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Balloon Water Fun
Students put a few pennies into a balloon and blow it up. Students attach the balloons to a clothes line. Students draw targets on the balloons and use water guns to hit the target.
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Goal Ball
Students participate in some laps around the gym and then listen as a group to learn the history of the game Goal Ball. They go over the rules and learn how to play the game dividing into two teams. Three people play first for each team...
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Map Coordinate Bingo
Young scholars play a bingo-type game to locate cities by coordinates. They explain the use of orientation on a map and identify cities in the western hemisphere. They compare road maps, shutttle images, and a CIR image and obtain an...
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Probability: the Study of Chance
Students experiment to determine if a game is fair, collect data, interpret data, display data, and state and apply the rule for probability. Students use a simple game for this experiment.
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Cat Time
First graders demonstrate telling time on clocks. They stand at one end of a field while the teacher calls out a time. They )cats) who set their clocks to the correct time try to run past the teacher (bulldog) without getting caught.
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Letter Chase
First graders are consonants or vowels. If a vowel is called out the vowels try to run to the base line and the consonants chase them and try to tag them. If a consonant is called out, the consonants run to their base line chased by the...
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The Letter Race
Students practice identifying the letters in the alphabet. They use this activity in phyical education class and run to each letter when they identify it correctly. They also state the name of different objects throughout the room.
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Rhyme Charades
Young scholars participate in a game called "Rhyme Charades." The teacher thinks of a word to begin the charades game giving the clue "my word rhymes with ...". The students who have a guess stand in the middle of the circle and...
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Fair Housing and Diversity
Students study the civil rights law of the fair housing act and reinforce learning by playing different intriguing games like Minority Monopoly, which teach diversity adn equality.
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The Great Escape
Pupils are introduced to human rights. They comprehend the democracy, legal and human rights and responsibilities, systems of justice, and skills in communication and working with others. Students work in teams. They make a long,...
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How Many Seeds?
Students write numbers on apple shapes, and then show their understanding of the number's value by putting the corresponding number of seeds on each apple.
Knoxville Art Museum
Lee Walton: Codes in Drawings
Familiar with the systems-based sports drawing of experimental artist Lee Walton? If so, this drawing exercise if for you. Young artists observe an activity over time, develop a coded language for the activity, and then draw a...
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Vowel Catcher
Young scholars reinforce their knowledge of different vowel sounds while playing a form of tag.
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Spotting Good Serves
Students practice making accurate and consistant serves in a challenging situation.
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21 - Football
Students practice catching and throwing while being defended and defending areas of a field.
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Monster in the Forest
Learners maintain ball control while using their finger pads to dribble around general space, and keep the ball at waist level.
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Ball Throw Relay
Learners use ball-handling skills while running. In this ball-handling lesson plan, students divide into teams, toss the ball back and forth while running in a relay format.
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Shark Attack
Students develop the different jumping patterns (hopping; jumping using 2 feet take-offs and landings; leaping; 1-to-2 foot jumps; 2-to-1 foot jumps)
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Primary Bouncing
Students develop hand and ey coordination. The focus is upon handling a ball. This could be helpful for practice for sports like basketball or volleyball. This helps with repetition to develop muscle memory and visual or spatial ability.
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Man From Mars
Students develop an awareness of and practice the mobility needed to run around with and from other Students.
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The Dragons are Coming!
Students develop an awareness of and practice the mobility needed to run around with, and from, other Students.
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Say /o/
Ollie the octopus is occupied! Use this tongue twister to help youngsters learn the /o/ sound. After practicing the target sound, learners should print the letter. When they are familiar with the letter and its sound, the group will...
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Baseball - America's Pastime
Students complete Internet research about baseball and baseball players. They complete a variety of activities including writing an epitaph for Jackie Robinson, a news article about him, and make graphs displaying salaries of a number of...