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

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

At PLT4M, we teach and practice the underhand roll via fun and dynamic bowling activities for elementary PE. Teaching Underhand Roll Via Bowling Lesson Plans For Elementary PE Bowling provides an exciting and engaging way to teach the underhand roll in elementary physical education. Download Now! PreK-2: 1.2.6 PreK-2: 1.2.6

Teaching

Gopher Sport

APRIL 16, 2025

Moreover, gamification offers a creative avenue to disguise skills or activities that students might not naturally favorlike certain fitness exercisesby presenting them as fun, leveled challenges. By doing so, we tap into intrinsic motivation and create a sense of accomplishment, making each lesson not just a class, but an adventure.

Physical Education

Montessori Physical Education

APRIL 6, 2025

This idea is rooted in the Cosmic Education principle, which teaches students to explore ideas from “whole to part to whole.” The higher functional brain development seen in Montessori students could stem from how Montessori encourages children to view concepts holistically.

Physical Education

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

Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

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. What I do: I’m one of the physical education teachers at Faith Mather Sossaman Elementary School, currently in my 18th year teaching in Arizona.

Education

Stanford Childrens

MARCH 3, 2025

Regardless, teach kids to keep the volume level at no higher than half. This benefits a childs hearing and also encourages creativity, imagination, learning, physical activity, and more. The same goes for noisy events such as concerts: Try to step outside every hour for a quick break. – Provide plenty of device-free time.

Academics

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Teaching students to use technology as a tool is essential in preparing them for success in today’s digital world. By integrating purposeful technology use into the classroom, students can learn how to harness it for learning, problem-solving, creativity, and collaboration.

High School

Gopher Sport

JUNE 27, 2025

teaches Physical Education in a very small school called The Builders School. He teaches two PE classes, one for Grades 1 to 3 (11 Students) and one for Grades 4 to 6 (9 Students). He teaches two PE classes, one for Grades 1 to 3 (11 Students) and one for Grades 4 to 6 (9 Students). Just 20 students! Yoga and Dodgeball?

PE Teacher

PLT4M

JANUARY 27, 2025

Some focus heavily on teaching individual skillslike dribbling or jumpingbut lack engaging, fun activity ideas. Others offer exciting games but fail to connect those activities to broader goals, such as physical literacy or teaching foundational skills. Another significant challenge is the cost of high-quality resources.

Elementary

Gopher Sport

MAY 1, 2025

At the International School of Creative Science in the UAE, PE teacher Maryrose Camara is bringing all of this to life in a dynamic, culturally rich program thats engaging students in ways that go far beyond the gym. Challenges of Teaching PE in an International School Teaching in a multicultural environment comes with its challenges.

PE

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. Each lesson includes a one page lesson overview, equipment checklist, game setup, teaching cues, standard alignment and more!

Elementary

PLT4M

JULY 25, 2025

PE lesson plans have to balance structure with creativity. In math, you might teach addition, then multiplication, then algebra. Whether you teach elementary, middle, or high school, PLT4M offers a curriculum that adapts to your students’ needs—and helps them grow. Unlike subjects such as math or science, PE isn’t always linear.

Motor Skills

PLT4M

MAY 9, 2025

But in physical education, there are countless fun and creative variations of tag that can keep the activity fresh, engaging, and educational for elementary students. Each lesson includes a one page lesson overview, equipment checklist, game setup, teaching cues, standard alignment and more! Download Now! Download Now!

Elementary

PLT4M

JANUARY 29, 2025

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. Teaching these skills with clear, simple cues helps students build coordination, accuracy, and confidence.

Elementary

Montessori Physical Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

I believe deeply in the Montessori method, so much so that I wanted to integrate it into teaching physical education. The dilemma I’ve faced is balancing two things that feel equally important to me: ensuring everyone has access to these lessons and receiving fair compensation for the time, effort, and creativity I put into them.

Physical Education

Skillastics

APRIL 21, 2025

Whether its cooperative games, team challenges, or creative movement exercises, the options are endless and adaptable to any environment. Team-teaching an activity or rotating roles between observers and facilitators gives everyone a chance to learn by example.

Physical Activity

PLT4M

JANUARY 31, 2025

By incorporating creative and developmentally appropriate challenges, basketball can remain an exciting and accessible part of the elementary PE curriculum. Teaching Cues For Basketball Dribbling Games For Elementary PE Within a basketball unit, one of the essential skills to teach and develop is dribbling.

Elementary

SHAPE America

AUGUST 4, 2022

And, although teaching PE without a gym is not ideal, it is possible. At times it was a challenge, but the experience proved to be great for my mental health, creativity, and growth as a teacher. Here are some of my favorite tips for teaching physical education without a gym. Have a Growth Mindset and Set Expectations.

Gyms

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

As a health and physical education teacher, I teach kindness as part of my curriculum. Teaching Kindness Makes a Difference in School Culture For the last three years, we have used the health. I was teaching my students tools for their toolbox to manage their emotions in their everyday lives. The impact of health. minds event.,

Schooling

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Get creative and use your connections! Teachers come up with so many creative and inspiring ideas! has a passion for teaching health and physical education. Health Literacy Month is also a great time to invite in partners from local organizations to speak about specific topics. Be sure to check them out!

Health

SHAPE America

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As health educators, it is important to teach our students to be health literate. By using best practices in health education, specifically a skills-based health approach, health educators teach and assess health literacy skills that students will use throughout the rest of their lives.

Middle School

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. Be creative and include them in games and movement challenges.

Motor Skills

SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

Never underestimate your ability to create and teach new games and activities. Encourage them to teach you the rules and skills of the games. Show off your creativity side: Revise rules from old games and change them to new and different rules to fit the new game. Introduce new games that are easy to learn, but fun to play.

Physical Activity

Relentless School Nurse

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As we embark on 2024, the selection of a guiding word can provide clarity, inspiration, and a sense of purpose, empowering you to embrace the year ahead with focus and intention. 100 Word of the Year Ideas: Abundance Adventure Align Authentic Available Aware Balance Become Better Bless Bold Breathe Bright Calm Celebrate Centered Challenge Change (..)

Schooling

FACTS Management

APRIL 10, 2024

Teaching is a rewarding yet demanding profession. Creative Expression Engage in creative activities outside of the classroom to channel stress and express yourself. Creating something with your hands can be therapeutic and offer a welcome break from the demands of teaching.

Creativity

FACTS Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Here are a few creative ideas to try: Don’t underestimate the power of words. Take lots of photos of them teaching, interacting with students, or helping your community and post them. Showing teacher appreciation requires creativity, sincerity, and a personal touch. Don’t forget about student teachers at your school.

Creativity

Learning Through Sport

JULY 13, 2021

There are many versions of game-based approache s to sport teaching and coaching. However, it is more accurate to think of a GBA as a range of teaching styles or a “toolkit” of styles. We show a GBA can be many teaching styles to players, which invokes the metaphor of the GBA as a pedagogical toolkit.

Teaching

Aspire-Ed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Steph Donovan is a dance specialist and has been teaching dance for as long as she can remember. But she’s also a primary school teacher and understands the time pressures that come with planning, researching and resourcing an engaging creative curriculum for your pupils. Steph’s workshop is a chance to change that.

Dance

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 26, 2023

Activities in physical education often teach children important classroom skills including following instructions, making decisions, problem-solving, teamwork, and self-regulation. Using rhythmic patterns to teach math concepts or language skills not only makes learning more engaging, but it also makes learning more effective.

Physical Education

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

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

Physical Education Ideas

APRIL 17, 2020

There is so much creativity and wonderful teachers doing wonderful things in the Physical Education space. That is OK, but if you are ever going to get creative, now is the time to do it. As mentioned, I created a Youtube video where I was teaching the fundamental skills of how to run. A scary thought. This is my journey.

Teaching

Reinventing the Game

APRIL 14, 2022

In approaching a teaching scenario, the above diagram, Fig 1 , seems to suggest a possible start with Learner Outcome consideration before moving on to decide our intervention strategy, Teacher Input. We add to this challenge by also wanting to be very specific with our teaching outcomes, e.g. values, affective, skills , etc.

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. A multi-skills teaching bag can also be a great resource, offering a range of tools to keep pupils engaged and ready to go as and when needed.

Primary School