Oscar's Garbage Can

Support children in living fun, active, and healthy lives with a video on physical and health literacy. Whether its learning basic skills like running, jumping, and throwing, or making healthy choices about the foods they eat,...

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.

Students practice their throwing skills as they toss "Trash," (foam balls, yarn balls) into "Oscar's Garbage Can." This lesson includes suggestions for varying the activity and making sure it is safe.

Students practice their hand and eye coordination in a ball throwing activity.  In this physical education lesson, students participate in a game where they sit in a circle and throw to each other only once until everyone has had a...

Students practice both underhand and overhand throwing using plastic bags as balls. They also explore how to hit a target, throw a ball through a hoop, or throw a ball to a partner.

This is a safe throwing activity through which young students can learn and practice underhand and/or overhand throwing.

Encourage students to kick a soccer ball as hard and as far as they can. At this website, find ideas for helping students safely kick a ball and for setting goals.

At this website, find tips to help you learn how to dribble a ball with your feet. Teachers and coaches wishing to teach this skill can post this information before offering a demonstration to show what dribbling is.

Introduce young children to dribbling a ball with their feet. This lesson idea will help students learn to keep control of the ball and can be used both in gym class and in soccer practice.

Learners explore the human body by participating in a physical education activity. In this bean bag lesson plan, students identify the hand eye coordination skills necessary to throw and catch a bean bag with a partner. Learners throw,...