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Obstacle Soccer
Students practice soccer dribbling, passing, and trapping skills, which enhance students' self-reliance, trust and independence.
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Planet Invasion
Students apply what they have learned about chasing/fleeing/ dodging in a game situation.
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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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Zone Ball
Students are introduced to the basics about zone defense in basketball. In groups, they practice this technique to turn away from gravitating to the ball handler. They also complete non-bounce passes and examine how to move without a...
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Volleyball Bonkers
Students practice aiming with the underhand hit in striking with short-handled implements to introduce them to a underhand hit in volleyball. They encounter the manipulatives of tape, hula hoops and a variety of balls to assist them with...
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Football-2 Minute Drill
Students participate in two minute drills throwing and catching a football. In this football instructional activity, the students are divided into teams and pass the football at various distances. The students may rotate their team roles...
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Design of Airfoil for Given Lift
Young scholars use FoilSim to design an airplane wing that generates a given lift. As they change parameters such as airspeed, altitude, angle of attack, thickness and curvature of the airfoil, and size of the wing area, the software...
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Dance Cards
Students choreograph a simple dance and have experience performing. students choose their own groups-usually of about 3-4, or assign the groups. Each group receives one dance card. They are to decide the order in which to do the steps.
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Sharks and Minnows Soccer Style
Students practice dribbling and shielding a ball with control while someone else is trying to steal it from them.
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Ultimate Sponge Ball
Students learn fitness through a team game. They explore how to move into open spaces to receive passes from teammates.
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Hockey Bowl
Students practice shooting and dribbling a hockey puck/ball. They practice on their skills and are introduced to the proper procedures for striking a hockey puck and dribbling/stick handling, as well as goalie skills/proper procedures...
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Conversion of Energy Into Different Forms
Students study energy conversion and the forms energy may take. In this energy conversion lesson, students study energy conversions in flash paper, rubber bands, mechanical cranks, and a radiometer.
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A Speech for the Sneetches
Students write a speech using Dr. King as an example and the characters from a Dr. Seuss book. For this speech lesson, students read the 'I Have a Dream' speech and use it as a guide to help them write a speech based on the book...
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Cardiovascular Fitness
Students design a cardiovascular fitness program that encourages them to implement it in their daily lives.
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Small-sided Soccer Skill Baseball
Students participate in a lead up game that emphasizes practicing all of the basic soccer skills (e.g., correct punting, dribbling, trapping and passing.)
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Gymnastics Sequence
Students perform a sequence of combined movement skills. They make smooth transitions from one movement to the next and choose the sequence they would like to exhibit.
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De-composers - Terrarium
Students explore the environment by building a mock ecosystem. In this rainforest analysis lesson, students define many environmental and rainforest related vocabulary terms and discuss the current status of our planet's rainforests....
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Forming Groups
Students create groups (teams) the way a teacher hopes they -- various different ideas are presented.
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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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Finding Mass
Student measure mass to discover how pennies have changed in their composition. In this measurement instructional activity, 8th graders investigate through an open-ended problem to discover how the US pennies composition changed in the...
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The Alphabet
Students discover the letters of the alphabet by participating in a game. In this phonics instructional activity, students create books about themselves using their favorite toys and pets. Students utilize a computer program called...
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Four-Corner Cartoon Traveling
Students practice moving safely in a general space and travel using a variety of locomotor movements in this variation of the game Four Corners.