Colorado State University
What Makes a Gas, a Greenhouse Gas?—The Carbon Dioxide Dance
Investigate a heated topic in environmental science. Scholars team up to play the parts of gas molecules in the atmosphere. As the teacher moves about, acting as the electromagnetic wave, learners react as their molecules would to the...
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Food for Thought: Climate Change and Trophic Cascades
Learners examines the arctic food web with a short video about polar bears and an article about bears and warming temperatures. They design an arctic food web and discuss the trophic cascade that could come from climate change.
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Interval Workout
Pupils explore how interval training works by performing activities that involve alternating short bursts of high intensity with lower intensity activities.
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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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4-Corner Fitness
Learners participate in a game called 4-Corner Fitness. Individually, they are given a card with an exercise and location on it. Once they finish one station, they move on to the next one following the music. To end the lesson, they...
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Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving
Learners listen to the book, Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving. They rotate through five motor skills stations, with each station simulating an event from the book.
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Beach Ball Striking
Students practice a variety of striking skills: "sweeping" the ball, passing to partners, and striking at a target. They review and address safety concerns with the use of a long-handled implement/stick and demonstrate how to hold the...
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Scarf Toss Tag
Students review how to properly toss a scarf. In groups, they play the game like an ordinary tag game in which the locomotor skill is changed for each game. If they are tagged, they choose a basket and pick one scarf to juggle.
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"Performance Qualities" Dance Lesson Plan
Eighth graders move across a space practicing a dance as they work on focus and energy.
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Ball Skills- Throwing and Catching
Students practice throwing and catching skills. In this ball skills lesson, students throw and catch beanbags using a proper throwing technique.
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Playing in the Snow
Students practice dribbling and passing skills. In this basketball skills instructional activity, students rotate through a series of winter-themed stations with a partner and practice dribbling while jumping low hurdles, dribbling...
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Volleyball Work It Out
High schoolers practice volleyball skill-related activities while working on cardiovascular and muscular endurance.
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Table Tennis
Students participate in a table tennis game. In this sports lesson, students are taught the rules of the game and various grips to use. Students practice handling the paddle by dribbling the ball one hundred times.
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Jump Rope Around the World (Target Heart Rate)
Young scholars participate in a game where they get 5 "lives." When they miss with the rope the fifth time, they go to another area in the gym. They continue jumping to keep their heart rates elevated.
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Safety Lesson
Young scholars review or introduce personal safety concepts in a variety of areas common to the lives of students.
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Strength
Students participate in static and dynamic activities to develop muscle strength and balance. Free weights are used to work on shoulder, bicep, and tricep muscles. Locomotor skills of hopping, jumping, leaping, skipping, and galloping...
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Full Game of Speedball
Students run lap around the field. They complete dynamic stretching: high knees, high knee kicks, forward lunges, 45 degree, side lunges, and high knee crossover. Students review the scoring and rules of the game speedball. They are...
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Kicking
Fifth graders demonstrate proper kicking technique as it is used in soccer. They practice kicking with different parts of the foot and participate in a kicking relay.
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Throwing for Distance/Accuracy
Students practice throwing for distance and for accuracy.
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Hula Hoop Hoopla!
Students develop spatial awareness through "movement" using hula hoops as the personal parameter.
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Basketball Passing
Second graders practice dribbling and passing a basketball. They also learn the correct finger position for dribbling and how to place their feet when passing.
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"Spatial Awareness" Dance Lesson Plan
Seventh graders explore spatial awareness and then choreograph a dance.
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"Shapes" Dance Lesson Plan
Sixth graders create dances by manipulating shapes with their bodies.