Dance Cards

From shuttle run relays to ACTIVE Bingo, you'll be elated to have this PE resource packet in your tool belt for your next fitness lesson. After all, who wouldn't want to play a game called, "Elephants, Giraffes, and Palm Trees"?

In this sport learning exercise, students complete a set of 8 questions about sports. Answers are included on page 2. A reference web site is given for additional activities.

Students examine ways to include low level exercise activities into their daily routines. Among the activities they discuss are walking short distaqnces instead of driving, taking the stairs, and parking further from stores.

Let little dancers choreograph a dance using steps they have learned in the unit. Write the names of the dance steps that have been taught on sets of index cards. Make sure that each set of cards you create has a mix of the dance steps....

There are really only four basic moves in this line dance. Those dance moves are: grapevine, slide, marching, and then dipping and clapping. Each 8-count is repeated twice, for a total of a 64-count dance. The unique addition to this...

Students measure their physical abilities. In this lesson plan on staying active, students record their physical abilities and try to improve upon their own results.

Students participate in various physical warm-up activities after reading their "fortune."

Students identify artistic expression by participating in a morph activity. In this art analysis activity, students identify the work of Keith Haring and examine some of his flip books. Students practice creating artistic transitions...

Students practice recognition of different music notes and their values and work on throwing cues, scoring, and addition.