PLT4M

JANUARY 31, 2025

Basketball games for elementary PE are more than just fun activitiesthey help students develop essential motor skills, coordination, and spatial awareness. Dribbling games for elementary PE in particular provide an excellent way for students to build confidence and control with the basketball.

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PLT4M

JANUARY 29, 2025

Throwing and catching games for elementary PE are more than just fun activitiesthey help students develop essential motor skills, coordination, and spatial awareness. Beyond motor skill development, these games also support other standards like Standard 3 (Developing social skills through movement). Grades 3-5: 1.5.10

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PLT4M

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

At PLT4M, we teach and practice the underhand roll via fun and dynamic bowling activities for elementary PE. Teaching Underhand Roll Via Bowling Lesson Plans For Elementary PE Bowling provides an exciting and engaging way to teach the underhand roll in elementary physical education. Download Now!

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Instead, PE should be a regular part of the curriculum at every grade level , starting in elementary school and continuing through high school. Focus on teaching lifelong skills in various domains and units to prepare students for an active future. Offering PE classes only once a week is not enough to create meaningful change.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The K-sixth physical education teacher at Faith Mather Sossaman Elementary School is devoted to making sure students exercise their bodies along with their brains. Town/neighborhood: I have lived in San Tan Valley for over 12 years, but I teach at Faith Mather Sossaman in the Queen Creek Unified School District.

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SHAPE America

MARCH 24, 2022

Students around the field are throwing and catching discs, learning movement skills, encouraging one another, and enjoying physical activity in the process. Grade-Level Outcome (Grade 4): Praises the movement performance of others both more skilled and less skilled. I threw it too far,” the thrower apologizes. That is the “structure.”.

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Human Kinetics

JULY 18, 2022

Teaching Fundamental Motor Skills, Fourth Edition , is the one must-have book for all new and veteran elementary physical education teachers! A corresponding picture for each cue shows proper movement form, which allows students to see and say as they do to mesh auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning.

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Elementary P.E. Games

MARCH 18, 2022

You can use this Spring brain break as a movement activity, an elementary PE warm up game, or as a fun workout to get your kids/students moving! If you’re looking for more PE games, classroom activities, and teaching resources then be sure to check out my Facebook group calle d: The PE Lounge . Stay Connected.

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Elementary P.E. Games

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

I’ll go into further details down below or you can go straight to the video You can use this activity as an Encanto brain break, Encanto quiz, or just as a fun movement game to get some exercise! If you’re interested in more brain breaks, elementary PE activities, or games for kids, then be sure to check out the Who Will Win?

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Carly's P.E. Games

AUGUST 24, 2018

My name is Carly Glanzman, and I've been teaching Elementary P.E. I have a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Movement Science (aka. Physical Education), and a minor in Elementary Education. I love teaching P.E.! Physical Education Welcome Letter - 2018/2019 WELCOME Welcome back to school! since 2005.

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Gopher Sport

JANUARY 15, 2025

Its a game of strategy, skill, and movement that challenges players to work together while having a whole lotta fun! Adapting Boardball for Younger Students Volleyball can be a tough game to teach, especially for younger students who often struggle with keeping the ball in the air while contending with a tall net.

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Elementary P.E. Games

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Halloween Races is fun movement break and brain break game for kids! If you’re looking for more PE games, classroom activities, and teaching resources then be sure to check out my Facebook group calle d: The PE Lounge . appeared first on Elementary P.E. Stay Connected.

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Carly's P.E. Games

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

This is my 18th year teaching for Kenowa Hills Public Schools, and I must say, this has been the BEST start to the school year that I have experienced! My goal is to MAXIMIZE our time together with lots of movement, exercise, sports and games. Welcome back to school everyone! I feel so blessed to work at KHPS.

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Schooling Elementary PE Physical Activity 130

SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

If you are teaching older students in health education class, another activity idea would be to have them compare the stores, restaurants and health facilities that are available in neighborhoods of higher and lower socioeconomic status. An example of one of the correct answers and its accompanying movement.

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Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 31, 2025

In my last post here , I considered what it means to teach physical education for effective learning. In this blog, I connect back to an idea I have discussed before in relation to games based teaching here , that is making a physical education program meaningful. Adventure Education. Cone et al.

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Gopher Sport

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In a recent survey of elementary teachers, it was found that most start off the school year with some form of rules/procedures coupled with games of low organization (fun, teamwork, cooperation). As the year progresses, most continue with units focusing on fundamental movement skill development (FMS). What to Teach?

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PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2025

Elementary PE Sub Plans In many elementary school physical education lessons, some level of equipment or setup is required. At PLT4M, each elementary PE lesson plan includes a simple 1-page activity sheet that outlines all the important information for the class. Download Now!

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Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

A well-designed sports program has the capacity to teach teamwork, sportsmanship, grit, leadership, and many other life skills, as well as a lifelong love for their game. Children have shorter limbs and different leverage points compared to adults, which influences their biomechanics during movements like throwing, kicking, or running.

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Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Ask most elementary students what their favorite school activity is, and they will most likely respond “RECESS”! Because we are the movement experts. Teach students games they can play on their own during PE time. Teach and review playground safety with students , especially with playground structures such as monkey bars.

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Gopher Sport

MARCH 3, 2025

Motor Skill Development: The act of bowling requires coordinated movements, improving hand-eye coordination, balance, and throwing mechanics. The primary goals of teaching Bowling in Physical Education do not include teaching the routines of how you play at a bowling alley. Take turns rolling to knock down a pin.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Ashley is just beginning her teaching career at Westar Elementary. She has a passion for inspiring young minds to embrace movement and creates a fun and engaging learning environment where every child feels motivated to be active. We’re thrilled to announce that Ashley Hicks is our Future Professional Award winner!

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School Yard

AUGUST 27, 2024

Play-based learning is presented not just as a teaching strategy but as a fundamental approach to actively engaging students in making sense of the world around them. Our expert guests share creative examples of play activities, emphasizing the benefits of peer teaching and inclusion.

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Gopher Sport

JUNE 6, 2023

Inexpensive, portable, simple to use, easy to store – scarves should be in every PE teacher’s repertoire, especially towards the end of year when you find yourself teaching somewhere other than your gym! There is nothing like the versatility of juggling scarves for elementary physical education! It’s safe and doesn’t travel very far.

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Elementary P.E. Games

OCTOBER 21, 2022

If you’re looking for more PE games, classroom activities, and teaching resources then be sure to check out my Facebook group calle d: The PE Lounge . appeared first on Elementary P.E. Stay Connected. The post SpongeBob Games For Kids – SpongeBob Races!

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Moving Minds Blog

MAY 10, 2022

Teachers often fall along a continuum of integrating movement in their classrooms, ranging from fully comfortable to extremely hesitant, for a variety of reasons. The post Teacher’s Perspective: How Elementary Students Actually Respond to Active Classrooms appeared first on Moving Minds Blog.

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The Physical Educator

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dance is a polarizing subject in the world of physical education: some teachers love to teach it, other teachers can’t even imagine themselves teaching it. We teach them to love dancing, as early and often as possible. I understand the importance of support musicality when teaching dance. Let’s dive in!

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PLT4M

APRIL 22, 2024

At PLT4M, we recommend teaching gymnastic skills to the entire class allowing ample students time to practice the movements together. 2) Tumbling – Forward Roll For all of our tumbling movements in gymnastics lesson plans, we want to move with control. Option to modify the movement by bringing your feet further apart.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

And on top of that, we are tasked with teaching certain components of health and wellness.” An introduction to all things movement and fitness! Each lesson begins with a guided warm up, followed by movement education and technique work. Here, Lulu introduces the Warrior 2 pose and different variations and modifications.

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Gopher Sport

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Parkour can contribute to meeting the SHAPE America’s National Standards and Grade-level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education in elementary schools. There are five different movement families within parkour: (1) landings, (2) spins, (3) vaults, (4) wall movements and (5) swings. Types of Movement Families: 1.

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Montessori Physical Education

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The student being held back is almost always from upper elementary or middle school. This is not a good lesson to teach our students. Then, the classroom teacher will realize that their kinesthetic learner is correctly taking in the information in a setting that encourages the movement that that student desperately needs.

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PLT4M

MARCH 6, 2023

Alex has an undergraduate degree in Physical Education Teaching and a master’s degree in Curriculum and Teaching in Physical Education. UDL has emerged as a framework that uses a variety of teaching methods to remove barriers and increase access to learning to provide ALL students equal opportunities to learn and succeed.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Implicit – Strength Training Activity A fitness center or weight room is a fantastic place to teach the skills of responsible decision-making. Through an introduction to basic weight-lifting movements, students learn how to create a safe space for themselves and others to explore fitness and exercise.

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Montessori Physical Education

JANUARY 15, 2023

Your students will absolutely love the dynamic, fast-paced game that utilizes a diving headbutt movement as the main mode of play! In lower elementary, the ball can be passed to a teammate without penalty. In upper elementary, the ball must cross the midline after every hit, or it is a point for the other team. ·

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Gopher Sport

APRIL 10, 2024

Teaching Physical Education for 17 years in the Topeka Metropolitan area has been a labor of love and a highlight of my life. So impactful, that Topeka School District decided to create a whole day of Professional Development and purchase BlazePod for each elementary Physical Education teacher in the district.

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Mindful PE

JULY 14, 2021

One of the most impactful tools I use, both when I taught elementary, as well as now as a PE teacher, are Brain Breaks. We all know how much movement matters to children (and adults!) What I have found is that it is often easier to teach these skills when academic challenges are removed. of all ages.

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Gopher Sport

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The biggest addition is that Grades 7-12 units and lesson plans were added and given equal billing to the elementary program. They have a basketful of things to teach, but they are not organized in any educational scheme. They have a basketful of things to teach, but they are not organized in any educational scheme.

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Stanford Childrens

MARCH 25, 2024

One boy was a teenager in high school, the other a child in early elementary school. Eventually she married, had three children, obtained a teaching credential, and became a high school social studies and English teacher. They shared similar, life-threatening cancer diagnoses and were enduring many of the same treatments.

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