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A Spin On Fitness
Young scholars perform a variety of exercises pertaining to each component of fitness while working in a cooperative situation.
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Cooperation Assessment
Students assess their cooperation skills by filling out a cooperative assessment form.
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Cooperation Tag
Young scholars brainstorm a definition for the word cooperation. As a class, they participate in a game in which they try to avoid the taggers. In groups, they surround a tag classmate and help them get to safety. To end the...
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Frog Pond
Students practice the locomotor movements of skipping, galloping, hopping, jumping, etc. They gain practice in moving safely through general space.
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Place Value Tag
Young scholars increase their cardiovascular endurance through movement. At the same time, they learn place value of numbers to the millionths place.
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Math Tag
Students work on solving arithmetic problems with a game of tag. They must solve a problem to be unfrozen.
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Shoot and Score
Students practice accurately kicking a ball. In this gross motor skills instructional activity, students practice kicking a ball through the legs of a classmate, who is the "goal".
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Dance Team/ Collaborative Fitness Routines
Students experience the process of creating a "dance team" type routine by following a set procedure.
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Caveman Tag
Students practice fleeing and dodging skills, spatial awareness, some experience with normal tag games.
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Dribbling Math Challenge
Students practice foot dribbling and hand dribbling with control. In addition it helps to reinforce math concepts.
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Steps to Fitness (with pedometers)
Students evaluate the fitness potential of different activities using pedometers in game/play/exercise situations.
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Moving to Open Space in Basketball Assessment
Students evaluate each other playing in a basketball lead-up activity for about 3 minutes or so.
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Basic Locomotor Movements Assessment
Students' basic locomotor skill movements are assessed using a paper and pencil rubric.
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Throw to the Cone
Students practice throwing to a moving target and increase their facility with accurate throwing by playing this game.
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Volley A Lot
This PE lesson is designed to have young scholars practice the skill of the forearm pass in volleyball.
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Locomotor Treasure Hunt
Young scholars practice in refining their locomotor skills and developing their understanding of pathways and basic map reading skills.
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Shadow Matching
Students pair up with a partner and find a good self space. They choose who "match" who first (i.e., be the "leader"). Standing next to their partner, and only looking at their shadow, each student tries to match their partner
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Turkeys and Feathers
Students play a game of tag while holding the position of turkey or feather. The turkey's are it and when they catch a feather they switch positions. Great for Thanksgiving.
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Mat Move Over
Students move safely in general space to practice transferring weight skills such as a log roll, cartwheel, forward roll, egg roll, leap over, walk over, etc.
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Under the Bridge
Students move in general space using your chosen locomotor movement (i.e. walking, skipping, galloping, etc.) If tagged, students must place themselves in push up position, either on two hands and two feet with flat back and bottom on...