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. Beyond motor skill development, these games also support other standards like Standard 3 (Developing social skills through movement).

Elementary

PLT4M

MAY 12, 2025

While invasion games are often associated with traditional team sports like soccer, basketball, football, ultimate frisbee, and hockey, they can also be adapted in creative and age-appropriate ways for students at all grade levels. These include: PreK2: 1.2.8 Demonstrates catching in a variety of non-dynamic practice tasks.

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. By incorporating creative and developmentally appropriate challenges, basketball can remain an exciting and accessible part of the elementary PE curriculum.

Elementary

SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

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. Include foundational skills (e.g.,

Motor Skills

S&S

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Engaging in creative projects helps children build essential fine motor skills, which are crucial for tasks like writing, buttoning clothes, and … Read More The post Crafting with Kids: Top Crafts for Developing Fine Motor Skills appeared first on S&S Blog.

Motor Skills

SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

Going outside to be physically active helps increase a person’s mood, their fine motor skills, social skills, and personal wel-being. 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

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Due to a variety of factors including less opportunity for physical activity throughout the day, more seated classroom time, and fewer foundational motor experiences (swinging, climbing trees, jumping rope, building forts, and kicking the can in the alley), children’s fundamental motor skills are on the decline ( Brian et al.,

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Physical Education Ideas

MARCH 14, 2024

Enhances Motor Skills: From balancing eggs on spoons to hopping in bunny poses, Easter games help develop gross motor skills, balance, hand-eye coordination, and spatial awareness. Boosts Creativity and Imagination: The festive nature of Easter games encourages students to use their creativity and imagination.

Motor Skills

Open Phys Ed

JANUARY 15, 2024

SIGN UP HERE National Standards and Outcomes Focus for Jump Rope Skills Standard 1. Demonstrates competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns. Register for FREE today to access all of the modules. Outcome [E4.3&5].

Motor Skills

Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Obviously, we would like them all to go up, but medical restrictions challenge us to be more creative. Josh is in a chair and has lost his ability to stand and some motor functions such as lifting with his arms and core strength. This in itself is a skill. We begin with traversing the wall. From there it is time to go up.

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Montessori Physical Education

MARCH 26, 2023

With enough manipulation, a new tool was invented to unleash creativity and possibility. These inventions would require dexterity and fine motor control, which separates humans from other grasping animals. From a solely concrete perspective, they are using sports balls to work on different gross motor skills.

Motor Skills

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Due to a variety of factors including less opportunity for physical activity throughout the day, more seated classroom time, and fewer foundational motor experiences (swinging, climbing trees, jumping rope, building forts, and kicking the can in the alley), children’s fundamental motor skills are on the decline ( Brian et al.,

Physical Education

The PE Hub

OCTOBER 14, 2024

However, with some creativity and flexibility, you can still give the children high-quality PE, even with limited space. Foster Creativity and Imagination Wet weather lessons provide an excellent opportunity for children to express their creativity through imaginative play.

Primary School

Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It has been known to improve health-related and skill-related fitness components, as well as helping to establish foot work and motor skills that can serve individuals in many other sports or activities.

Middle School

Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It has been known to improve health-related and skill-related fitness components, as well as helping to establish foot work and motor skills that can serve individuals in many other sports or activities.

Middle School

Skillastics

JUNE 23, 2022

Studies have proven that physical movement helps kids improve their memory, increase their motivation, and improve motor skills. As kids are developing interpersonal skills, learning social inclusion, teamwork, and motivation, they can use these not just in the classroom, but at home, and later in their academic careers.

Movement

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 13, 2021

Sport is an applied, practised and situated set of skills; 2.Sport Sport creates embodied meaning, and meaning that can be communicated, interpreted, understood, imaged and used creatively ; 3.Sport Four distinct understandings of knowledge are considered in this definition of sport literacy: 1.Sport

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School Yard

JANUARY 23, 2019

Skill-Building & Review. Obstacle courses are a particularly excellent opportunity to have students continue to build and review motor skills they’ve been working on in class. Creative Tools for Your PE Obstacle Course. Be sure to go over each of the different obstacles and how students should use the equipment.

PE

Physical Education Ideas

MAY 11, 2019

Through games, students learn different, important skills. There are countless and immeasurable skills that students can develop through game playing. Just to name a few: critical thinking skills, creativity, teamwork, and good sportsmanship. I love watching creativity flow through active game sessions.

Motor Skills

Gopher Sport

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Looking for a challenging content domain to motivate children to learn a broad range of motor skills? The goal of parkour is to overcome various obstacles in an efficient and creative way by jumping, swinging, climbing, and running. Consider parkour! Research has shown that children love parkour!

Elementary School

SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Develop Skills: Helps students practice and refine motor skills in a controlled, progressive manner. It enhances participation by reducing frustration and helps refine motor skills through repeated, structured practice. Reduce Frustration: Adapted equipment removes barriers, keeping students engaged and motivated.

Motor Skills

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. Tag Games Classic and creative variations that get students running, dodging, and reacting. Math manipulative cubes Students stack cubes to track scores visually.

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. Download Now! Grades 35: 1.5.11

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