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Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with Dance
Erin go bragh! Enliven your St. Patrick's Day celebration by teaching your class members some of the combinations found in traditional Irish step dancing.
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Fitness Advertisements
Exercise is good for your heart, your bones, your lungs, and your mood! Middle schoolers read more about the effects of regular exercise before creating their own posters that advertise the benefits of physical fitness.
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Pedometer Trick or Treat
Young scholars monitor the amount of calories burned with the use of a pedometer. They perform various cardiovascular activities and monitor how many steps it takes to burn enough calories to eat one M&M and other snack foods.
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Food Groups and the Food Guide Pyramid
Students read and explain food labels and decide in which part of the food guide pyramid selected food items belong.
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Bean Bag Freeze
Students play an activity similar to tag. After the teacher sets up cones to designate boundaries, students receive a bean bag and scatter in the playing area.
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Pe Central: Body Awareness: Throwing Lesson Plans
This lesson helps the young scholars to get familiar with the movement of their bodies. Also helps to develop their underhand throwing.
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Pe Central: Pe Central: Health Lesson Idea Menu
Pecentral provides fantastic health lesson plans for teachers. The site includes a search menu which allows for category/age specific searching. Searchable topics include: alcohol, drugs, disease, community health, injury prevention,...
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Pe Central: Pe Central: 3 5 Lesson Idea Menu
Pecentral provides fantastic physical education lesson plans specific to 3-5th grade. Site includes search menu which allows specific searching. Searchable areas include: aquatics, balancing, cooperative, dribbling, fitness, jumping,...
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Pe Central: Pe Central: K 2 Lesson Idea Menu
Pecentral provides fantastic physical education lesson plans specific to K-2nd grade. Site includes search menu which allows specific searching. Searchable areas include: aquatics, balancing, body awareness, dribbling, fitness, jumping,...
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Pe Central: Dancing on Different Levels
Used in the preschool or lower elementary grades, this dance can reinforce the concepts of moving in a low, medium and high level as well as practicing movements to the right and left.
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Pe Central: Be the Pizza
The students are going to pretend to be pizza dough being made into a pizza pie. The teacher will give the following step by step instructions for the process of making the pizza. Children respond by moving their bodies as if they were...
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Pe Central: Alphabet Madness
This activity promotes movement through imagery inspired by words associated with each letter of the alphabet.
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Pe Central: Balancing Act!
Students will demonstrate body management skills specific to balance with and without the use of apparatus by working their way through a series of stations. A balancing checklist for assessment is included.
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Pe Central: Locomotor License
This lesson will have students practicing locomotor skills and moving safely in general space. A video and assessment are provided.
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Pe Central: Physical Education Lesson Plans: Pe Central
An outstanding site for PE lesson plan ideas, Classroom Management ideas, health lesson ideas as well as ideas for field day activities. The lessons are broken down by grade levels. Ideas to teach a comprehensive physical education program.
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Pe Central: Water Fitness
Find ideas for water fitness and aerobics at this website. While in a pool, you can use kickboards, water jugs, fins, and water resistant equipment as you participate in a variety of activities: a warm-up, stretches, cardiovascular...
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Pe Central: Swimming Life & Death Situations
Teach your students how to transform a pair of jeans or other piece of clothing into a life preserver while swimming. Learn how one teacher helps his students create their own life-saving flotation devices.
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Pe Central: Jump the River
Young children practice jumping and landing while using proper arm movements to ensure safety and balance. At this website, find a description of the game, "Jump the River," including ideas for demonstrating it in class, ways of varying...
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Pe Central: Throw Hard!
Practice throwing overhand while properly positioning your body and going through "the full range of the throwing motion." This website links to PE Central Overhand Throwing Cues (which provides simple steps on overhand throwing), and...
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Pe Central: Ridgerunner
Young scholars use their imagination and their stamina as they learn about and run through the Appalachian Trail. Students study the Appalachian Trail (in gym or in another class), figure out how many laps around the track would be equal...
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Geographical Distance Skating
This is a fun gym-class activity that requires students to apply simple geography, mathematics, and writing skills. As a class, students skate (or run or walk or bike) around the gym in hopes of gaining mileage. Lesson idea includes...
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: How Far to Mount Katahdin
Organized into 5 parts, this lesson combines physical activity with academic subjects including math, health, and geography. In part I, students calculate how many steps it would take to complete the Appalachian Trail. In parts II and...
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Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Jumping Numbers
Practice jumping and landing with both of their feet in this gym-class activity, which requires young scholars to solve simple math problems. Materials required include: hoops, cards, dice, jump ropes, cones, music, and worksheets.
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Pe Central: Health Lesson Ideas: Receiving a Dwt: Driving While Texting
A lesson plan from PE Central that is essential for teen-agers. Let students experience in a safe way how dangerous it is to text and drive. The lesson plan is well-laid out and not difficult to set up, but can really pack a punch.