When this worksheet is completed, your players will know the basics of basketball. Items covered: court diagram, team/scoring, violations, fouls, terms used in basketball, the cues for the skills of shooting, dribbling, and defensive...

Introduce young learners to line dancing. Here are some simple movement patterns to teach them. First teach, repeat, and repeat again without music. Then when they have a pretty good grasp of the movement patterns, add music and practice...

Children can do almost anything to music, so get them up and moving, working out and strengthening some major muscle groups. Using exercise bands provides some resistance, which makes the muscles work a little harder. With this lesson...

Students listen to a story and then use the words from the book to generate dance movements.

Slide right, slide left, knee, step, run, run, rolling, pivot, turn, shake those shoulders! These moves make up the 32-count dance to the tune of "Proud Mary" as performed by the cast from the TV show "Glee". Use the video to learn the...

Students explore communication by using non-verbal cues. In this body language lesson, students utilize blindfolds to communicate with classmates through words only, then use only physical actions to communicate and compare the two....

Skater's Glide, Reindeer Stomps, Skiers, and Snow Shoe Marches are the four types of dance steps in this activity. Find the Crazy Frog version of "Jingle Bells" and teach these dance moves. There is a video included so take a look at it...

Students perform dribbling activities using a basketball. In this dribbling activity, students dribble a basketball according to the poly spot number that they land on. This activity uses kinesthetics to gain knowledge of counting.

Your young poets will jump at the chance to demonstrate their understanding of stanzas. Cue up “Seven Jumps,” a track on Michael Herman’s CD, International Folk Dances. Class members move to the music of each stanza and freeze when a...

Students participate in static and dynamic activities to develop muscle strength and balance. Free weights are used to work on shoulder, bicep, and tricep muscles. Locomotor skills of hopping, jumping, leaping, skipping, and galloping...

Middle schoolers create an artistic promotional poster to assess retained knowledge of volleyball terms used during volleyball unit.

Students practice using paddles to hit objects. In this striking skills lesson, students use wooden paddles to round up balloon farm animals without touching the balloons with their hands.

Students practice dribbling and passing fundamentals using the appropriate cues.

Students learn the proper cues of rolling or bowling a ball and at the same time reinforcing cooperation and spelling skills.

Contra dance was brought to America by French Soldiers after the Revolutionary War. Contra dancing is done in lines, but with partners facing each other. Some moves one partner is moving forward while the other moves backwards. Some...

Get youngsters moving by teaching them some basic dance moves. This dance can be done in a circle, a line, or scattered around the gym. There are four movement combinations that are taught to the song "Purple People Eater" by Sheb...

Students practice aiming with the underhand hit in striking with short-handled implements to introduce them to a underhand hit in volleyball. They encounter the manipulatives of tape, hula hoops and a variety of balls to assist them with...

Students practice passing and kicking a soccer ball. In this passing skills lesson, students are split into two teams and practice making passes to their teammates. There are different variations included in this lesson, such as adding...

Students practice hand-eye coordination skills by identifying proper throwing technique, and by passing, throwing, and bouncing ball to partner from distance of six feet, both while stationary and in motion.

Students practice foot dribbling and hand dribbling with control. In addition it helps to reinforce math concepts.

Students practice the locomotor movements of skipping, galloping, hopping, jumping, etc. They gain practice in moving safely through general space.

Students practice moving at slow and fast speeds. They are given a red, yellow and green ball, each representing its corresponding traffic light. When tagged, that student must then move at the speed associated with the color ball that...

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. 

Young scholars practice two-foot take-offs for jumping and a one foot for a hopping. They practice locomotor skill to music.