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. Every student comes from a different background, and their experience with sports and movement varies.

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Carly's P.E. Games

AUGUST 24, 2018

I have a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Movement Science (aka. Please be sure your child brings gym shoes to school on their P.E. Gym shoes are required for safe participation. Physical Education Welcome Letter - 2018/2019 WELCOME Welcome back to school! since 2005. I love teaching P.E.!

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Gopher Sport

APRIL 16, 2025

By thoughtfully integrating a variety of skills and activities, we ensure that every studentespecially those who identify as non-PE or non-athletehas the opportunity to achieve success, develop confidence, and ultimately discover their unique movement niche.

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Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

This approach, which Ive labeled More, Younger, insists that increased time on the field, in the gym, or on the court is the surest path to success, scholarships, and lifelong athletic achievement. The stages typically look like this: Active Start (06 years): Emphasize basic movement skills and unstructured play 99% development, 1% winning.

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Gopher Sport

APRIL 24, 2025

Events like these provide students with disabilities the opportunity to participate in fun, engaging activities tailored to their unique needs, ensuring they experience the joy and benefits of movement in a supportive environment! These are posted around the gym so all visiting students can see their school name and colors.

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Montessori Physical Education

AUGUST 27, 2023

I am a physical education teacher and I have my own classroom, whether it be the gym or outside.” We have our own goals and objectives, such as teaching gross and fine motor movement and Social and Emotional skills. Classrooms are typically much smaller than gym settings, indoor or outdoor. Talk to your classroom teachers.

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Physical Education Update

AUGUST 12, 2022

The exercises are described as “constantly varied function movements” that employ some equipment that you might already have in your storage room, including dumbbells, barbells, jump ropes, gymnastics rings, medicine balls, pull-up bars, kettlebells, plyometric boxes, rowers, resistance bands, and mats. Dick Moss, Editor, PE Update.com.

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Heartzones

JUNE 13, 2023

Reach Outside of the 4 Walls of the Gym During my 20 year career as a PE teacher in Vinton, Iowa, my school would hold an open house the first few weeks of school. For me, as the Physical Education teacher, I would put all the different types of balls in the middle of the gym. It was as if time had stood still for fifty years.

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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. Skills include: Look Around Be aware of your surroundings and where others are on the field or in the gym.

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Active Schools Us

JANUARY 11, 2023

For example, with the rise of pickleball’s popularity in recent years, as the physical education teacher, perhaps you invite the teacher you are friendly with to come by the gym or your outside space to learn the game, interact with students in a positive manner, and to obtain the benefit of physical activity during the workday.

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Active Schools Us

MARCH 24, 2021

Throughout the pandemic, after getting into that gym and working up a sweat practicing our individual skills at separate baskets, we all left the gym feeling a little bit healthier and a little bit happier. The relationships we’ve built with our boys and girls extend far beyond the gym walls.

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Gopher Sport

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In this blog, we’ve compiled 13 creative and enjoyable winter-themed indoor activity ideas that you can do with your students, turning your gym into a winter wonderland of movement and fun! This movement engages your core and obliques. Students can practice all aspects of fishing right within the gym!

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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! Encourage movement and creativity and challenge them to explore how they can use the scarf in different ways.

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Gopher Sport

JULY 26, 2024

Do your students ever walk into your gym and feel at peace? As physical educators, I believe that we can make a big difference in the gym, teaching peace and love through our everyday practices. As my students come to the gym, the first thing they see are the two signs below! My charity in my words brings peace to our world.”

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Elementary P.E. Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The witch will ride on a broom stick (pool noodle) as they navigate around the gym. The witch’s mission is to capture the trick-or-treaters and turn them into ghosts. Taggers on Broomsticks: Choose 2-3 students to be a witch. Pumpkins and Trick-or-Treaters: Choose two lucky students to be the pumpkins.

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Physical Education Ideas

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Imagine the gym transformed into a vibrant sea of green and gold, with leprechaun hats bobbing and shamrock smiles all around. The Games: Leprechaun Gold Rush (Kindergarten to Grade 2 - Run and Collect Game): Description: Scatter gold-colored balls (Leprechaun gold) around the gym. Divide the gym into two sides.

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Montessori Physical Education

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Unfortunately, this means some classroom teachers view gym class as not having enough worth on its own to be something that would never be considered skippable. Blurring the lines between gym class and the classroom raises the importance of PE. Do what you are told, and you can go to PE. PE should be as skippable as a math lesson.

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Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The game is played on a grid that can be made by making lines in the ground or using the court lines of a gym. The movements of the offense and defense become rhythmic when it is played at an advanced level. The game is played by two teams; one team is the invading team, and the other is the defending team.

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Gopher Sport

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As we approach the spookiest time of the year, bring some Halloween magic to your gym class! Witch’s Broomstick Scooter Relay Set up a relay race where students ride scooters around the gym, while pretending to be witches riding on their broomsticks. Pumpkin Patch Pick-Up Scatter orange beanbags (pumpkins) around the play area.

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Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 31, 2025

By my way of observation, this implication of skill development introduced and developed in a progressive and staged manner seems inherent in many fundamental movement skill assessment and teaching programs. dance, swimming, bike riding, fitness, gym), 'outdoor pursuits' (e.g. Meaning in movement, sport and physical education.

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Gopher Sport

AUGUST 14, 2023

Plus, with their vibrant colors and customizable banners, these pits will add a pop of excitement to any gym or playground. And for an extra twist, encourage creative movement as they flip their way to victory! Say goodbye to complex setups and hello to accurate assessments, all while adding a dash of vibrant fun to your gym space!

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PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Much of this criticism comes from outdated stereotypes of “gym class.” ” The old school term “gym class” usually elicits images of rolling out the balls and playing dodgeball. Physical activity defined by Shape is “any bodily movement that results in energy expenditure.”

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PLT4M

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Identifies movement concepts related to locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative skills. Defines and provides examples of movement activities for developing skill-related fitness components. Identifies movement strengths and opportunities for practice to support individual improvement. Sets observable short-term goals.

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PLT4M

APRIL 22, 2024

At PLT4M, we recommend teaching gymnastic skills to the entire class allowing ample students time to practice the movements together. Students can bend knees or bring legs further apart to modify the difficulty of the movement. Slow things down so that you can perform these movements with great form and technique!

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First Beat

JANUARY 10, 2023

We also have our practice gym including a weight room right next to the arena. All the coaches are passionate about what we do– getting them out of the practice gym is tough! Besides that, I also keep track of the highest/lowest TRIMP and Movement Load for each player. My key parameters are TRIMP, Movement Load, and EPOC-peak.

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PLT4M

JANUARY 27, 2025

High-quality PE lesson plans play a critical role in helping PE teachers inspire, motivate, and engage their students while teaching valuable skills that extend far beyond the gym. A well-crafted lesson doesnt just teach a skillit sparks excitement for movement, fuels creativity, and helps kids develop a love for physical activity.

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Gopher Sport

JANUARY 3, 2024

Objective: To allow for movement that develops different locomotor skills and spatial awareness, and to help students understand the food groups and proper nutrition. This activity can be done in the classroom or the gym.) Directions for Level 1: “Feeling Great or Whoa” The teacher states the name of a food.

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PLT4M

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In foundational fitness lessons, students can develop fundamental movement patterns like the squat, lunge, hinge, press, and pull. Students spend a great deal of time learning and developing bodyweight movement patterns before ever wanting or need equipment. In each workout, we will warm up for roughly 5 minutes of dynamic movements!

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Aspire-Ed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

KS1: “Pupils should develop fundamental movement skills, become increasingly competent and confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others. Flexibility, strength, technique, speed, control, coordination and balance are all developed through gymnastics.

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Gopher Sport

AUGUST 24, 2023

I share the completed curriculum maps through Seesaw , Schoology , a google site , and I post them on the bulletin board near the gym. I see the focus on game play shift into middle and high school, but at the elementary level, my hope to create a love for physical movement. If an opportunity arises to play an actual game (i.e.,

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PLT4M

JULY 22, 2022

What started as a passion project for our two co-founders while they were teaching and coaching has since grown into a nationwide fitness and health movement. PLT4M went from a little upstairs shoebox in a friend’s gym to their own space with a PLT4M branded gym that you see on all the videos today! .

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Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

It doesn't have to be running; many different movement modalities exist. We want to give the child as many potential possibilities as we can by exposing the child to as many different types of movement as possible. However, we do work towards mastering basic gross and fine motor movements. “

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PLT4M

JUNE 15, 2023

See more here on the differences between physical activity vs. physical education.) Physical literacy is about learning a wide range of functional movement skills across different activities. In this curriculum model, students learn and develop functional movement skills like squat, lunge, hinge, press, and pull.

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Montessori Physical Education

JANUARY 15, 2023

Your students will absolutely love the dynamic, fast-paced game that utilizes a diving headbutt movement as the main mode of play! Materials: · A large play area (gym or outside) o If played outside, you will need cones or rubber disc dots to mark the boundaries of the playing area and the midline. ·

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Physical Education Ideas

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Here is a brief description of the games: Heart Hunt Relay (Kindergarten to Grade 6): Description: Scatter heart-shaped cutouts around the gym. This adds an academic twist, aligning the activities with broader learning objectives and reinforcing the idea that physical education encompasses more than just movement.

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Gopher Sport

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Some possible fitness activities after touching the rope or ball include 15 jumping jacks, 3 burpees, 8 push-ups, running one lap around the gym, 10 jump lunges, 12 sit-ups, etc. Integrity is the key to classroom culture, so students get a chance to show integrity as the string or ball touches them. 3 – Identify as many muscles as you can.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Essentially, this refers to poor coordination within a series of muscle contractions once a movement is initiated. This is an issue regarding the relationship between the agonist muscle group (those that start the movement) and antagonist muscle groups (those that control the movement). Bonus Content!

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