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Skipping Through Numbers
Students identify numbers 1-10 and place them in the correct order. They practice different locomotor movements and move out into the general space as directed (skip, hop, gallop, slide, etc.) and return with one card. They place the...
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Skipping- Introductory Lesson
Learners particpate in an introductory activity to skipping. They move in and out of spaces, whenever they come to a line on the floor they must jump over it. They repeat the actions just practiced, but they use a jump rope and jump over...
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Movement Sequences
Students participate in balancing and locomotor rolls. They work with a partner to see if their actions are smooth. They collaboratively create a new sequence as partners using the learned actions.
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Follow the Leader Fitness Jog/Walk
Students demonstrate the fun of jogging/walking in a creative way, work on pacing. They work cooperatively in groups.Students begin by following the teacher and later after they become comfortable and get to be leaders themselves.
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Animal Antics
Students start at a posted cone with the picture of an animal of your choice. They move as they perceive that animal to get to one of the other cones. Upon arriving at another cone they repeat the process until they have portrayed all...
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Clothes on the Line
Students creatively move using a variety of non-locomotor and locomotor movements.
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Preschool Lesson: Guinea Pigs
For this Guinea Pig themed lesson, students hear the story, Guinea Pigs Add UP! and then engage in several themed learning activities. Each activity fosters skills in letter/number recognition, art, math or writing.
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Dolphins
Students explore sea life. In this cross curriculum fine arts, science, and P.E. "dolphins" lesson, students sing songs and play games about dolphins, perform water experiments, create mosaics, and use their five senses to explore sand...
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Dinosaur Days
Students investigate the age of dinosaurs while examining the characteristics of three kinds of dinosaurs. They examine plant eaters, meat eaters, and flying dinosaurs while determining how to classify things. They rotate through centers...
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Teaching Arithmetic and Math Concepts to Headstarters
Students discover early number concepts for numbers 1 through 5. In this number concepts activity, students work in stations doing hands-on activities such as sorting colored blocks, stringing beads, and counting sticks. Students also...
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Snow Man
Students sit in a circle and practice rolling balls of various sizes to classmates. They construct a paper snowman using various sized circles and then name and label different body parts.
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Let's Get Skipping
First graders listen as the teacher reads the story "Leo the Late Bloomer." They discuss things that they can't do but their friends can do. The students discuss the way Leo dealt with this situation (kept practicing until he could do...
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Circus Lesson
Students take part in group entertainment activities. In this circus instructional activity, students discuss their own memories of a circus and conduct several activities such as juggling scarves and creating balloon animals. Students...
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"Subtraction Bowling"
Students experience the math concept of subtraction without regrouping. They practice subtraction bowling to work on their basic subtraction skills. Each student demonstrates mastery of the addition and subtraction facts, the meaning of...
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Muscles
In this muscles worksheet, learners describe characteristics of the three types of muscle and the function of each. Then they describe the gross and microscopic anatomy of skeletal muscle. Students also describe the steps that occur in a...
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Hula Hoop Hoopla
Students participate in various activities using the hula hoop. They should follow directions given and experience a variety of locomotor and manipulative movements. They study to work as an individual and a team member.
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Hula Hoop Hoopla
Students practice the skills of using a hula hoop in order to expand other skills like following directions. They are given and experience a variety of locomotor and manipulative movements. They work as an individual and a team member.
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Integrating Japanese into an Elementary School P¿¿DE¿¿DLesson
Students, working in teams of 2 or 3, create hiragana characters using their bodies.
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Sequencing the Daily Calendar
Students identify the passage of time. They also practice with basic mathematical concepts.
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Video Lesson
Hats off to Barry for a great idea. He teaches Adapted PE to elementary school children, and when he is absent they often don't get to have PE. So he came up with this great plan to videotape short lessons that his pupils could follow,...
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Shadows
Pupils read books, learn about the letter s, and eat raisins all to learn about shadows. In this shadows lesson plan, students also go outside and look at shadows and sing songs about shadows.
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Moving Lines
Students gain an introduction to gestural line drawing along with art history correlations. They are encouraged to focus on the energy, mass, and expression of the subject rather than on illustrated replication.