Curated OER
Scrabble Fitness
Hop, skip, and jump your way to picking up letters for a word spelling scrabble game. Get a little aerobic conditioning in while having fun with words. Keep the game simple for the younger learners. You might try putting the letters face...
Curated OER
Switcheroo
Who doesn't want to play tag? Here's a nice movement activity to keep your class running about practicing hopping, jumping, leaping, skipping and whatever motor skills your can think of. I like that the taggers are not "IT" forever, and...
Curated OER
We Can Dance!
Students explore a variety of creative body movements and practice speaking the terms used to demonstrate the movements and shapes. The creation of a video provides an opportunity to learn the vocabulary and practice their speech.
Curated OER
Do As I Do
Lead your class in practicing gross motor body movements. Put on some background music and lead them through hops, skips, jumps, leaps, and running in place. Think of animal movements and have them move like an elephant or slither like a...
Curated OER
States and Capitals Activity
Students explore states and capitals. In this U.S. geography lesson, students practice locomotor skills playing Freeze Tag. Students generate the matching capital when given a specific state name in order to continue the game.
Curated OER
Four Corners Locomotion
A simple P.E. activity will get young athletes running, jumping, hopping, skipping, and crabwalking! These locomotor movement exercises are a great way to build up aerobic endurance. Your students will ask you to play this game again and...
Curated OER
Egg-xactly Right
Students match colors and sizes, and manipulate the plastic eggs to put them together. They stand along the perimeter of the gym with a partner. Students have an Easter basket as a pair. They are given a signal, the first person of each...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Cheerleading
Here you can learn all about the sport of cheerleading! Find out what kind of equipment you will need to get started, how to play it safe, what kind of arm motions and jumps you will need to learn, and some fun facts!
PE Central
Pe Central: Jump the River
Young children practice jumping and landing while using proper arm movements to ensure safety and balance. At this website, find a description of the game, "Jump the River," including ideas for demonstrating it in class, ways of varying...
PE Central
Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Jumping Numbers
Practice jumping and landing with both of their feet in this gym-class activity, which requires young scholars to solve simple math problems. Materials required include: hoops, cards, dice, jump ropes, cones, music, and worksheets.
PBS
Peep and the Big Wide World: Shapes and Patterns
This interactive game focuses on repeated patterns to create dance moves.
PE Central
Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Spot Jumping
Young children practice jumpting and hopping through "Spot jumping," a game that requires them to listen to an instructor's directions and perform specific hopping tasks. This website includes ideas for homework related to the activity,...
PE Central
Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Who Let the Frogs Out?
This activity requires learners 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...
PE Central
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...
PE Central
Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Shark Attack
Students 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.
PE Central
Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Simon
A variation of "Simon Says," this game requires pupils to mimic other students' jumping and landing patterns.
PE Central
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...
PE Central
Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Animal Fun
Students 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.
Tufts University
Tufts University: Pentathlon
This site, which is provided for by Tufts University, gives a description of the five games involved in the ancient Olympic Pentathlon and the rules.
Tufts University
Perseus Digital Library: Ancient Olympic Running
This site from the Perseus Digital Library of the Tufts University provides information on the four types of running races are described. The stadion race was the oldest of these events. The different lengths of the race are provided.