16 solar panels from strongest to weakest. They graph current-voltage and power curves...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Feeling Faces

For Teachers K Standards
A lesson help scholars identify emotions through facial expressions. After a friendly puppet reads scholars a poem all about feelings, learners act out how they would feel when a specific action happens to them. Participants watch and...
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American Chemical Society

Joseph Priestley, Discoverer of Oxygen

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Do you want to hear a joke about nitrogen and oxygen? NO. We all know there is oxygen in the air and that plants produce oxygen, but how was it discovered? Scholars read a handout, answer questions, and analyze material in the...
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Solids, Liquids, and Gases

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Not many lessons on states of matter can hold a candle to this one! Junior chemists gauge the density of paraffin in both liquid and solid phases. They fill 60 mL syringes with different materials to experiment with compressibility and...
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Solar Kit Lesson #6: Solar-Powered Battery Charger

For Teachers 5th - 9th
In a previous lesson, learners build an ammeter. That ammeter, or a pre-made one, is required in order to carry out this lesson. The objective is for lab groups to design a way to connect solar cells that can recharge a battery. Basic...
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Solar Kit Lesson #1 - Solar Cell Inquiry

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Give youngsters the components of a solar-powered electric circuit and turn them loose to figure out how to connect them in order for a light to shine or motor to turn. They compare energy output of a solar panel to that of a battery. On...
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The Riverboat

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Get a boat across the river! Work on problem-solving with tumbling mats to represent the boat, and try to get a crew across the grass without any of the members touching the ground. This will take team work, cooperation, and...
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Squeeze Play

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scientists demonstrate how to move objects. In this fine motor lesson, students use various objects such as dice, erasers, and soft balls and move them using the proper device.
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Match and Lighter Safety

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Go over the basics of fire prevention with a lesson focused on safety with matches and lighters. With a series of dilemma cards that describe potential fire risks, learners choose the most responsible way to handle matches and...