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. Get Free Sample Lessons! Explore our K-5 Curriculum with these select Lesson Plans from some of our most popular Units.

Teaching

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. Fun and engaging activities that emphasize movement, ball control, and coordination help students develop foundational skills while keeping them active and engaged.

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

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. Make new friends through movement. 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.,

Physical Education

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. SIGN UP HERE National Standards and Outcomes Focus for Jump Rope Skills Standard 1. Register for FREE today to access all of the modules.

Motor Skills

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.

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. These soft skills help them see classmates and situations through a different lens. Absolutely.

Movement

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

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. Types of Movement Families: 1. Consider parkour! plinth) and narrow (i.e.,

Elementary School

Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

For decades, children have been jumping rope as a form of movement-based fun. This module reinforces basic rope jumping skills and then progresses to include a variety of tricks, challenges, long rope jumping, and cooperative routines.

Middle School

Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

For decades, children have been jumping rope as a form of movement-based fun. This module reinforces basic rope jumping skills and then progresses to include a variety of tricks, challenges, long rope jumping, and cooperative routines.

Middle School

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 if interested, see here ).

Sports

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. Skill-Building & Review. Sportime Adjust-A-Hurdles Set of 3.

PE

SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Develop Skills: Helps students practice and refine motor skills in a controlled, progressive manner. These adaptations are grouped based on their function whether its improving access, guiding movement, or breaking down skills into manageable steps.

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.

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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