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National Association for Sport & Physical Fitness

Indoor Physical Activity Ideas for Kids!

For Teachers K - 8th
Rainy day schedule doesn't mean you can't stay fit! Use a collection of indoor physical activities during periods of inclement weather, substitute teaching days, or for those afternoons when your class just wants to move around!
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Skipping

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate skipping and sliding. In this movement lesson, students practice skipping and sliding while holding colored chalk marking the wall mixing the colors to make different colors.
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Wipe-Out Silent Jump Rope Workout

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners listen to the song "Wipe-Out". Individually, they jump with their invisible jump rope while the drums play and use different movements when the guitar plays. To end the lesson, they practice all of the locomotor skills they have...
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Prefix/Suffix Challenge

For Teachers 3rd
Give your class practice recognizing prefixes and suffixes. They combine jumping rope with the practice of recognizing words with prefixes and suffixes. The lesson aids both the heart and the brain, but make sure your class is full of...
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Kenan Fellows

Analyzing Speed from Different Modalities

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Show us your moves. Using sensor equipment, scholars track the motion of different movements, such as jogging, skipping, or jump roping. They analyze velocity and acceleration and create graphs representing each movement.
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Frog Pond

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice the locomotor movements of skipping, galloping, hopping, jumping, etc. They gain practice in moving safely through general space.
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Grammar Quest

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in an activity that helps them to explain parts of speech and distinguish between them. They also use different locomotor skills in a variety of ways.
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Preschool Activity Centers

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students brainstorm uses for common objects. Preschool students handle everyday items and identify their uses. Student teachers plan the activity and demonstrate it for the class.
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Exercise Stations

For Teachers K - 2nd
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, and target...
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Long Rope Skipping

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students demonstrate various long jump rope skipping skills. They individually warm-up with a short rope, and in groups of six demonstrate triangle skipping and jumping using two long ropes that are perpendicular to each other.
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Walk the State Line

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice balancing activities while learning the states in the USA.
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Skipping - 360 degrees - Advanced Twister

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students learn to jump rope with the purpose of learning how to become physically active. The benefit of the lesson is that children battle the negative effects of being sedentary for any extended period of time.
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Skipping- Introductory Lesson

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students particpate in an introductory lesson to skipping. They move in and out of spaces, whenever they come to a line on the floor they must jump over it. They repeat the actions just practiced, but they use a jump rope and jump over...
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Have an Active Day! Exercise and Health Activity

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this health and exercise worksheet, learners put a star next to activities on a list that they already do, then put a check next to those activities they would like to try.
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Candyland Fitness

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore physical fitness by incorporating a class game into their sport activities. In this physical education instructional activity, students draw cards in a similar style to the game Candyland, except these cards instruct the...
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Red Ribbon Week Stations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in different physical skills that celebrate Red Ribbon Week. In this Red Ribbon Week instructional activity, students are divided into groups and participate in various learning stations which include jump rope,...
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Circuit Training Surprise

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students move around the gym to music, and when the music stops, they sit on a balloon. Inside each balloon are directions for another physical activity students should do.
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Body Image

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students discuss what the media portrays as the perfect physically active image. They discuss how this affects them. Students watch a video on body image. They look through a magazine to find one misleading advertisement and explain why...
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Math: Collecting and Analyzing Date

For Teachers K - 7th
Children count how many of an activity they can do in a row, such as ball tossing and record the date and count. Children track over a period of time and graph results.
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Perimeter Play

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify that the perimeter of a shape is the sum of its sides. Students cut some string or rope to make the sides of a rectangle. Students write the measurement of the length of the rectangle and the measurement of the...
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Wild BC

Carbon - The Short and the Long

For Teachers 1st - 6th
For this complex game about the carbon cycle, the playing field is divided into air, living, and earth zones. Children are assigned to be either plants or animals, and collect carbon tokens as they proceed from zone to zone. While the...
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Stone Passing Game with Calabash Song

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discuss games and their use around the world in many different cultures and how music and games are related. They discuss the rules of West African game then play a game from West Africa and review and learn the "Calabash" song...
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Scattered Square Dance

For Teachers K - 5th
Take a good, square look at this introductory square dancing lesson. Each square dance move has what is termed a "call." Teach some beginning calls to your young dancers. They can be scattered around so that their focus is on learning...
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Primary PE Lesson

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students work on balance, strategy, and movement while playing a beanbag game. They review high fat and low fat foods and classify these foods while they play a game of "Low Fat Locomotion."