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Vernier - A Speedy Slide with EasyData™ App and CBR 2™

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Mathematicians use a CBR 2™ motion detector to determine their speed or velocity going down a playground slide. They also experiment with different ways to increase their speed going down the slide. Finally, students complete the Student...
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Take a Ride in Honor of National Bike Month

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Tap into the joy of bicycling with these suggestions to make a celebration of National Bike Month a blast.
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Birds, Feathers, and Oil

For Teachers K - 4th
Point out the Gulf of Mexico and tell your class about the 2010 oil spill. Give each emerging ecologist a large bird feather. Have them make observations about it and then predict what would happen if it were to be placed in oil. Have...
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Advanced Throw and Catch

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students practice their throwing and catching skills. They use scooters to practice improve their skills. Students practice rebounding the ball against the wall. They play dodgeball as a class.
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Shark Attack

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students develop the different jumping patterns (hopping; jumping using 2 feet take-offs and landings; leaping; 1-to-2 foot jumps; 2-to-1 foot jumps)
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Magician Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a creative version of the game freeze tag.
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Body Toss

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice the skill of underhand throwing, focusing on cues.
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Hungry Crabs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students improve upper body strength and endurance. They crab walk inside the boundaries and collect the bean bags. They are only allowed to get one bean bag at a time. Once they get a bean bag, they place it on their stomach and crab...
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Volleying (Setting)

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars demonstrate basic volleying skills. They perform the forward backward stride and discuss its benefits. Students portray flexed knees and elbows, as well as positioning of hands in preparation of a set pass. They...
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Hungry Crabs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students improve upper body strength and endurance. They crab walk inside the boundaries and collect the bean bags. They are only allowed to get one bean bag at a time. Once they get a bean bag, they place it on their stomach and crab...
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Bowl-a-rama

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice rolling a ball to a target and learn various bowling terms and rules.
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Roam the Halls for Fitness

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use pedometers or digiwalkers to walk as many steps as possible during a class period (in the building hallways). They assess steps walked at the end of the period for prizes and/or goal setting.
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Freeze

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers practice recognizing and getting into proper position when playing defense.
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Photo Pen Pals

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students learn to write a descriptive friendly letter to a pen pal.
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Gargoyles

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners 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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Spiders and Flies

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners participate in a fleeing and chasing game. They can only spread out when they come up with a rhyme.
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Oscar's Garbage Can

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are arranged in a circle with two students inside the circle. They try to clean out Oscar's garbage can while the ones outside the circle try to throw the objects back in.
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Slings

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars take three shots at the designated target using a slingshot. They strive to keep all of the shots close to the target or to improve with each shot; by getting closer each time.
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High Five Lay-ups

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars move about the general space in the gym pretending to dribble and shoot a basketball. Two students are designed as taggers who "Freeze" other players with their hand HIGH in the air. Young scholars who are not frozen must...
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Long Jump Roping Skills

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Studentsare given an introduction to the skills they be learning and at what competency they need to perform to reach their desired performance assessment level.
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Throwing and Catching

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students determine if they can recognize and identify a critical element of throwing or catching in a photograph or picture.
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The Bunny Trail

For Teachers K
Students practice 'delivering' eggs for the Easter Bunny along an obstacle course through which they perform various locomotor skills. They can also practice number and shape matching skills as they navigate the course.
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Through the Quicksand

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students select a partner, who is the travelling expert, and the other group is the rescue expert. Travel expert starts at one end of rectangular area and the rescue expert stands around the sides of the rectangular with a supply of...
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Easter Egg Dribble

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars dribble and trap a ball with their feet using control and different directions and pathways.