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

MAY 12, 2025

Invasion games for elementary PE offer more than just excitement and energytheyre a powerful tool for teaching key movement concepts like offensive and defensive positioning, teamwork, spatial awareness, and agility. Each lesson includes a one page lesson overview, equipment checklist, game setup, teaching cues, standard alignment and more!

Elementary

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. Beyond motor skill development, basketball games for elementary PE also support other sub-standards throughout Shape K-5 Standards.

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

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. Each lesson includes a one page lesson overview, equipment checklist, game setup, teaching cues, standard alignment and more! Download Now! Kicking Standards: PreK-2: 1.2.10

Elementary

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

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

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.

Physical Activity

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

Arizona Health and Physical Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

standard deviation points away from the mean on the Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD-2). 1402 (25)].

Physical Education

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

Arizona Health and Physical Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often struggle with motor skills, making it difficult for these children in physical education classes because they may not be able to keep up. Below are some strategies and ideas for teaching students with autism in physical education. Teaching Elementary Physical Education.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Our students in chairs and those with low motor skills will be in charge of creating a “challenge” for our traverser. We will teach each student to harness up. This in itself is a skill. These fine motor skills will test their patience as well as take them out of their comfort zones.

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

Human Kinetics

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In the presentation, Human Kinetics author Nancy Egner Markos talks about teaching fundamental motor skills to young students. . After viewing the presentation, download a certificate of completion for Teaching the Nuts and Bolts of PE. . Professional Development. Savings during our Virtual Symposium. *

Teaching

Skillastics

JUNE 23, 2022

Studies have proven that physical movement helps kids improve their memory, increase their motivation, and improve motor skills. The post Reasons Movement Teaches Kids to Think and Learn Differently appeared first on Skillastics. Can science really confirm that physical activity affects the way we learn? Absolutely.

Movement

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

The PE Hub

OCTOBER 14, 2024

A multi-skills teaching bag can also be a great resource, offering a range of tools to keep pupils engaged and ready to go as and when needed. These activities can be tailored to suit the available space and help promote critical thinking and problem-solving skills in the class while also developing fine and gross motor skills.

Primary School

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

Human Kinetics

JUNE 20, 2022

In the presentation below, Human Kinetics author George Graham shares about his career that has spanned teaching physical education at the K-12 level, university level, and, now retired, as a volunteer with the Boys and Girls Club. He discusses how to help students with basic motor skills by unpacking the PE standards. . .

Motor Skills

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

Open Phys Ed

JANUARY 15, 2024

SIGN UP HERE National Standards and Outcomes Focus for Jump Rope Skills Standard 1. Demonstrates competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns. Register for FREE today to access all of the modules. Outcome [E4.3&5].

Motor Skills

Learning Through Sport

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

In Play with Purpose: Game Sense to Sport Literacy I include Rushall & Siedentop's (1972) shaping strategy as a guide for planning game-based teaching episodes as one of the strategies they emphasise is priming. Exercise training improves motor skill learning via selective activation of mTOR. Science Advances, 5 (7).

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. Discussion: Most children have been served up an unhealthy diet of too much screen time (television, computers, smartphones, video games) and too little “free play.”

Motor Skills

Physical Education Ideas

MAY 11, 2019

We teach games in PE class to teach concepts like resilience and persistence. In games, there will be moments of joy and moments of heartbreak and sadness – but each of these moments offers valuable learning experiences for the kids we teach. Through games, students learn different, important skills.

Motor Skills

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

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. with little concern given to reaching standards and outcomes. Consider all the Community Factors.

Physical Education

What's New in Adapted Physical Education

JUNE 8, 2021

They go in-depth and discuss their experiences, how they navigated the pandemic and student teaching, and the keys to becoming a successful APE teacher. In this episode we join them in one of their undergraduate APE classes, where they had a panel of recent APE student teachers and their mentors they worked with in the field.

Teacher

Physical Education Ideas

MAY 10, 2020

I know, we teach P.E. Why not create a unit that incorporates scope for all elements of PE, from Fundamental Motor Skills, to Game Sense to Yoga and more? I’ve experienced this already and it hasn’t been easy, but I’ve figured out a few things that have helped me… and it’s because I’ve asked myself “ What matters?”.

Physical Education

PLT4M

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Physical Education programs teach children the skills and knowledge needed to establish and sustain an active lifestyle. Examples of physical education include teaching concepts and building skills around things like muscular strength, endurance, mobility, cardiovascular health, and more. ” – Shape America.

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

Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It has been known to improve health-related and skill-related fitness components, as well as helping to establish foot work and motor skills that can serve individuals in many other sports or activities.

Middle School

Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It has been known to improve health-related and skill-related fitness components, as well as helping to establish foot work and motor skills that can serve individuals in many other sports or activities.

Middle School