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Pe Central: Mini Golf
Introduce students to golf-putting through a fun game of miniature golf. Build a nine or eighteen-hole golf course in the gym using gymnastic mats, carpet squares, and drinking cups. Then have students, in groups, play the entire course...
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Pe Central: Team Target Golf Chip
Practice chipping golf balls and aiming at a target. Students able to chip a golf ball are ready to hone their accuracy. Teachers set up hula hoops 10 yards away from students and have students, in teams, attempt to chip the ball into a...
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Aerobic Frisbee Golf
The physical activity described at this website combines cardiovascular fitness exercises (frisbee, push-ups, jumping jacks) and academic subjects math and science.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Grocery Bag Fun
Students practice tossing and catching a simple, inexpensive object--a plastic garbage bag, ideal for young children learning to catch.
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Pe Central: Balloon Toss
Introduce young children to tossing and catching using a series of activities involving punch-ball balloons (durable balloons that move slowly in the air). Included are ideas for assessing students' activity and for adapting the lesson...
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Rollerblade Scarf Tag
At this website, read about this variation of "tag" that will help pupils improve their skating skills while they are getting an aerobic workout. Includes ideas for keeping the activity safe.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Who Let the Frogs Out?
This activity requires students to practice throwing, catching, and jumping as they "Leap," intro spring. At different stations throughout the gym, students participate in various activities related to frogs: playing leap frog, jumping...
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Hoop Jumper
Students practice and improve their jumping and landing skills through using different types of jumping patterns. This fun gym-class activity, which is a variation of "tag," reqires music, hula hoops for each student, and vests and foam...
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Service Anyone?
Students already familiar with the proper way to hit a ball with a racket can practice overhand serves. Working in groups, students not only practice their serves but also receive feedback from their group members.
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Pe Central: Follow the Leader
Children take turns being the "leader" and leading their partners through a series of locomotor movements. Includes safety tips, ideas for varying the activity, and other suggestions.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Shark Attack
Learners learn, develop, and practice different jumping patterns as they flee from imaginary "sharks" throughough the gym. This website includes ideas for setting up the gym for this activity as well as suggestions for activity variations.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Wishing Well
Practice your underhand throw has you toss various object into a "Wishing well." As your throws improve, move further away from the wishing well or make the wishing well smaller to increase the difficulty of the activity.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Jumping Patterns
Through this activity, students practice jumping and landing in specific patterns (2-step sequence and 3-step sequence). Included at this website are ideas for varying the activity, assessing students' effort and participation, and...
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Throwing for Distance
Students able to do an overhand throw can work on improving their skill through this simple activity that requires balls to throw, a wall to throw against, and cones to mark a throwing position.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Hail Storm
Students work in teams as they practice and improve their overhand throwing skills in gym class. This website includes a description of "Hail Storm," as well as ideas for varying the activity and adapting it for students with disabilities.
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Pe Central: Swimming Survivor Challenge Ii
Young scholars able to swim should learn and practice basic first aid. Swimmers learn and discuss skills shown on the "Survivor Chllange" task sheet and spinal injury checksheet. Then they learn how to properly use a spinal injury...
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Pe Central: Getting Started With Traveling
Pupils practice locomotor skills: walking, marching, galloping, skipping, and "basic traveling skills" during this fun aerobic gym class activity.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Over, Under, Around, and Through
Through this activity, students "explore a variety of traveling skills" and "understand the concepts of moving over, under, around, and through objects." Set up an obstacle course of props, tunnels, chairs, and other objects in the gym...
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Oscar's Garbage Can
Students practice their throwing skills as they toss "Trash," (foam balls, yarn balls) into "Oscar's Garbage Can." This instructional activity includes suggestions for varying the activity and making sure it is safe.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Simon
A variation of "Simon Says," this game requires students to mimic other students' jumping and landing patterns.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Alligator Alley
Students attempt to escape imaginary alligators throughout the gym as they jump and land in hoops on the gym floor. Includes ideas for varying the activity, making the activity relevant in history class, and modifying the activity for...
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Animal Fun
Young scholars practice and improve their jumping and landing skills as they play this fun game and imitate the jumping styles of frongs, kangaroos, rabbits, and gazelles.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Juggling Cues
Introduce young children to juggling with this activity, which requires students to juggle three plastic grocery bags or scarves.
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Pe Central: Pe Central: Pass for Points
Students, organized into two teams - one playing defense and one playing offense - practice passing, catching, and defending while participating in this variation of flag football.