Skillastics

APRIL 21, 2025

Lets be honest most after-school and expanded learning programs arent staffed with certified fitness trainers or PE teachers. But heres the truth: you dont have to be a fitness expert to foster active, healthy habits in young learners. Kids need movement. Its more about enthusiasm than expertise.

Physical Activity

Montessori Physical Education

MARCH 2, 2025

Concerning Cosmic Education, the idea that Education is about exploring the whole—understanding the parts—then seeing how it all fits together—resonates deeply with the approach we take in Montessori PE. I’ve found this approach helps students make real-world connections to the material they are studying, and it brings the lessons to life.

Education

PLT4M

JULY 25, 2025

But physical education isn’t one-size-fits-all. Finding a curriculum that fits diverse age ranges, interests, and needs—all in one place—can seem challenging! But meeting standards doesn’t automatically mean students are learning in meaningful or enjoyable ways. PE lesson plans have to balance structure with creativity.

Motor Skills

PLT4M

JANUARY 27, 2025

Platforms like Teachers Pay Teachers offer creative ideas, but most schools dont fund these purchases. A strong lesson plan doesnt just provide fun activities; it connects those activities to broader learning goals, helping students see how what theyre learning now relates to real-world fitness and health.

Elementary

PLT4M

MAY 12, 2025

Invasion games for elementary PE offer more than just excitement and energytheyre a powerful tool for teaching key movement concepts like offensive and defensive positioning, teamwork, spatial awareness, and agility. Use Fakes Use body movements, eye direction, or footwork to trick defenders and gain an advantage. Grades 35: 2.5.3

Elementary

PLT4M

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

As a popular lifetime physical activity, bowling supports a well-rounded approach to physical literacy by improving coordination, balance, and accuracy while reinforcing fundamental movement skills.

Teaching

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. Defense : Deny space during gameplay by cutting off routes and anticipating movement.

Elementary

SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

The week also serves as the kickoff to National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Help ALL Kids Develop Fundamental and Foundational Motor Skills To expand “Motor Skills Monday” beyond National PE & Sport week, think of ways to include activities, games and creative opportunities to increase motor skill ability throughout the year.

Motor Skills

SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

Make new friends through movement. Imagine the fun and excitement you will have playing five different games in five different days, trying to become the ultimate fitness winner. Show off your creativity side: Revise rules from old games and change them to new and different rules to fit the new game. Spoiler alert!

Physical Activity

Elementary P.E. Games

MARCH 2, 2022

The game allows kids to be creative, get exercise, and most importantly have fun! Patrick’s Day game with my younger K-1 students, as it’s always fun to see what movements and dances they come up with. Try to complete all the movement challenges! . The Move and Freeze series is a fun freeze dance activity for kids.

Dance

Open Phys Ed

JANUARY 15, 2024

Created by: Jenna Knapp & Aaron Hart Special Contributions: Deedi Boland Design: Jennifer Truong For thousands of years, children have been jumping rope as a form of movement-based fun. Demonstrates competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns. Analyzes movement situations and applies movement concepts (e.g.,

Motor Skills

Gopher Sport

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Exercises like ‘Jump the Spinner,’ where students learn while having fun with fitness, and ‘The Magic Number Team Activity,’ are a great way to foster inclusivity. Help students to know it is okay to make mistakes and fitness is fun. integrity, compassion, kindness, creativity, cooperation, or even smiling:) 3.

Creativity

PLT4M

AUGUST 25, 2022

Exercise and fitness should not be a one size fits all approach. Modified exercises allow every individual to succeed in fitness. Any type of injury from working out will likely stop a student’s fitness journey in its tracks. PE teacher Adam Hughes reviews with a student how to scale a movement with a PVC pipe.

Exercise

Gopher Sport

JUNE 6, 2023

The Many Benefits of Juggling: As physical education teachers, we are always coming across articles with data on the many benefits of movement, and juggling is no exception! Creativity begins to flow as the skillset (and the brain) grows!!! Scarf Fitness Challenges: Students partner up and take turns performing a fitness activity.

Coordination

The Sporting

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Top 8 Sports for Fitness: Your Full Guide to The Best Sports To Improve Fitness While some people thrive in the structured environment of a gym, not everyone feels like they are cut out for the gym grind. But which sports are actually best for fitness? And there’s nothing wrong with that!

Fitness

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Recent evidence suggests that adding developmentally appropriate cognitive demands to patterned movement stimulates executive function and the precursor skills to reading and math ( Paschen et al., The ability to synchronize movements with rhythm is fundamental to children’s ability to pull to a stand, walk, run, skip, and gallop.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Engaging students in winter-themed activities not only promotes physical fitness but also adds a festive twist to traditional activities. In this blog, we’ve compiled 13 creative and enjoyable winter-themed indoor activity ideas that you can do with your students, turning your gym into a winter wonderland of movement and fun!

PE

Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

That was until it was time for the Presidential Fitness Test. Funny enough, these tests were designed to evaluate students for “ military preparedness” more than evaluating fitness. While the Presidential Fitness Test was removed in 2013, the PACER test became a new method of torture. Then it was the week of doom.

PE

Skillastics

JUNE 23, 2022

Studies have proven that physical movement helps kids improve their memory, increase their motivation, and improve motor skills. Movement and physical activity truly helps kids think and learn differently. Skillastics® has multiple solutions to fit your physical activity program needs. Absolutely. That’s 20 opportunities to win!

Movement

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Francis’s School (STFS) in Western Australia, the Physical Education (PE) program plays a crucial role in helping students rediscover their love for movement and physical activity. Simon and his colleagues work tirelessly to reignite the students’ awareness of the importance of movement for life and vitality. STFS is a C.A.R.E.

Movement

Skillastics

MAY 10, 2022

Here are five easy ways to increase student engagement and movement in your students by 50%. If you capture their attention right away with a creative, engaging activity you’ll keep their interest for the duration. The post Five Ways to Increase Student Movement and Engagement appeared first on Skillastics. party as well.

Movement

Skillastics

AUGUST 22, 2022

No matter what generation you identify with, if you watched TV while you were growing up, you probably had a pretty cool fitness icon to look up to. Whether it was Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 70s, Jane Fonda in the 80s, or Richard Simmons in the 90s, there’s always been someone who made fitness look easy and fun.

Fitness

Physical Education Ideas

MARCH 14, 2024

Promotes Physical Activity: Easter games get students up and moving, promoting physical fitness and active lifestyles. Boosts Creativity and Imagination: The festive nature of Easter games encourages students to use their creativity and imagination. Here's why incorporating these egg-citing activities can benefit students: 1.

Motor Skills

Gopher Sport

AUGUST 28, 2023

According to Carolyn Temertzoglou in her article posted on the Gopher Sport blog, “Non-Traditional Sports in PE” Carolyn references non-traditional games “provide new experiences, opportunities for positive social interaction, and develop movement competence within fun/joyful experiences.” Skills Developed: Forehand/backhand.

Physical Education

Fit and Fun Play

DECEMBER 12, 2023

However, creative minds can keep a classroom fresh and lively simply by transforming the classroom space with a theme. – Written By Dr. Timothy Davis – As we head into winter, I often see teachers dreading the long cold days when children may have minimal opportunities to play outside.

Movement

Gopher Sport

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Monster Mash-Up Fitness Exercises Here are a few Halloween themed fitness exercises you can do with your students! Spider Crawls: Get into a plank position and crawl forward, moving one arm and the opposite leg at the same time, mimicking a spider’s movement.

PE

Gopher Sport

AUGUST 14, 2023

And for an extra twist, encourage creative movement as they flip their way to victory! With equipment for up to 36 players, teamwork and fitness come together in this energetic game. Students race against the clock, flipping discs to reveal their team’s color.

Gyms

Fit and Fun Play

JULY 16, 2024

Discover how before and after school fitness programs can transform your child's energy into a powerhouse of health, happiness and source for academic success!

Creativity

Reinventing the Game

APRIL 14, 2022

What process does Fig 1 best fits; 1) The teacher’s thinking process when approaching a learning design? Without doubt, as experts, we can predict much movement outcomes when it comes to skills, values, etc. Or is it vice versa? 2) Or is it better to consider the opposite flow? And finally, 3) Should it be a cyclical process?

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In my view, we can find more creative and productive ways to encourage positive student behavior without isolating them while their peers enjoy physical activity. While some students are naturally inclined to be active and prefer movement over talking, there are also those who would rather engage in conversation than physical activity.

Physical Activity

PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

While some of the following rules apply to any classroom, these PE specific classroom technology rules support a dynamic subject focused on student activity and movement. Classroom technology rules should outline how and where computers, tablets, or phones should be used in a fitness center, weight room, or gymnasium.

Physical Education

Skillastics

AUGUST 22, 2022

No matter what generation you identify with, if you watched TV while you were growing up, you probably had a pretty cool fitness icon to look up to. Whether it was Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 70s, Jane Fonda in the 80s, or Richard Simmons in the 90s, there’s always been someone who made fitness look easy and fun. Get creative.

Fitness

The Sporting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

With that in mind, I could not fit every player on this list, and I would love to hear who you would add to the list! The short passing and patient movement, as well as maintaining ball possession, has been frustrating and vanquishing opponents ever since- and the organisation has a former chain-smoker from Amsterdam to thank for it!

Creativity

Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

For decades, children have been jumping rope as a form of movement-based fun. Jump rope participation provides students with valuable physical activity experiences that provide a relevant context for a variety of fitness-related lessons.

Middle School

Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

For decades, children have been jumping rope as a form of movement-based fun. Jump rope participation provides students with valuable physical activity experiences that provide a relevant context for a variety of fitness-related lessons.

Middle School

Fit and Fun Play

OCTOBER 10, 2023

If you are looking for a fun and engaging experience for your students, consider a Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach that promotes critical thinking, creativity, AND MOVEMENT!

Creativity

School Yard

JANUARY 23, 2019

Motivating students to develop a life-long love of healthy movement and physical activity is just one of several unique challenges for PE educators. A class period full of agility and skill-building movements can be fun and an adventurous change of pace. Creative Tools for Your PE Obstacle Course.

PE