Primary Resources
Warm Ups & Cool Downs for Children
What makes an effective warm-up and cool-down activity? as well as tips for leading stretches. Find detailed activity plans, as well as tips for leading stretches, for elementary school, tag-based games (including one game called "Toilet...
Purdue University
Healthy Body Image: Healthy Exercises for Every Body
From three-way neck rolls to a figure-5 hurdler's stretch, this is an ultimate guide to healthy exercises. It begins with a bulleted list of general guidelines on cardiorespiratory exercise, flexibility, resistance exercises, and range...
Peaceful Playgrounds, Inc.
10 Rainy and Snow Day Activities for Indoor Recess and PE
Don't let the rain and snow put a damper on your PE lessons. This collection of indoor activities is a perfect way to keep students active regardless of the weather outside.
Curated OER
Quick and easy PE games
Students praactice flexibility, endurance and training. They participate in physical education games such as hockey, "GOAL Bats" and basketball skills training.
Curated OER
Stretching Muscles Properly
Tootsie rolls as a teaching aid? Absolutely. Demonstrate to young athletes the importance of warmups and stretching with an activity that asks them to try and stretch a piece of cold taffy. Class members hold the taffy in their...
Curated OER
5 Components of Physical Fitness
Physical fitness is a vital part of maintaining our students' health. This PowerPoint imparts the importance of physical fitness and the 5 components they need to understand in order to obtain a healthy body. This presentation is well...
Curated OER
Primary PE Lesson
Students divide into two groups facing each other; tossing the bean bags to each other. The teacher calls out names of unhealthy food and students start to throw beanbags back and forth to their partner. When students hear a healthy...
Curated OER
Scarf Juggling
Students participate in three different activities in a PE lesson. Students warm-up by dancing and following instructions in a song, stretch and work on flexibility by playing a game of Steal the Bacon and finish up with juggling.
Curated OER
Horton Hatches the Egg
Learners explore space awareness and safe movement. In this movement/physical education lesson, students listen to the book Horton Hatches a Who. Learners pretend to be Horton and rotate from hula hoop to hula hoop performing various...
Curated OER
Musical Hoops
Students are introduced to the five health related concepts, muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardiovascular endurance, body composition and flexibility through a game of musical hoops which incorporates math operations.
Clarkson University
Understanding Energy (With a Pendulum)
Have you ever wanted to play with a giant pendulum? An experiment allows small groups to do just that. They gather data and make observations as they complete the included worksheet. The lesson lays out each instruction including how...
Curated OER
Personal Fitness Assessment
Learners engaged in practice for a physical fitness exam. The practice is beneficial for overall student fitness. The instructor measures key factors of health that include height and weight.
Curated OER
Bean Bag Fitness Fun
Young scholars move a bean bag in a variety of activities aimed at increasing flexibility.
Curated OER
States of Fitness
Young scholars participate in physical activities coordinating to divisions on a map.
Curated OER
Jump Jump Jump
Students demonstrate their ability to jump rope. In this jump rope lesson, students are divided into small groups and complete each jump challenge.
Curated OER
"Know How" to Line Up
Learners identify and define several movements physically acted out. They participate in a freeze activity in which they line up performing different movements. For example, they line up (1) if they are doing a strength exercise, (2)...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Physical Intelligence
A curriculum that is used to develop balance, agility, flexibility, strength, and an appreciation for physical intelligence. Curriculum includes lecture notes and assignments.