PLT4M

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

At PLT4M, we teach and practice the underhand roll via fun and dynamic bowling activities for elementary PE. 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. PreK-2: 1.2.6 PreK-2: 1.2.9

Teaching

PLT4M

AUGUST 1, 2025

And as more students experience success in a fitness walking class, they gain confidence to stay active beyond school as well. Beyond heart health, walking also boosts mood and mental well-being. With a dedicated fitness walking class program, PLT4M helps schools turn walking into a purposeful and well-rounded fitness elective.

Fitness

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

Elementary

PLT4M

JANUARY 29, 2025

These games also promote teamwork, communication, and decision-making, making them a valuable part of any PE curriculum. Creative Throwing And Catching Games For Elementary PE One of the best things about throwing and catching games in elementary PE is that they can be played with simple, readily available equipment.

Elementary

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.

Elementary

Skillastics

APRIL 21, 2025

Lets be honest most after-school and expanded learning programs arent staffed with certified fitness trainers or PE teachers. Whether its cooperative games, team challenges, or creative movement exercises, the options are endless and adaptable to any environment.

Physical Activity

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. These games also promote teamwork, communication, and decision-making, making them a valuable part of any PE curriculum.

Elementary

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

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 12, 2023

such as teamwork, gratitude, kindness, wellness, and mindfulness. KYSHAPE provides daily slides with prompts, as well as activities and social media posts for each daily theme that administrators, health and physical educators, and other classroom teachers can use. minds event., but all year. She is the KYSHAPE health.

Schooling

Physical Education Ideas

MARCH 27, 2024

Whether it's "Summer Olympics” or "Water Based," a theme sparks creativity and enthusiasm among students and staff alike. Schedule a meeting with participating teachers to discuss their assigned roles, clarify expectations, and address any questions or concerns. If you can get the volunteers to this meeting, that is helpful as well.

PE Teacher

Gopher Sport

AUGUST 16, 2024

Watch hundreds of PE teachers Hula hooping (some for of the first time) at TAHPERD! Chula Hoops Curriculum: Unit One What are teachers saying about ChulaHoops? BEST hula hoops on the market – from 30 year PE teacher! MOST kindergarteners get it as well, even though they seem large for them.

PE Teacher

Reinventing the Game

APRIL 14, 2022

It is a combination of work stress, doubts about alignment of what I want with what it should it be like to be a Physical Education (PE) teacher, fatigue, etc. came after a discussion with a fellow teacher in the all-consuming discussion of what PE is and what it should look like.

Physical Education

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Christi highlights three key places to build out your team: Colleagues Administration Community Partner “Whether you have a team of PE teachers of 1 or 10, you need to get creative with who is on your team. ” Slide from Funding Your PE Program webinar. Slide from Funding Your PE Program webinar.

Physical Education

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 30, 2021

Developments in curriculum frameworks around the world have formalised a rationale for critical thinking, problem solving and creativity in PE as elements in both curriculum design and in the wording of student achievement standards. Critical thinking can be learned.

Convergent Discovery

Gopher Sport

AUGUST 28, 2024

It’s a sport that offers tremendous benefits to students well beyond the court. We are PE teachers. We know how to be creative! PE teachers who introduce tennis in their classes have a unique opportunity to inspire a lifelong passion for the sport. Why should YOU offer tennis to YOUR students?

Schooling

Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

We are still utilizing SEL and team-building concepts in the PE. We are still teaching the students about health and wellness. I believe many of the Illinois state standards for PE would be better met by integrating the classroom curriculum. I’m not saying that Montessori teachers are not physically fit or healthy.

PE

Arizona Health and Physical Education

MAY 9, 2023

The K-8 Elementary Physical Education Workshop (EPEW) is designed for classroom teachers, physical education specialists and school administrators who are interested in learning and/or sharing lesson ideas for teaching physical education at the K-8 level. Many of our presenters have reputations as experts in the field of Physical Education.

Physical Education

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. And remember, if you took over this position from a retiring teacher, they may have left a wealth of pre-marked books and resources!

PE

The PE Hub

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Rainy days also often affect your lessons, especially when it comes to outdoor activities like PE. However, with some creativity and flexibility, you can still give the children high-quality PE, even with limited space. OAA (Outdoor and Adventurous Activities) is an activity that can work well in a classroom setting.

Primary School

PLT4M

JULY 19, 2023

And while tips and tricks are helpful , PE teachers need actionable plans and strategies for the classroom. First, physical education classes often have the biggest class rosters, with upwards of 50 students per section. To start, physical education teachers can define their overarching goal for students. And that is okay.

Physical Education

Physical Education Ideas

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Regardless of where you are up to, I hope you are doing well. As someone who has taught health as well and passionate about the mental aspect as much as the physical aspect, do yourself a favour and don’t ignore your underlying feelings at this time… and feel comfort in knowing there are teachers and people everywhere feeling the same way.

PE Teacher

PLT4M

JULY 15, 2022

We celebrated the ingenuity of physical education teachers and students to find creative ways to workout at home. We did so, because we knew that exercise’s mental and physical benefits were essential for students’ well-being while living through a pandemic. But we need to have PE teachers backs!

Physical Activity

The Physical Educator

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

These are tools that I’ve developed throughout my teaching career as well as some that I’m currently exploring with fellow #PhysEdU community members. If you’d like to try this activity out with your students, I recreated the tracking sheets that the teacher uses in the video. You can access those here.

Dance

Gopher Sport

MARCH 22, 2022

What does that mean for PE teachers? A non-competitive field day is a day filled with fun, creative activities that are planned with all ages in mind. Activities need to be planned well in advance. Planning a Non-Competitive Field Day! Spring is here! FIELD DAY is happening soon! You can feel the buzz in the air.

Schooling

PLT4M

JUNE 5, 2023

Instead, student choice in physical education can allow students to pick from different fitness modalities that will still achieve the common goal of health and well-being. In many physical education classrooms, teachers allow students to pick and choose what workout they want to do during a given class period.

Physical Education

Active Schools Us

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

An encouraging PE teacher and a school that invests in PE can make all the difference. As the parent of a first grader who has been going to school virtually since March 2020 and a 4-year-old who tags along for some of the lessons, I was naïve to how critical PE is to a child’s ability to learn until this past year.

PE

SHAPE America

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Reading books or poems, studying paintings, or listening to music related to death can provide a more indirect and creative way to engage with the topic. She thrives on writing curriculum and has developed eight different courses in high school health and physical education, as well as online physical education.

Health Education

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Imagine trying to design a PE program that engages over 1,800 students, ages 3-18, from more than 60 nationalities, all while adapting to different skill levels, cultural backgrounds, and languages! A Comprehensive PE Program Megan shared an overview of the current PE program at NIST. The school runs on a 10-day schedule.

PE

Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 30, 2021

The tactics and specific strategies developed in response to game “questions” or “problems” learnt in one game/sport can be applied in another game/sport in the same category, so the PE teacher should deliberately scaffold for this transfer to occur.

Coaching

PLT4M

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In this article, well explore various types of PE games for elementary, from tag games to team sports. Additionally, well dive into equipment best practices and highlight key items that can support a wide range of games. 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!

PE

PLT4M

APRIL 29, 2025

Teachers and schools can also access special discounts and opportunities via the Spikeball PE Teacher Portal. Go To Spikeball PE Shop for school discounts! The Lifelong Game of Roundnet Roundnet is a dynamic, engaging game that students can play well beyond their school years.

Flexibility