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All-Star Award
Students compete for points by wearing the appropriate shoes on their P. E. days. Each class moves bases on a baseball field as they earn points.
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Hot Hoops
Students work on jumping and landing skills and cooperation. This lesson enables students to better use in space, while learning different colors. For this game, everyone is a winner.
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Partner Tag 20
Students are asked to find a partner and join hands (preferably not interlocking fingers) or hook elbows.
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Coral Reef Choreographic ProjectTo
Students enhance their understanding of how animals function in a habitat.Students are scattered individually and in small groups. About half of students make coral shapes in small groups. The other half of students move like animals in...
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Shape Shifters
Students recognize different shapes and colors. When the music stops students should move to and stand on a shape. Ask students "who is standing by a square, circle," etc., and ask what color they are standing on.
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Rollerblade Scarf Tag
Students fulfill aerobic capacity through a rollerblading activity.
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Surfing Warm Up
Students, when the drums are playing, imitate a drummer. When the music changes (drums stop), students imitate a surfer, bending at the knees and moving up and down.
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Fancy Dribbling
Students enter the playing area and pick up a ball of their choice to dribble. Then find a good self space and face the teacher with the ball between their feet. When the music starts they are to dribble all over the playing area.
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Shape Toss
Learners get a bounce ball and find a Polyspot. On the teacher's signal, students underhand throw to a target. They keep their own score: one point each time they hit a target.
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Toad Tag
Pupils who are chosen as taggers move throughout the area tagging others using a locomotor pattern of choice like walking, hopping, skipping, etc. When tagged, a spell has been cast upon them, turning them into a toad or frog.
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Phone Tag
Students play tag with a foam ball. When a student gets tagged by a phone ball, they must walk over to the teacher and recite their phone number.
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Locomotor Change Tag
Young scholars are in scattered formation within the playing area. The identified chasers each have a foam ball. On the signal they chase using a locomotor movement. When tagged a students changes movement.
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Foot Tag
Students use a yarn or fleece ball. On the signal (whistle, music) students move around trying to hit as many different classmates feet as possible.
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Stinger Tag
Third graders, in teams, use an assigned color ball to hold as they move and tag.
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High Ten Tag
Students are scattered within the playing area. Chasers have a foam ball. They chase the other students. When someone is tagged,they freeze with their hands over their head. They jump up and give a high five to unfreeze someone.
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Equipment Fun/Forming Groups
Students practice creative and safe play using P.E. equipment by themselves and with a partner.
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Martian Hop
Students practice square dance calls in a non-traditional way using "Martian Hop" by The Ran-Dels.
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Hot Potato
Students practice throwing using scarves, beanbags, yarn balls, playground balls, gator balls, junior basketballs, etc., switching until they have thrown all of the equipment.
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Frisbee Throw and Catch
Students practice throwing and catching a Frisbee with a partner. They start close together and take one step back after each successful throw and catch.
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Team Leap Frog
Students participate in a team game to determine how many people on the other team they can tag and have squatting at the end of the time period.
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Monster Mash Dance
Students dance to the song, "Monster Mash" and explore how to get moving at the beginning of class.
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Throw and Catch Tennis
Students practicewith a racket, to learn strategies for moving the ball around the court and the importance of placing the ball in different spots .
