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Pe Central: Dance Lesson Ideas: Space Jam Dilemma: Dance
Learn a new line dance during a gym-class activity. The "Space Jam," line dance is an easy way to have fun and participate in an aerobic activity.
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Pe Central: Cooperative Learning: Cooperative Handball
Teach students "Cooperative handball," and have them practice working with others. This website includes the rules to "Cooperative handball," as well as suggestions for forming teams and for adapting the sport for students with...
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Pe Central: Dance Lesson Ideas: Add on Line Dancing
After inventing their own dance moves, students are to teach them to classmates. These lesson plans provide tips for encouraging creativity and getting all students involved in teaching and learning dance moves.
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Pe Central: Fitness Tests Cues: Push Ups
At this website, find tips to help you properly do push ups as well as an animated demonstration. Learn how to position your feet, back, and arms and also learn how to do a "Modified," push up.
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Pe Central: Swimming Survivor Challenge Iv
Students able to swim well under water are ready to practice using a mask, snorkel, and fins while collecting items from the pool floor. Students, organized into small groups, work together to retrieve sunken "treasures" in limited...
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Pe Central: Ditto a Cooperative Game
In groups, students not only design and build something using equipment set for them but also write a detailed description of the item they have created so that others can follow their lead. This activity requires students to be...
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Pe Central: Dance Lesson Ideas: Cool Line
Use the guidelines provided at this website to introduce young learners to a simple line dance. Children will learn to move to a beat while participating in a fun, low-impact aerobic activity.
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Pe Central: Dance Lesson Ideas: Staying Alive
Learn and teach a simple line dance created for the Bee Gees' song, "Stayin' Alive." Recommended for elementary young scholars, the dance steps provided here could easily be simplified (or made more difficult) for students of different...
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Pe Central: Dance Lesson Ideas: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
This website describes a simple line dance for the simple holiday song, "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." Also provides an option for simplifying the dance.
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Pe Central: Classroom Management: Fitbucks
Physical education teachers can use this activity to help enforce good behavior in the classroom. Whenever students follow posted class rules, they will earn "Fitbucks," which will allow them to participate in the activity of their chosing.
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Pe Central: Shortenin' Bread Shuffle
At this website, learn the simple steps associated with a new line dance, which can be taught as part of a gym-class activity and exercise.
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Pe Central: Mystery Puzzle Race
Students work in teams to complete physical tasks and, in the process, solve a sports- or health-related puzzle. Modify this activity to make it more challenging or to meet the needs of students with disabilities.
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Pe Central: Swimming Survivor Challenge I
Students familiar with basic swimming strokes learn and review Red Cross swimming skills through this activity, which is loosely based on the television show "Survivor." Students, organized into small groups, or "tribes," earn points...
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Pe Central: Dance Lesson Ideas: Follow the Leader Soca Style
Student familiar with simple dance steps will enjoy this line dance activity, which helps students practice moving to music, following a leader's steps, and creating their own moves.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Fitness Four Square
At this website, learn about a game that combines four square and other aerobic exercises. Includes ideas for assessing students' participation in the activity as well as adapting the activity for students with physical disabilities.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Twelve Days of Winter Break
At this website, find exercises for each of the "Twelve days of winter break." Stay fit during the holidays and work these simple exercises into your daily routine.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Fitness Race Track
In the gym, set up a "fitness race track" where students can both run and participate in a variety of exercises like push-ups, crunches, and jump roping. A great warm-up activity to precede a sport or physically-demanding activity.
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Bowl a Rama
Introduce children to bowling in this gym-class activity. Young students practice rolling a ball with partners and then practice rolling a ball toward specific targets.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Partner Mile Run/heart Rate Calculation
While working (and running) with a partner, a student works on "improving fitness, calculating target heart rates, and prepar[ing] for the mile run physical fitness test." This website includes a "Partner Recording Sheet" that will help...
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Fitness/strength Conditioning
Introduce students to strength conditioning with a trip to the weight room. After studying the muscles and their functions, students are ready to start strengthening their own muscles with the use of gym equipment and to write about...
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Pe Central: Ghostbusters (Tossing & Catching Scarves)
Young scholars not only practice tossing and catching in this activity, but will also use their creativity as they create and demonstrate their own "ghost" tricks.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Plans: Push Up Routine
Because push-ups are part of most fitness-related tests, it is important that students practice push-ups and, in the process, improve upper body strength. Students able to do push-ups and able to "hold a push-up position for at least 30...
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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,...
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Throw and Catch Tennis
Learners can be introduced to tennis or racquetball through this simple lesson where students "Learn strategies for moving the ball around the court and the importance of placing the ball in differnt spots."