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

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

Elementary

Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Four days a week, I teach two classes in the afternoon, and on Fridays, I have middle school all morning and one more 6-9 class to finish out the week. Not long ago, I worked hard to categorize my lessons using the SHAPE standards (Society of Health and Physical Educators) to ensure I covered key movement patterns and motor skills.

PE Teacher

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. Beyond motor skill development, these games also support other standards like Standard 3 (Developing social skills through movement).

Elementary

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. Fun and engaging activities that emphasize movement, ball control, and coordination help students develop foundational skills while keeping them active and engaged.

Elementary

Gopher Sport

MARCH 3, 2025

Motor Skill Development: The act of bowling requires coordinated movements, improving hand-eye coordination, balance, and throwing mechanics. The primary goals of teaching Bowling in Physical Education do not include teaching the routines of how you play at a bowling alley.

Physical Education

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. Include foundational skills (e.g.,

Motor Skills

SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

Going outside to be physically active helps increase a person’s mood, their fine motor skills, social skills, and personal wel-being. Never underestimate your ability to create and teach new games and activities. Encourage them to teach you the rules and skills of the games. Make it a friendly competition.

Physical Activity

Human Kinetics

JULY 18, 2022

Teaching Fundamental Motor Skills, Fourth Edition , is the one must-have book for all new and veteran elementary physical education teachers! Each well-organized chapter begins with a brief synopsis of the suggested age at which each skill should be mastered and the SHAPE Grade-Level Outcome with which it is aligned.

Motor Skills

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Due to a variety of factors including less opportunity for physical activity throughout the day, more seated classroom time, and fewer foundational motor experiences (swinging, climbing trees, jumping rope, building forts, and kicking the can in the alley), children’s fundamental motor skills are on the decline ( Brian et al.,

Physical Education

Skillastics

JUNE 23, 2022

Studies have proven that physical movement helps kids improve their memory, increase their motivation, and improve motor skills. Movement and physical activity truly helps kids think and learn differently. The post Reasons Movement Teaches Kids to Think and Learn Differently appeared first on Skillastics.

Movement

PLT4M

OCTOBER 23, 2023

These include: STATE GOAL 19: Acquire movement and motor skills and understand concepts necessary to engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity. Schools introduce and teach units like general fitness , weightlifting , yoga , dance, bootcamp , and other physical fitness units with PLT4M to address the 6 ISBE PE standards.

PE

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 13, 2021

Engaging in this contested space, I did my doctoral study on curriculum and pedagogical innovation for sport teaching, which I termed sport literacy as I theorised sport teaching in PE using multi-literacy theory (Drummond & Pill, 2011; Pill, 2009, 2010). if interested, see here ).

Sports

Open Phys Ed

JANUARY 15, 2024

Created by: Jenna Knapp & Aaron Hart Special Contributions: Deedi Boland Design: Jennifer Truong For thousands of years, children have been jumping rope as a form of movement-based fun. SIGN UP HERE National Standards and Outcomes Focus for Jump Rope Skills Standard 1. Register for FREE today to access all of the modules.

Motor Skills

Active Schools Us

MARCH 24, 2021

When they’re young, we need to much more regularly provide our kids with opportunities to play and develop basic motor skills. As they reach school age, we also need to provide them with high-quality PE that teaches them how to be active for a lifetime and before- and after-school opportunities to practice what they learn in PE.

Coaching

PLT4M

MARCH 6, 2023

Alex has an undergraduate degree in Physical Education Teaching and a master’s degree in Curriculum and Teaching in Physical Education. UDL has emerged as a framework that uses a variety of teaching methods to remove barriers and increase access to learning to provide ALL students equal opportunities to learn and succeed.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Due to a variety of factors including less opportunity for physical activity throughout the day, more seated classroom time, and fewer foundational motor experiences (swinging, climbing trees, jumping rope, building forts, and kicking the can in the alley), children’s fundamental motor skills are on the decline ( Brian et al.,

Physical Education

Montessori Physical Education

MARCH 26, 2023

From a solely concrete perspective, they are using sports balls to work on different gross motor skills. In a traditional PE class, the physical gross motor movement practice is the beginning and the end. This ability for PE lessons to teach concepts from the classroom is the mission of Montessori Physical Education.

Motor Skills

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., 2015) and motor performance (O’Loughlin et al., Specific teaching strategies to accompany technology can be helpful for teachers to ensure efficacy. 2015), motivation (Melton et al.,

Physical Education

Whole Child Sports

JANUARY 20, 2020

One result: potentially delayed development of motor skills. If you are teaching your child a game or technique, correct her only once or twice each outing. Set up an obstacle course that requires different movement skills: crawling under; jumping over; kicking; running through and around obstacles.

Motor Skills

Gopher Sport

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

They have a basketful of things to teach, but they are not organized in any educational scheme. Instead, it becomes a “what should I teach today?” A collection of games, fitness, and skill activities is not a curriculum. For example, there might be an emphasis on athletic skills or the enjoyment of physical activity.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Looking for a challenging content domain to motivate children to learn a broad range of motor skills? There are five different movement families within parkour: (1) landings, (2) spins, (3) vaults, (4) wall movements and (5) swings. Types of Movement Families: 1. Consider parkour! plinth) and narrow (i.e.,

Elementary School

PLT4M

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Physical education provides cognitive content and instruction designed to develop motor skills, knowledge, and behaviors for physical activity and physical fitness.” For instance, when a math teacher has to teach a unit on multiplication, they don’t typically create lesson plans on their own.

PE

PLT4M

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Physical Activity is bodily movement of any type. Physical Education programs teach children the skills and knowledge needed to establish and sustain an active lifestyle. These different units are examples of physical education because they teach transferrable life skills that allow students to pursue lifelong fitness.

Physical Activity

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

But the California State Standards for PE can still be achieved by teaching basic water safety and dry-land swim skills. Below is an example of how PLT4M teaches dryland and in water flutter kicking, which is a core component to successful swimming. For example, not all physical education programs have access to a pool.

PE

PLT4M

JUNE 20, 2023

Modeling is the process of demonstrating and exhibiting a behavior or skill to students. It is a powerful teaching tool that allows physical education teachers to show students how to do something correctly and with proper form. First, the teacher models good form and technique of the movement.

Physical Education

Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

For decades, children have been jumping rope as a form of movement-based fun. This module reinforces basic rope jumping skills and then progresses to include a variety of tricks, challenges, long rope jumping, and cooperative routines.

Middle School

Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

For decades, children have been jumping rope as a form of movement-based fun. This module reinforces basic rope jumping skills and then progresses to include a variety of tricks, challenges, long rope jumping, and cooperative routines.

Middle School

Skillastics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

activities and sport-skills that after school programs can provide you may not have considered. It can improve balance, flexibility, and strength , as kids learn slow movements, deep breathing, and self control as they learn to hold poses. Shop now 1. Yoga It’s for everyone. Martial Arts A whole lot more than kicking.

Physical Activity

Skillastics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

activities and sport-skills that after school programs can provide you may not have considered. It can improve balance, flexibility, and strength , as kids learn slow movements, deep breathing, and self control as they learn to hold poses. Yoga: it’s for everyone. It can help improve heart function and reduce inflammation in the body.

Physical Activity

PLT4M

JUNE 7, 2022

Competence: Provide quality instruction and demonstrations, especially during new or novel movements/concepts. multiple variations of a task focusing on the same motor skill). Use reciprocal and self-check teaching styles. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education , 36 (3), 277–291. Bonus Content! link] Sun, H.,

Motivation

PLT4M

JULY 18, 2023

This entails teaching fundamental prerequisites and implementing an elective model that enhances student participation by offering a more comprehensive range of choices. Standard 1: The physically literate individual demonstrates competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns.

Physical Education

PLT4M

MAY 17, 2023

” – Vanderbilt University – Special Education Resource Project Long story short, education research leads to research findings that use data and evidence to show the effectiveness of a teaching strategy. All of this isn’t to say that many of the best practices in teaching aren’t backed by educational research.

Education

SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Develop Skills: Helps students practice and refine motor skills in a controlled, progressive manner. These adaptations are grouped based on their function whether its improving access, guiding movement, or breaking down skills into manageable steps.

Motor Skills

PLT4M

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Elementary physical education curriculum plays a vital role in developing students physical literacy, motor skills, and overall well-being. At a young age, elementary students are introduced to the essential movement skills and fundamental motor patterns that will serve as building blocks for future physical activity.

Elementary

PLT4M

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

PE games for elementary students promote and enhance physical activity while helping students develop important motor skills, teamwork, physical literacy, and more. Each lesson includes a one page lesson overview, equipment checklist, game setup, teaching cues, standard alignment and more! Download Now!

Elementary

PLT4M

MAY 13, 2025

From foundational movement skills to cooperative games and sport-based activities, each unit is designed to engage young learners and promote lifelong physical literacy and physical activity. Each lesson includes a one page lesson overview, equipment checklist, game setup, teaching cues, standard alignment and more!

Elementary