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Physical Ed.: Sports and Activities
- Fun and Unique Sports
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Physical Education Games Lesson Plans
- Adapted Baseball Skills - Students will be able to perform each of the skills being taught when playing the sport of baseball at a beginner level.
- Badminton 4-Square - The purpose of this game is communication in a badminton modified game situation.
- Basketball for Par - Intergrating two sports in to one fun game.
- Bean Bag Challenge- After listening to directions and modeling from the teacher, the students will move around five stations. They will complete the directions in each station before moving on to the next.
- Bench Ball - Students will lean to play Squirrels and Hawks.
- Box Ball - Four square is played with a rubber playground ball. During regular play, the ball may be hit with any part of a player's hands from wrist to fingertip.
- Buggy Rides- "To help Pre-K children learn to work together and use appropriate social skills."
- California Kickball - Today lesson will work on students hand eye coordination, basketball shooting skills, and jump roping quickness. Increase heart rate by walking and running the gym.
- Cooperative Hoops- "To have students understand the concept of inclusion and that everyone belongs no matter the situation."
- Ditto - A Cooperative Game- "To develop cooperation skills."
- Doubles Table Tennis - Teamwork and learning different paddle strokes.
- E.T. Phone Home- "Students must come up with a communication plan and implement it to complete the challenge. "
- Flag Football 6 on 6 - Students will learn the skills to play a proper game of flag football while demonstrating sportsmanship and teamwork.
- Foam Ball Passover- To encourage students to work together to accomplish a common goal.""
- Frogs and Ants- "This game is a cooperative game in which students have to help their fellow classmate in order for the game to continue. "
- Frostbite Invitational Round Robin - Pickleball is a simple paddle game, playing over a special perforated slow-moving ball over a tennis type net, on a badminton-sized court.
- Giant Puzzles- "To evaluate students ability to cooperate and learn together. "
- Holiday Game - Thanksgiving activity for physical education grades K-2.
- Hot Shot Basketball - Have the most points before the time runs out and make sure that the 2 best teams square off in the end.
- Intoduction to Football - To have a full understanding of the game of football.
- Introduction to Volleyball - Fundamentals of Forearm pass.
- Invent A Game- "To have students work cooperatively with each other. "
- Jump Rope Relay - Students will be able to individually perform non-locomotor stretches with and without a jump rope.
- Loop Da Hoop- "To have students practice cooperation skills as a group while working on a task "
- Matball - After completing this lesson, the students will: *Demonstrate kicking, throwing, catching,running, and dodging skills.
- Memory Ball - Students will be engaging in tasks of manipulation and stability which involves giving and receiving force from objects (throwing and catching) while the body remains in place.
- Mine Field- To have students experience the loss of their sight and to develop feelings for those less fortunate than them.
- Parachute Activities - TLW demonstrate movement control to purposely move in different ways in a large group without bumping into others and/or falling down.
- People Puzzles- "For students to practice using proper communication and cooperation skills."
- Power Volleyball - Students will gain a better understanding of Power Volleyball and the skills required.
- Radioactive River- "To work together as a team, show positive sports-personship and figure out solutions to the problems presented."
- Scootermania- "To help children understand how to work cooperatively with a partner. "
- Secret Handshake- "To give students an opportunity to cooperate with each other in a physical activity setting. "
- Sideline Soccer - Students will learn the basics of soccer by beginning with sideline soccer. Sideline soccer also allows more student involvement.
- Simple Football - How to play flag football.
- Slalom Blindfold- "Use positive interactions to plan and guide teammates "
- Sneak Attack- "To encourage cooperation and use of offensive and defensive strategies. "
- The Bus- "To help students cooperate when completing physical challenges. "
- The Rules of Flag Football - Students will learn how to work together to accomplish a goal, while using sportmanship.
- Titanic Challenge- "To foster positive cooperative/communication skills and strategy development. "
- Triangle Tag- "To have students work together and practice their chasing, fleeing, and dodging skills. Suggested Grade Level "
- Twisted Sisters Disco Inferno- "To have students work together to solve a problem. "
- Two-Hand Touch Football (GYM) - Students will learn the correct skills needed to play football.
- Ultimate Frisbee - The game of ultimate frisbee will be played on a regular gym floor using your basketball out of bounds lines on the end as your touchdown line.
- VOLLEYBALL ACTIVITY - Create a game which the student and compete against one another.
- Volleyball and Modified Volleyball - The goal of this topic is to introduce the game of Volleyball to all students.
- Volleybomb - Students will serve the volleyball correctly without a line fault and get it over the net to their desired target.