Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Her advice to other PE teachers? “Be Visit the Gopher website and explore other PE sites to discover new ways to use your tools and engage your students.” Allison notes challenges like limited instructional time, shared gym spaces, and, of course, the heat of Dubai’s climate. Be innovative with the equipment you have.

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SHAPE America

MARCH 21, 2023

Here are a few winter activities for elementary PE that include opportunities to practice personal responsibility, cultural studies, and physical fitness outside.

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The PE Specialist

AUGUST 1, 2023

Don’t you love getting to see inside another PE Teachers equipment room? Anytime I visit another school one of my favorite things is to go see how they organize things in their gym and equipment room so I can grab a few ideas for myself and hopefully improve the way […] What’s Up Phys Ed Fam!

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PLT4M

JUNE 13, 2025

What Are Instant Activities for Elementary PE? Instant activities for elementary PE are quick, minimal-setup PE games that students begin as soon as they enter the gym. Benefits of Instant Activities in PE: Maximize Time: Use every minute of class productively. Let’s dive in! Reinforce classroom routines.

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SHAPE America

JUNE 8, 2022

It was not unusual for my girls volleyball team to be kicked out of the gym because the football team needed an indoor space because of bad weather. Megaera Regan Megaera Regan is a retired elementary physical education teacher from the Port Washington School District on Long Island. This was probably my first real “Title IX Battle.”

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Physical Education Update

JULY 17, 2022

This video provides a great reminder for PE teachers and coaches. While this video highlights a hockey rink, the concept applies to soccer fields and nets, basketball courts, gymnasiums, gym equipment, running tracks, swimming pools and more.

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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. Keep learning and sharing with other PE teachers to stay inspired.

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Mr. Kirsch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This idea is from Jon Peterson, PE Teacher Robert Frost Elementary Do not run into one another.

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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. Second, when adults get involved with kids for a sport or other activity or engage in PE, everyone wins.

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Gopher Sport

JULY 12, 2024

Through careful planning and continuous improvement, PE classes should be educational and fun! Equipping students with the skills and the confidence to lead a healthy lifestyle outside the gym.

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Carly's P.E. Games

MAY 23, 2021

My gym allows for 7-8 roads. Place 2 scooters under a gym mat. This has become a well known game in the PE teacher community. Please check out my other links: My Teachers Pay Teachers Store: [link] My Webpage: [link] My Youtube Channel: [link] My Pinterest Page: [link] Video coming soon!

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Mindful PE

MAY 20, 2020

Our school has been closed since March, but today I got the chance to go in and take a peek at the gym and pack up my old classroom. I'm following a wonderful PE teacher and have some very big shoes to fill. I also plan on trading out the background in my Virtual PE Class (read more HERE ) to match the school gym.

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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. Parents and their children would go from class to class to hear from the teachers about what they could expect their children to be learning in the coming year.

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PLT4M

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Jump rope activities for elementary PE also support additional SHAPE K-5 standards, including but not limited to: 2.2.3 Teaching Cues for Jump Rope To help students build confidence in physical education class, PE teachers should start by teaching proper jump rope techniques before incorporating fun and engaging jump rope activities.

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PLT4M

JANUARY 27, 2025

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. Challenges Finding Elementary PE Lesson Plans For elementary PE teachers, finding the right lesson plans can feel like navigating a disjointed maze of resources.

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Physical Education Ideas

JANUARY 3, 2020

I’ll never forget taking over from someone who left our gym resource room in a mess. You are a much better teacher when you know where your equipment is, how much you have of something and when you will be using it/not using it. Depending on where you live, these can be hard to come by as a PE teacher, but they are out there.

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Montessori Physical Education

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Do what you are told, and you can go to PE. This means classroom teachers think one of the best uses of your class is to be the carrot on a stick. 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.

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PLT4M

APRIL 22, 2024

Instead, PE teachers can introduce basic gymnastics skills in just about any gymnasium or space. From here, teachers can create stations where students can spread out into smaller groups and practice different types of exercises. Below is the bear crawl with written notes and instructions!

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PLT4M

MAY 9, 2025

Whether PE teachers want a quick game for an instant activity or fun variations to fill an entire PE class, there are countless options to choose from. Physical education teachers can easily adapt tag games to work indoors or outside, offering flexibility based on available space.

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Gopher Sport

JULY 8, 2024

An Olympic year is always a special time for an elementary PE teacher. Start by showing a few clips of past races on the projector in the gym to give the students an understanding of the relay. In this event, four runners each run 100 meters and hand the baton to the next runner.

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PLT4M

JULY 22, 2022

2012 – 2016 The Early Years of PLT4M Sam Breslin, a high school PE teacher, football coach, and strength coach, was spending countless hours in front of the computer trying to program workouts for his students and athletes. PLT4M's new office and gym decked out for the company holiday party 2019. Ready to Learn More? .

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PLT4M

MARCH 18, 2025

However, there are plenty of fun variations and activities that can be introduced in PE to keep soccer exciting and engaging for elementary students. Physical education teachers can modify soccer games to work inside the gym or outdoors, allowing for flexibility depending on the space available. Download Now!

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PLT4M

OCTOBER 27, 2022

PE teachers can choose from endless PE activities without equipment. We share six examples of fitness-focused pe activities without equipment and provide a downloadable PDF of even more lessons for your physical education class. No equipment, no problem. A physical education class participates in a no equipment workout.

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Gopher Sport

AUGUST 1, 2024

Warm Welcomes at the Gym Door The first part of our routine begins at the gym doors. Our students wait outside the doors until a PE teacher welcomes them in with one of three greetings, which is student choice. There is a small poster attached to the gym door as a reminder.

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Physical Education Ideas

JANUARY 11, 2024

3) Rewarding Good Behavior – PE Class of the Fortnite How do you reward positive student behavior and consequently, how do you establish effective consequences for negative student behavior? How can you make amends or repair the relationship with your classmates or the PE teacher?

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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. Because of that, I am recommending some of my favorite PE books to help fill in the gaps with grade-level specifics.

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Gopher Sport

JULY 15, 2024

STEM Sports has been a game changer for many PE programs across the country, as the curriculum fosters physical literacy with lessons designed for the physically active learner by taking students out of the traditional classroom setting and into the gym or on to the field.

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Mindful PE

JULY 28, 2021

As a new PE teacher, coming from the classroom, I was not prepared for the number of times I would need to reestablish the ground rules and expectations for PE class. Respecting our gym was the most broad way of including the equipment, the room itself, as well as the routine and schedule we had in place.

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School Yard

APRIL 3, 2020

We PE teachers are masters of walking into a storeroom and using whatever equipment is there to create amazing opportunities for students to move, collaborate, and be physically literate. Tips and Reminders for PE Teachers: Your students need to see you working to create opportunities to learn outside of school like you do in your gym.

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Gopher Sport

APRIL 10, 2024

They literally enter the gym asking me if we are going to use them.” - Trent Suzuki 2022 SHAPE America Western District PE TOY See BlazePod in Action! Click on a button below to view videos of BlazePod being used in PE! Have all the students start in the middle of the gym. Set up several cones with BlazePod on top.

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Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Students who dislike gym are typically less physically gifted than some of their counterparts. I’m not saying that Montessori teachers are not physically fit or healthy. This can also be very difficult for a PE teacher who has specialized in their craft and has less working knowledge in the other classroom subjects.

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PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2023

Therefore, virtual PE must have a complete course offering of lesson plans that can be achieved and completed at home with limited or no equipment. 2) Is the virtual PE class going to be synchronous, asynchronous, or a combination of both? A PLT4M activity dashboard that gives PE teacher insights on activity.

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Gopher Sport

AUGUST 28, 2024

You’ll find detailed lesson plans and instructional videos that can be adapted for spaces as varied as basketball gyms, hard courts, or even fields using simple barrier tape around poles, cones, or chairs. We are PE teachers. Net-Generation-Add-a-PE-Class-2023 5. We know how to be creative!

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

JULY 21, 2023

Being an adapted physical educator, the first couple weeks of school for us is all about trying to figure out which schools we will be covering, who the physical education teachers are at that school and what the PE schedule will be for the kids on our caseload. Simple right? Simply put, visuals!

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

MAY 9, 2023

We’re all ready to put the equipment away (hopefully somewhat organized), submit those final progress reports or grades, and shut the gym, wrestling room, multipurpose room doors for at least 6ish weeks. Ok, so I get that we are in the last month of school and the last thing you’re thinking about is professional development.

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Montessori Physical Education

APRIL 9, 2022

So for you, take this blog with a grain of salt, especially if you have a giant gym class. However, if you are a classroom teacher who does PE, or a lucky PE teacher with a reasonable class size, this blog post may be for you. Because music is rarely played in the classroom, I won’t play it in gym.

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Mindful PE

AUGUST 4, 2021

As a classroom teacher, I taught about emotions, but realize now as a PE teacher that students feel and experience things very differently in a gym. Incorporating the practice of naming emotions in PE class is incredibly important, and not just when things feel out of control.

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