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This activity promotes teamwork, sportsmanship, cardio-respiratory endurance and special awareness.
Using Team Jump Rope will teach both basic jumping and coordination skills, along with adding and subtracting. In this activity, students work together to predict how many jumps they can complete as a team per minute. At the end, they add up their totals and determine how close their predictions were.
The game Space Invaders teaches students how to identify and successfully pass a ball to a receiver. For rules, visit www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=5871
The game Basketball Bingo allows students to practice basketball chest and bounce pass skills. Students pair up and each pair is given a basketball and bingo card. Students find tasks cards that correspond with their bingo card. After completing the task, they mark their card and keep going until they get bingo.
The game Catch 100 helps students with catching and throwing skills. Hoops our set on the floor and a different type of ball in each pair of hoops. One student goes to the hoop and throws the ball to the other person and...
Like Frisbee golf, students work together to create holes that represent a state and capital.
To improve left brain right brain cognitive abilities and eye hand coordination, the game of Sport Stacking can be used. This is the popular cup stacking game that now has contest around the country.
To teach disability awareness, a wheelchair obstacle course can be used, requiring the students to negotiate around various items while using a wheelchair.
To work on increasing lung capacity and endurance, along with aquatic skills, the game of Feeding Frenzy can be used. Here the students are sharks. At the bottom of the pool are various weighted objects. The students must swim to the bottom of the pool and retrieve the objects for points.
To increase muscular strength and endurance, fun push ups help make the boring activity of push ups more fun. For ideas, visit www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=16
Computers Are an Underutilized Resource for High School Physical Education Teachers Computers have become an integral part of the high school learning environment, beginning in the early 1990s. They provide a vast variety of resources to help enhance student education through presentation of material in a variety of media and act as an enhancement to teacher lessons. They can sometimes free teachers from routine tasks, allowing them to bring greater depth
Physical Education The importance of a good education cannot be underestimated. Children spend their most formative years attending school full time, and it is vital that the education and experiences received there are sufficient for preparing students for the complete range of life situations that lie ahead of them. Schools focus on the development of academic skills in traditional subjects such as language, mathematics, and the sciences. In fact, schools depend
Physical Education Lesson Plan One of the more overwhelming needs of society today is without a doubt to effectively address and curb the ever-present danger of childhood obesity. Without a doubt, childhood obesity is one of the biggest health concerns of our time, particularly because it leads to a range of other more serious and debilitating health issues. Furthermore, finding a way to address childhood obesity in a successful manner is
Physical Education Curriculum In the Physical Educator journal article "Students' perspective in the design and implementation of the physical education curriculum" (Ha et al.), twenty five secondary schools were chosen to survey the views of both male and female students on the current state of the curriculum in the physical education programs of each high school, each of which implemented a similar physical education program and made use of similar facilities
Physical Education When teachers give students a voice, they are empowered and primed for success. According to Holdsworth (1998), giving students a voice means much more than consulting them and letting them speak. Students need to be made to feel they are valued. They need to feel appreciated and as though they make a difference in the community to which they belong. Three levels have been identified within physical education at which
The leisure and physical fitness importance persists to pressure public school and community park playgrounds today. Companies saw occasions for financial occasions and enormous steel structures or manufactured appliances like see-saws, slides, swings, merry-go-rounds, jungle-gyms and giant steps began to take over play places in city parks and schools. By 1908, a Massachusetts law necessitated all cities of 10,000 people or more to institute public playgrounds. In 1917, cities