SHAPE America

AUGUST 2, 2023

How do you know what to teach in your physical education classes? If you often find yourself wondering or asking in an online community what you should do in PE this week or next week or how to start, then you picked the right article to read. This made it easy for me to reference and teach my students about our learning goals.

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PLT4M

JUNE 13, 2025

The right instant activities for elementary PE can help kick off physical education class with energy and structure. In this article, we explore a variety of instant activities that physical education teachers can tap into throughout the year. What Are Instant Activities for Elementary PE? Let’s dive in!

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PLT4M

JANUARY 27, 2025

Elementary physical education teachers have a lot to cover! We have put together a free sample of elementary PE lesson plans that are sure to spark excitement with elementary students in physical education class. Another significant challenge is the cost of high-quality resources.

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Gopher Sport

APRIL 17, 2025

The Master PE Teacher course is an engaging and informative learning experience for educators of all levels and backgrounds. Although the course is geared specifically towards PE teachers at the elementary and middle school levels, there is certainly much to take away regardless of what you teach and the age of students you work with!

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PLT4M

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Jump rope activities for elementary PE are more than just a way to get kids movingthey help students develop essential motor skills, rhythm, timing, and coordination. These activities also promote cardiovascular endurance, agility, and perseverance, making them a valuable part of any PE curriculum. Download Now!

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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. Explore our K-5 Curriculum with these select Lesson Plans from some of our most popular Units. Download Now!

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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. Examples include, but are not limited to: 2.5.1

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Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Heather teaches hundreds of students each week, navigating her own physical challenges while showing her students the importance of resilience, self-acceptance, and overcoming adversity. Below are the top lessons learned during her appearance on the PE Huddle webinar with Dr. . It’s as though I had a stroke in the womb.

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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.

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

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PLT4M

MARCH 18, 2025

Soccer games for elementary PE are more than just fun activitiesthey help students develop essential motor skills, coordination, and spatial awareness. Fun Soccer Games For Elementary PE Soccer is one of the most popular sports around the world, and many students may have already experienced playing outside of school.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Offering PE classes only once a week is not enough to create meaningful change. Instead, PE should be a regular part of the curriculum at every grade level , starting in elementary school and continuing through high school. Focus on teaching lifelong skills in various domains and units to prepare students for an active future.

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SHAPE America

JUNE 8, 2022

Our coach would run drills and teach us the rules, and we would play friendly games among ourselves. Megaera Regan Megaera Regan is a retired elementary physical education teacher from the Port Washington School District on Long Island. When I was in sixth grade in 1971, I played basketball intramurals.

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Gopher Sport

JANUARY 15, 2025

Its simplicity allows for easy adaptation to different age groups and skill levels, making it an excellent tool for PE teachers looking to diversify their curriculum. Heres how Boardball can be adapted for younger students, why its a great fit for PE, and what educators are saying about it.

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PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2025

Effective PE sub plans are essential to ensure that students continue to engage in meaningful physical activity no matter who is leading the class. Well-thought-out PE sub plans not only help maintain the flow of the class but also ensure that students stay active, motivated, and safe, even in the PE teachers absence.

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Lampe

JUNE 3, 2025

After completing my studies at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences many years ago, I began working as a physical education (PE) teacher in Norwegian elementary schools. Over the past 25 years, Ive also had the chance to teach a wide range of other subjectslanguage, mathematics, science, and music.

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Montessori Physical Education

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Aligning Montessori Physical Education Lessons with SHAPE America's National Standards My journey to becoming a PE teacher may not be as typical as most PE teachers. While I thought what they were doing was cool, I didn't intend to work with children, so I didn't go the PE route.

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PLT4M

APRIL 22, 2024

Instead, PE teachers can introduce basic gymnastics skills in just about any gymnasium or space. By keeping things simple, PE teachers can introduce students to the basic elements of gymnastics with some soft mats, balance beams (or even lines painted on the floor), and boxes or other elevated surfaces.

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Montessori Physical Education

OCTOBER 2, 2022

One of the most frustrating things that happen on a way too frequent basis is students who don't go to PE because they are held back by a classroom teacher. The student being held back is almost always from upper elementary or middle school. This is not a good lesson to teach our students.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

MAY 9, 2023

There are a plethora of great opportunities out there to expand your teaching knowledge with conferences, workshops, and online courses. EPEW is dedicated to providing an outlet to all creative and inspirational teachers who wish to share their craft with anyone willing to grow as an educator. Below is just a sample.

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Heartzones

JUNE 28, 2023

Four years ago, Ann Goff, the PE teacher at Lincoln Elementary, started researching heart rate sensors and step counters for her school when she came across Heart Zones. What do you wish other PE teachers understood or knew about Heart Zones? I also started using more technology in my class.

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Gopher Sport

AUGUST 1, 2024

Our students wait outside the doors until a PE teacher welcomes them in with one of three greetings, which is student choice. Here are four routines you can add to your classes that only take a few minutes but provide a lasting impact for your students!

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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.

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Gopher Sport

MAY 18, 2023

Harrison Elementary PE teacher and health. 25% of those funds raised went to her school’s PTO and another 25% went towards her PE program in the form of a Gopher gift card. team champion, Briana Fuller, hosted a fundraising event for her school this past year. Her school raised over $2,500!

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PLT4M

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Unfortunately, many wrongly assume that a pe teacher just “rolls out the ball” for a typical PE class. But anyone who has observed or taken part in a quality physical education program knows that the subject of PE is one of the best opportunities for students’ physical health development.

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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!

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Elementary PE Teacher

DECEMBER 27, 2018

As an elementary physical education teacher, you notice the excitement more than most; it seems no amount of running, jumping, and playing can rid your students of their energy. Here are seven ways elementary PE teachers can use winter break to prepare for spring semester. Take time for yourself.

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PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2023

Virtual PE is a great way to engage students in physical activity while teaching important physical education concepts. In this article, we’ll explore the benefits of virtual PE, the curriculum opportunities, and the technology that makes it possible. A PLT4M activity dashboard that gives PE teacher insights on activity.

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Montessori Physical Education

APRIL 30, 2022

This epiphany soon turns to dred for PE teachers who still have their Field Day looming over them. Some PE teachers love it. However, few people outside of PE teachers appreciate the logistics and planning that goes into making a successful Field Day. it usually goes something like this: Help!

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Montessori Physical Education

JUNE 19, 2022

Teachers have to spend time teaching towards the test, and anything that doesn’t directly improve test scores is expendable. Unfortunately, many administrators and teachers think the most useful aspect of PE is it provides an energy dump for riled up kids. So how do we save PE?

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Heartzones

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“I think Heart Zones is a very impactful tool that teachers can utilize to create a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) classroom…” ~ Brian Nassif, PE Teacher at Albert Einstein Academies What was your first experience with Physical Education technology?

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Gopher Sport

APRIL 10, 2024

Teaching Physical Education for 17 years in the Topeka Metropolitan area has been a labor of love and a highlight of my life. So impactful, that Topeka School District decided to create a whole day of Professional Development and purchase BlazePod for each elementary Physical Education teacher in the district. A $489 Value!)

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Mindful PE

JULY 14, 2021

One of the most impactful tools I use, both when I taught elementary, as well as now as a PE teacher, are Brain Breaks. In PE, kids need just as much help with regulation, both energizing as well as relaxing. What I have found is that it is often easier to teach these skills when academic challenges are removed.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Roxeanne Bush, a middle school PE teacher in Illinois, describes the need for variety and choice , “Students at this level crave choice and different options. As teachers, we need to help foster that with various activities, units, and opportunities throughout the year. These 15 ready to go lessons can help! .

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Physical Education Ideas

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

In teaching we tend to overextend ourselves way too often to try and get the most out of our students. I know we are PE teachers, and we get enough steps in a day, but doing exercise you want to do at your own free leisure is important… maybe more so for mental heath than physical. Sounds simple, but it works. Exercise for you!

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PLT4M

JULY 19, 2022

Technology can be useful at enhancing teaching and learning in physical education by increasing physical activity (PA) levels (Melton et al., Specific teaching strategies to accompany technology can be helpful for teachers to ensure efficacy. In this article, Sean explores technology use in physical education.

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PE with Palos

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I have to believe I am not alone when talking about how challenging it can sometimes be to learn new activities, strategies, organizational tips, and behavior management suggestions yet fail to find time to implement them or remember where you put them so you can tweek them and make it work for you and your teaching environment.

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