Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Heather teaches hundreds of students each week, navigating her own physical challenges while showing her students the importance of resilience, self-acceptance, and overcoming adversity. If there’s something I can’t do physically, I don’t let it stop my teaching.” Heather’s teaching is a testament to her resourcefulness and dedication.

PE Teacher

Gopher Sport

JANUARY 15, 2025

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. Heres how Boardball can be adapted for younger students, why its a great fit for PE, and what educators are saying about it.

Fitness

PLT4M

MAY 9, 2025

Tag games for elementary PE are more than just fun ways to get students movingthey help young learners build essential skills like offensive and defensive movement, evasion tactics, change of direction, and spatial awareness. Explore our K-5 Curriculum with these select Lesson Plans from some of our most popular Units. Download Now!

Elementary

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.

Education

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. Teaching Cues For Throwing Skills & Catching Skills Proper technique is essential for developing strong throwing and catching skills in elementary PE.

Elementary

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.

Elementary

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. Strategies for coaches to reclaim play in sports: Incorporate games that develop fundamental skills but remain fun and creative.

Sports

PLT4M

JULY 25, 2025

PE lesson plans have to balance structure with creativity. In math, you might teach addition, then multiplication, then algebra. In PE, schools often patch together different programs for elementary, middle, and high school—if they have curriculum resources at all. Unlike subjects such as math or science, PE isn’t always linear.

Motor Skills

SHAPE America

MARCH 21, 2023

Because I still want my students to get outside for fresh air and some natural vitamin D, I’ve gotten creative with one of my favorite units, which focuses on a standards-based approach with teaching opportunities in social and emotional learning. This is one of the students’ favorite PE activities every year!

Elementary

Carly's P.E. Games

JUNE 8, 2019

It's fun to be creative while teaching elementary P.E. Not only are they used for tumbling and gymnastics skills, but also for games involving throwing and catching skills. Mats can be used as "walls", "ships", "houses", and much more! The students were so excited the first time they walked into the gym and saw the mats set up.

Gyms

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.

Physical Education

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! Creativity begins to flow as the skillset (and the brain) grows!!! curriculum that teaches better breathing with scarves.

Coordination

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 21, 2022

As an elementary physical education teacher, I have used a variety of anticipatory sets to introduce new activities, skills, or concepts – including video demonstrations and highlight clips, pictures, or group discussions to “hook” the interest of students. Using the Wrong Equipment. This method is sure to spark discussion and laughs!

Elementary

Montessori Physical Education

JULY 30, 2023

To help alleviate some of the new school year anxiety and replace it with excitement, I have three free lessons and a video to get your creative juices flowing. Cardiovascular System Kickball is the ultimate game for you if you are teaching human body systems! Finally, here is a fan-favorite lesson that teaches about food webs.

Schooling

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!

Dance

Montessori Physical Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Since players may perform actions that the game designer did not expect, the game’s writers must find creative ways to impose a storyline on the player without interfering with their freedom.” ” — Wikipedia Some of the most popular board and video games ever created are classified as open-world.

PE

Arizona Health and Physical Education

MAY 9, 2023

There are a plethora of great opportunities out there to expand your teaching knowledge with conferences, workshops, and online courses. EPEW is dedicated to providing an outlet to all creative and inspirational teachers who wish to share their craft with anyone willing to grow as an educator. Below is just a sample.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

AUGUST 1, 2024

No matter how creative our lessons are, it is our starting routine that we hear more positive feedback from! While this all may seem like common sense and fairly simple, we hear this feedback from parents more than anything else.

Elementary

Open Phys Ed

JULY 28, 2021

Elementary (K-5) Start The Year Here. Still Teaching Remotely? Still Teaching Remotely? Creative Mode Fitness. Still Teaching Remotely? We’ve expanded our OPEN Power Discount program to include massive discounts on hundreds of products that you use every day. The Fun Routine (K-2). Yoga & Mindfulness.

Schooling

Gopher Sport

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The goal of parkour is to overcome various obstacles in an efficient and creative way by jumping, swinging, climbing, and running. Parkour can contribute to meeting the SHAPE America’s National Standards and Grade-level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education in elementary schools. Consider parkour! springboard) or vertical (i.e.,

Elementary School

Mindful PE

JULY 23, 2021

One of the biggest changes I experienced moving from a classroom teacher position to the PE teacher position was figuring out what to teach and when for all grades, K-5, for the entire year. It felt so overwhelming! Your School District One of the first places to go for Scope and Sequencing resources is your school district.

PE

School Yard

JANUARY 7, 2022

Several years ago, I was teaching at a new elementary school and wanted to get my community involved in family fitness events to promote exercising while having fun. The key to pit stops is to make them fun, creative, and give students the ability to catch their breath and offer variety. – 8:50 a.m. Mike Smith.

Fitness

Montessori Physical Education

MAY 15, 2022

It is called The War of Art : Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, by Steven Pressfield. The book discusses the importance of the muse during the creative process. The muse is the creative energy that inspires one to make something seemingly out of thin air. One must do the work everyday.

Creativity

FACTS Management

MAY 18, 2023

From elementary schools to college campuses, today’s students need education leaders who are invested in their emotional safety. Teach stress reduction strategies Students’ stress is typically related to everyday experiences, concerns, and challenges at school, in the home, and within their peer group.

Health

Skillastics

MARCH 10, 2022

An elementary school teacher by trade, he quickly became a sport stacking enthusiast, and began sharing the sport with others. Over twenty years ago, Speed Stacks® founder Bob Fox watched Sport Stacking for the first time on a late night tv show. 30-Day Digital Speciality Programming - leave it to the experts!

Physical Activity

SHAPE America

DECEMBER 12, 2023

When we teach students about death in health education, we can help them understand life, empathy, and resilience. Here are five tips on how to teach students about death in the health education classroom (or any classroom). Here are five tips on how to teach students about death in the health education classroom (or any classroom).

Health Education

Stanford Childrens

MARCH 25, 2024

One boy was a teenager in high school, the other a child in early elementary school. At some hospitals, including Packard Children’s, they are part of the Child Life and Creative Arts team, which works in many different ways to help kids feel like kids while they’re hospitalized.

Schooling

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 16, 2024

With a background in sports from her childhood in Liverpool, England and experience teaching internationally, Megan brings a unique passion and energy to her role at NIST. We have a team of 11 PE teachers and 7 Thai PE Academic Assistants who co-teach with us. Our class size is capped at 24 students, with 6 classes per year level.

PE

PE with Palos

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Teacher at Salt Creek Elementary, VP of Children for IAHPERD. Students creativity really comes out and each group has to share their ideas and how they got to them. teaching more fun. By: Bo Phillips – P.E. I’m sure we’ve all had students enter our gym saying“ can we play…?”.

Exercise

Montessori Physical Education

APRIL 23, 2022

When my lower elementary classes began studying Oceania, I saw this as a perfect time to look more into the traditional games of Australia. Even though I was supposed to teach about all of Oceania, I spent almost two months on Aboriginal games alone! Creative Minds. I found so much more than I thought I would! Tonkinson, R.,

Creativity

Spark PE

JANUARY 14, 2022

It was encouraging that people quickly developed creative approaches to stay active and help their children continue activities. Physical education should teach through physical activity, and there are several evidence-based programs available, including SPARK. SPARK has the “Active Classroom” program.

Physical Activity

PLT4M

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

PE games for elementary students promote and enhance physical activity while helping students develop important motor skills, teamwork, physical literacy, and more. Whether you’re introducing classic games or trying something new with elementary students, incorporating a variety of activities keeps them excited and active.

Elementary

Gopher Sport

MAY 23, 2025

Meet Dean Terry, a dedicated physical education (PE) teacher at Koror Elementary School, working under the Palau Ministry of Education. With years of experience and a passion for helping young people grow, Deans approach to teaching PE is both creative and deeply rooted in respect for local culture.

Elementary

PLT4M

MAY 15, 2025

In this article, well explore how floor hockey games for elementary PE align with SHAPE standards, preview a variety of exciting game options with activity descriptions, and share a sample floor hockey PE lesson plan lesson from PLT4Ms K-5 program to help bring these essential skills to life in your classroom. Get Free Sample Lessons!

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