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Hit a Homer in PE!
Students are introduced to PE rules. They are given feedback on their behavior in class using a bulletin board. Students gather around the bulletin board at the end of each period, if the class followed all the rules that are written...
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Basketball Lay-up
Young scholars practice making lay-ups. They practicipate in the basketball lay up shot. Students are given an assesment sheet where there is a rubic that is used. They are each given five chances to perform each task.
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Sportmanship
Young scholars self assess themselves on their sportmanship. They are given the rubic sheet on sportmanship. Students circle the comment for each area of sportsmanship that best describes them. They are asked if they follow the rules...
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Hot Lava
Students pretend that the area of the gym floor that is purple is land and the yellow sections are lava. Individually, they are to make their way across the room only on land staying out of the lava. To end the lesson plan, they move...
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Basketball: Purposeful and Fun Fitness Activities
Studnets practice basketball skills. They combine cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, and strength fitness activities with skill practice and review of previously learned skills in the fitness development part of a basketball lesson.
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Fitness Points
Students are given an index card with a warm-up on it for them to complete when they enter the classroom. Individually, they are placed around the room in which they complete the warm-up and assigned a total point value. To end the...
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Management Stop and Go
Students discover the proper directions to follow when participating in an activity. As a class, they only move when given the correct command when playing the name game. To end the lesson, they stop playing the game when directed to and...
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Bulldog Tag
Young scholars participate in a game of Bulldog tag. In groups, they are given different colored pinnies in which they try to catch those wearing a different color. To end the lesson, they switch roles between the one doing the tagging...
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Walk Around Ohio
Students walk and accumulate miles in a simulated "walk" around the eighty-eight counties of Ohio. Each class logs an average of twenty miles a week, hanging up a picture of a historic Ohio landmark to represent the different counties...
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Bean Bag Clean-up
Students perform activities to practice locomotor skills. When music begins, students pick up a bean bag and bring it to the corner corresponding to the color of the bean bag. They perform a specified locomotor skill.
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Spaceship Commander Tag
Young scholars review key locomotor skills and the rules of the spaceship commander tag. They choose 3 students to be Space Commanders and the rest of the young scholars are aliens. The game is played using different locomotor movements
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Wipeout (Dancing Legs) Tag
Students choose to dance or do a stationary swimming movement within this lesson. They play a game of noodles and taggers. The teacher explains the rules to the game and then the game begins.
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Finger Pad Basketball Dribbling
Students grasp the concept of using finger pads to control the ball in a hand dribble. At the end of a PE class have students circle or color the part of the hand they use to dribble a ball.
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American Idol Tag
Students role play their favorite judge and chase the other students to try to take their flag football flags away. Then they travel around the gym freely trying not to lose their flags. Students who lose their flags help the judges to...
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Hanukkah Tag Game
Students participate in a tag game involving aspects of the Hanukkah holiday. They discuss the basic tenets of Hanukkah, then play the tag game, with the Candle Makers as taggers and the students tagged freezing into position as candles.
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Pirates of the Caribbean
Students participate in a "Pirates of the Caribbean" tag game to demonstrate scooter skills and safety techniques. Students identify and discuss scooter safety rules, then play a tag game with each student (pirate) on a scooter, with...
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Skipping Tag
Students participate in a tagging game that involves skipping as the locomotor skill. With one person playing "it," students must skip around the tag area trying to get away from the tagger, and with the tagged students trying to deter...
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Turtle Tag
Learners review safety rules for playing a P.E. game and a few students are selected as the taggers. On the signal, learners avoid being tagged by the tagger using only the locomotor skill selected. They who want to avoid an imminent tag...
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Who's Here Today?
Students sing a song while clapping their hands and listening for the first letter of their name. In this attendance activity, students participate in locomotor activities such as turning around and squatting down. Students jump up and...
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Seahorse Tag
Students demonstrate swimming in a pool and review water safety rules. In this swimming lesson, students apply water safety rules in a game of tag. This lesson has variations to challenge more competent swimmers.
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Controlling a Ball With Your Feet
Students practice the skills of stopping and guiding a ball with their feet, as an introduction to a soccer unit.
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Intro. to Controlling a Ball With Your Chest
Students stop and guide a ball with their chest. Note: This is a good lesson to use as an introduction to a soccer unit.
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How to Bounce a Ball
Students practice bouncing a basketball with their right and left hands as well as running while bouncing.
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Rhythm and Rhyming Long Rope Jumping
Learners discuss the importance of rhythm in rope jumping. They practice turning, then jumping. Students discuss the various types of rhymes. They work in groups for a couple of classes, learners rotate from chart to chart trying out...