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Minions Yoga Freeze Dance!

ELEMENTARY P.E. GAMES

Minions Yoga Freeze Dance has arrived! It’s the perfect brain break and dancing game for kids! Get ready to dance and party along with your favorite minions. Minions Freeze Dance! The post Minions Yoga Freeze Dance! Overview.

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Earth Day Freeze Dance!

ELEMENTARY P.E. GAMES

Earth Day freeze dance has arrived, and it’s the perfect brain break and movement game to gets your kids active! What better way to celebrate earth day then with a fun freeze dance game! Earth Day Freeze Dance! The post Earth Day Freeze Dance! Overview.

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Dance Walking – The Latest Fitness Craze

Physical Education Update

OK, maybe not a “craze,” but this workout combines walking and dancing and can be done by people of all ages and fitness levels. Watch the later segments and you’ll see how group dance walking looks. Dance physical education walking

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Evolution of Dance – Fun Moves for Your PE Class

Physical Education Update

Are you looking for some dance moves to teach your class…or just something for the dance floor at your niece’s wedding? Check out this funny video as it tracks 5 decades of popular dance moves from the 50’s to the end of the 20th century.

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Back To School Games For Kids – Freeze Dance!

ELEMENTARY P.E. GAMES

If you’re looking for fun back to school games for kids, then I highly recommend my newest brain break activity – Freeze Dance – Back To School Edition! Minions Yoga Freeze Dance! Back To School Freeze Dance! Overview.

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Ellen’s Dance Dare Shows the Value of Chasing Your Dreams

Physical Education Update

This topic might seem like a bit of a stretch for a physical education blog, but, well…it does involve a varsity runner, dancing and goal-setting. But, in January 2012, Ellen announced an official dance video contest to win an appearance on her show.

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‘Five Ways of Wellbeing’ through Dance

PE Scholar

Implementing the ‘Five Ways of Well-being’ through Dance. This blog is packed with great ideas to support student well-being through dance. Insight

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Teaching Rhythm and Dance In Physical Education

The Physical Educator

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. Despite it not being a part of every family’s traditions, dance is a part of our collective human experience.

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Soccer Dribbling to LA RASPA (Mexican Hat Dance)

Keeping Kids in Motion

Students all over the world love fútbol or soccer as it’s called in the United States. In PE class, the soccer skills unit is an annual favorite. Each lesson focuses on a variety of skills ranging from ball handling, passing, punting, kicking for power.

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Movement Composition: More Than Just Dance

i-phys-ed

Back in August 2013 I blogged about Enhancing Dance in your #PhysEd Program. The blog post provided a few simple suggestions to encourage teachers to think critically about how they could improve the way that dance was being delivered in their physical education programs.If

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National Dance Society Fall Mini-Conference – Invitation to Register

Arizona Health and Physical Education

Please share the information with other colleagues in the physical education, recreation, health, as well as the dance field. PLEASE REGISTER for our Autumn virtual program , Broadening Dance Education (BDE) , Saturday, October 29!

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Dance Unit 2019

Carly's P.E. Games

I want to share some videos of the Dance Unit the Music teacher and I taught to our students. We have a tradition of combining our classes to teach a dance unit together the week before spring break. We always have fun, and the students learn a large variety of dances!

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How to do the Cupid Shuffle: A Fun Line Dance for PE Class

The PE Specialist

Dancing is a fun and easy way for students to get their body moving and active for a lifetime. The Cupid Shuffle is a classic dance we love to teach our students every year. What’s Up Everyone!

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Developing Physical Literacy through Dance

i-phys-ed

I had heard about it so much through Twitter and the online #PhysEd community, and when I moved to Canada and began my role as PHE Department Head at Meadowridge School, I knew that I needed to get the program … Developing Physical Literacy through Dance Read More ».

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Bodily Learning Through Creating Dance: Student Teachers’ Experiences From Norwegian Physical Education Teacher Education

PE Scholar

This article shows how 13 Norwegian student teachers experienced the creation of dance as part of their PETE

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Do You Know How to Do the Parenting Dance?

RC Families

Actually, parenting can be likened to a dance that has three basic steps: The leading step where the parent is. Parenting is not like math or science where black is black and white is white.

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New Year’s Would You Rather Brain Break! ?

ELEMENTARY P.E. GAMES

Overview. What better way to celebrate the New Year than with a fun would you rather brain break! Unfortunately, Christmas break has come to an end. If you’re looking for a fun back to school brain break or games for kids, then you’ve come to the right place!

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P.E. Challenge - Balls or Balloons, Exercise or Dance, Super 7

Carly's P.E. Games

Follow along with one of these videos: Super Mario Dance Video Would You Rather Exercise Video Balls or Balloons-What kind of sports balls do you have at home?

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You Don’t Need Innovative Equipment to Be Creative in Physical Education

Physical Education Update

While innovative equipment can make classes more fun – and I wouldn’t advise your students to try these moves – here’s an amazing example of an incredible gymnastics-dance-tumbling-agility routine performed using nothing but a partner and some benches.

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Classroom Games For St. Patrick’s Day – Move and Freeze!

ELEMENTARY P.E. GAMES

The Move and Freeze series is a fun freeze dance activity for kids. 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. Move and Freeze Overview.

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Would You Rather? Brain Break Activity! Minions Edition

ELEMENTARY P.E. GAMES

If you enjoy this Minions game, then also be sure to check out my latest Minions Yoga Freeze dance, along with my entire Would You Rather series and other popular videos: Back To School Games: Would You Rather? Minions Yoga Freeze Dance! Overview.

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Encanto Workout Game – Guess The Character!

ELEMENTARY P.E. GAMES

– Animal Race Showdown , Leprechauns On The Run , and Yoga Freeze Dance! . PE Games: Yoga Freeze Dance. Next, students will have 30 seconds to perform the dance, exercise, or yoga pose that matches with the correct character. -At Encanto Workout Overview.

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Turning Red Workout Game For Kids – Find Mei!

ELEMENTARY P.E. GAMES

Overview. Find Mei is a fun Turning Red workout game for kids! It’s the newest addition to the Turning Red brain break series, and this time it’s going to put your skills to the test! I created this game based off my “Find The Gnome” series and added in a few hidden surprises.

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5 Bosu Ball: Push Up Challenges

Gopher PE

Activity Ideas Rhythm and DancePush-Up Challenges. Follow/Subscribe to John on Twitter , Instagram , Pinterest , YouTube , or on his website. For 30+ Bosu Challenges. Burpee to Balance to 180 Objective: To complete a set number of burpees with a Bosu Balance in between.

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St. Patrick’s Day Games For Kids – Race For The Jackpot!

ELEMENTARY P.E. GAMES

Overview. Who Will Win? – Race For The Jackpot is a fun St. Patrick’s Day game for kids! This game was created as an interactive virtual activity to help get kids / students up and moving!

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9 Fun Cross-Curricular Match Activities!

Gopher PE

Activity Ideas Rhythm and DanceFollow/Subscribe to John on Twitter , Instagram , Pinterest , YouTube , or on his website. For 40+ Numeracy Learning Activities For a resource on great numeracy games.

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Halloween Classroom Games For Kids – Luigi’s Halloween Run!

ELEMENTARY P.E. GAMES

Overview. This might be one of my favorite Halloween brain breaks yet! I hope you’re not scared of ghost! Luigi’s friends have gone missing, and I have a feeling King Boo has something to do with it. Help Luigi rescue his friends by dodging the obstacles and solving the puzzles. Luigi’s Halloween run makes for a fun Halloween classroom game for kids or brain break activity that will definitely get everyone up and moving!

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St. Patrick’s Day Brain Break – Escape Gold Mountain!

ELEMENTARY P.E. GAMES

Escape Gold Mountain Overview. I’m really excited to share my newest St. Patrick’s Day brain break – Escape From Gold Mountain! This interactive game is made for kids.

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Volleyball (Middle School)

Open Phys Ed

Manipulative Skills: (Grade 6-8) Refines manipulative skills to improve performance in dance, fitness, and sport activities. Locomotor Skills: (Grade 6) Safely and purposefully uses mature locomotor skills in rhythms and patterns in dance, fitness, and sport environments.

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2022 Robert P. Pangrazi Scholar Lecture

Arizona Health and Physical Education

strength training, dance, yoga and lifetime fitness classes. certified Dance PL3Y instructor. Jessica Shawley will give the 2022 Robert P. Pangrazi Scholar Lecture on Thursday, November 3rd at the Arizona State Convention.

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Using Movement to Improve Mental Health

Human Kinetics

Human Kinetics author Erica Hornthal was a guest on Building America Now with David Bolanos to talk about her practice as a dance & movement therapist and her Body Awareness for Mental Health Online Course. .

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5 Tips for Teaching Physical Education Without a Gym

SHAPE America

Fitness and dance videos are great. Are you losing your gym space for a class period, a day, a week or longer? It’s not unusual. At some point, most physical education teachers have had to give up the gym for a concert, rehearsal, assembly, construction, or other school/community activity.

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Innovative Teacher Award

Arizona Health and Physical Education

This award is given to any current Health, Physical Education, or Dance teacher that are using technology, techniques, public relations, and the latest fitness trends to inspire all children to develop a lifelong love for exercise.

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Movement Concept Stations for PE Grades K-5

S&S

School: Ravenwood Elementary Activity: Movement Concepts Stations Skills: Locomotor Movements, Pathways, Levels, Speeds, Balance, Dancing Grade: K-5 Movement Concepts Description This is a stations based activity where students work on different types of body movement.

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Fishin’ for Change: Combining Physical Education and Outdoor Recreation

SHAPE America

Whether the activity is basketball or fencing, dance or “circus arts,” it generally has well-defined rules, a time-driven structure, and adults to studiously facilitate. We teach at the Ancona School, a small, progressive elementary school in the Hyde Park area of Chicago’s South Side.

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Middle School Physical Education Units

PLT4M

4) Dance Let’s turn up the music and have some fun! This unit aims to provide every student an engaging and welcoming introduction to the basics of dance fitness. Here, Alexa and Hunter go through a full dance fitness routine that middle school students can follow along to.

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PE Activities Without Equipment

PLT4M

Different topics and units for fitness-focused pe activities without equipment, include: Foundational Fitness (Bodyweight exercises) Yoga Dance Pilates Boxing Stretching Mobility. 5) Dance What better way to get moving and exercise than dance? Dance fitness is for everyone!

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