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Ping Pong Soccer

For Teachers 6th - 8th
I know, you are wondering what Ping Pong Soccer might be. It's a soccer type strategy game and the players use ping pong paddles to hit a ping pong ball to score in a goal. Think player safety if you are going to try this activity....
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Who Wants to be a Health Care Worker?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A PowerPoint-based game, reminiscent of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" introduces players to a wide range of health care professions. This resource is meant to be used as a career exploration activity for your high-schoolers.
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Action!!!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Here is a good game to play with your charges. Pairs of pupils roll a die and choose the corresponding numbered card. They read the card and perform the action verb written there until the teacher calls out time.
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Lucky 7s

For Teachers 6th - 7th
This helpful instructional activity explores the probability in tossing a coin and throwing dice. Specifically, it looks at the probability of getting numbers that are significant to the game of craps, assuming that once the math is...
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TIDES

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders are taught the concept of camouflage through the game hide and seek. They view photographs of camouflaged animals on the TIDES website. Students create a poster that camouflages a particular animal based on what they have...
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Rope Volleyball

For Teachers K - 5th
Students use a jump rope as a net and volley a ball or balloon over the net a specified number of times. They work cooperatively and improve their eye-hand coordination as they play a fast-paced game of jump-rope volleyball.
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Let's Play Mathematical Baseball

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of spelling geometric terms and words with number prefixes. For this spelling geometric terms and words with number prefixes lesson, students play a game of baseball. Students spell words correctly to advance...
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The Inflation Game

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explore the goals of economic growth, stability, full employment, freedom, security, equity, and efficiency as they apply to US economic policy. They is expected to analyze how economic growth, stability, and full...
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The Entrepreneur's Game

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explore the basic principles of the US free enterprise system. They examine the basic principles of the US free enterprise system including profit motive, voluntary exchange, private property rights, and competition.
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The Game of Business

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice the economic concepts of scarcity and opportunity cost. They imagine creating their own businesses and brainstorm what they need to know in order to determine when the business is profitable.
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Handling Data: Probability, Chase Me game

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students participate in a simulation in which the aim is for the tortoise to catch up with the hare or vice versa. Moves are decided by throwing two dice. Adding together the numbers on the two dice tells you which animal moves one...
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Take Me Out To the Ball Game

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students use a map to graph and locate major league teams of different sports. In groups, they analyze the population data of the United States and compare it with the amount and location of the major league teams. They share their...
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Heart Word Game

For Students 4th - 5th
In this heart health crossword, students locate 14 words to solve clues and place them in the puzzle. Although this appears to be part of a heart health adult presentation, older students could benefit.
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Birdhouse Shape Match File Folder Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood math worksheet, students color the birds and birdhouses. Students then match the correct birds to the birdhouses with the matching shapes.
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Shape Matching Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood math worksheet, students color the shape cards, cut them out, and then match them according to the shapes pictured on the cards.
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Bat Activities and games

For Teachers 1st
First graders read the book Stelluna by Janell Cannon. In this bat lesson plan, 1st graders use their sense of smell to identify objects, learn and recite a rhyme, and differentiate between the words night and day.
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The Human Knot

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students play a cooperative game to simulate how the United Nations works. In this introduction to the United Nations, students play a cooperative game as a class that requires everyone to cooperate. The teacher uses this game as a...
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Domino Practice

For Teachers K - 1st
Students are given organizing boards and play domino and cube games. These simple games provide fun and practice in categorizing, using dominos and unifix cubes.
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Gargoyles

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a P.E. game to demonstrate using quick changes of direction while running away from a tagger. The class is divided into mover or gargoyle groups, while students change directions and pathways quickly away from...
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Musical Chairs

For Teachers K - 1st
Students participate in a game of musical chairs. In this music game, students listen to music for twenty seconds and when the music stops, the students must find a chair. The student without a chair is eliminated.
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GeoPictionary

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students play the game of Pictionary in pairs or teams using geographic locations and terms instead of name.
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Self-control

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a circle game to practice social skills.
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Wiffle Tag

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in a Wiffle Tag game. Students tag other classmates by touching a designated body part. The name of the body part changes each time someone is tagged. Students practice listening and following directions.
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Upper Body Strength

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students perform various physical activities that increase upper body strength. In groups, students participate in a tug-of-war, a scooter obstacle race, jump rope tricks and wall push-ups. Students participate in a Crab Beach Volley game.