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Physics Around the School: Simple Machines In and Out of the Classroom

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore different machines and the components that encompass the science of physics.  In this physics lesson students explore how things move.
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Linear and Locomotor Movements

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students develop locomotor movements. In this dance movement instructional activity, students identify lines and develop creativity while performing to "Cha Cha Slide". Students discuss how to create dances and difficulty of movements. 
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Organizer
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Star it Chart

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this main idea worksheet, students fill out a star graphic organizer about the main idea, movement, location, place, and more for a subject. Students complete 6 spaces.
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Where Will Your Home be in a Million Years?

For Students 5th - 10th
In this house movement worksheet, learners look at the gps website given and locate where their home may be and what climate change will take place in a million years. Students complete 9 questions.
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Puppet on a String: An Engaging Look at Movement

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine how muscles can work together with joints.  In this movement lesson students use a marionette to observe how muscles work. 
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Using Bands

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners use stretchy bands to complete exercises that build muscle in their body. In this stretchy bands lesson plan, students learn how bands can help build muscle.
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Movement Forms

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students play movement games such as skipping, galloping, and parachutes. In this movement lesson plan, students also learn how to slide properly.
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How Creepy!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students observe and measure a model of slow down slope movement.  In this graphing instructional activity students collect, record, and organize data that apply to models.   
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Labeling the Body

For Teachers 1st
First graders sing about their body. In this music instructional activity students sing the songs "I Shake My Thumb" and "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes". After they sing the songs and add different body parts to extend the songs they...
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Review of Locomotor Skills/Lang.Art/Art/Math

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners study locomotor skills. In this physical activity lesson, students listen to the story known as Rainbow Fish and make a Rainbow Fish together using locomotor skills. 
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Activity
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Bubble Zappers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students participate in a movement activity. Students blow bubbles and try not to let them hit the ground. Students use party blowers to keep the bubbles from hitting the ground.
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Ready, Set, Drift!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students define data, recover data from the Internet, and use information they obtain to solve problems.  In this investigative instructional activity students answer questions on a worksheet and demonstrate the use of a maneuvering...
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Anansi Goes to Lunch

For Teachers Pre-K
Students read the story Anansi Goes to Lunch and complete many language arts-based activities to go with the book. In this language arts lesson plan, students complete activities including phonics, writing, coloring, counting, role...
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Apples, Oranges, and Bananas

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students sing songs about fruit to learn colors. In this colors lesson, students sing a song about apples, oranges and bananas. Students use a movement activity to help reinforce the lesson.
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Dance - Kindergarten Moving Safely in Space

For Teachers K
Students experience dance and movement. In this kinesthetic lesson, students practice movement of their limbs and joints. They use a hula hoop to identify personal space.
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Body Movement

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders interpret and transform drawn lines into locomotive movements. For this improvised movement lesson, 2nd graders draw a line on a piece of paper and use the elements of dance to interpret and transform their draw line into...
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Pass-It-Back Relays: Children are aces at creating their own races.

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Children participate in several relay games in small groups.  In this creating outdoor relay races instructional activity, students develop motor skills and engage in activities that encourage teamwork and creative thinking.  Students...
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Lucky Guess (Group Tricks)

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students work in groups to complete movement activities. In this movement and cooperation lesson, students get into groups and complete movement band skill cards with varying levels of difficulty.
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Mirror, Mirror

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students mirror their partners by moving the same way they do. For this movement lesson plan, students use their bodies and jump ropes and switch leaders every 20 seconds to mirror their partner.
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Honey Bee Communication

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students participate in a role play to show how honey bees communicate with one another. In this honey bee lesson plan, students learn that honey bees communicate with dance. Students create the honey bee environment and role play the...
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Movement

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students conduct an experiment. In this movement lesson, students see how far a marble will roll after coming down a ramp. The students change the height of the ramp to make it roll faster and record their results.
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Moving-Math Hopscotch

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students engage in a hopscotch game where each square represents a number. In this mental math and movement lesson, students take turns playing traditional hopscotch, but add a mental math component where they add or subtract specific...
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Pushes and Pulls

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students examine different types of movement and causes that may affect those movements. In this online interactive forces and motion lesson plan, students use toy cars to observe push and pull and then make predictions and collect data...
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Worksheet
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Word Search: Wheels

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this transportation worksheet, students study words about the topic and locate them in the word search puzzle. Students find 6 words associated with movement and items with wheels.