In Games and Strategies, you will find content that you cannot find in any of my books.
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For decades, there has been a search for PE activities that blend academic and physical elements. With time being a huge factor, a balance must be achieved; physical intensity must not be diminished by time spent on verbal instruction. Could the answer to this balance be easy? Easy as PIE? INNOVATIVE WAY YOUR P.E. PROGRAM CAN: •Promote reading and math •Reinforce classroom content •Challenge students physically and mentally PHYSICAL: Students use lots of high energy locomotor skills, running, skipping, leaping etc, to find assigned letters and in the span of a few seconds use fine motor skills to place the ball on the word building tray. Correct throwing form and proper basketball shooting technique may be practiced as students must throw balls into the unique mixer goal. ACADEMIC: Beginning readers get extra practice in letter recognition, spelling high frequency sight words and word building. Established readers use subject specific task cards to reinforce classroom concepts in areas of English, science, nutrition, health, etc. The math concept of fractions is utilized as “just keeping score in a game.” COLLABORATIVE: Students work in teams and every team member has a role to play. Each team has a captain, a point guard and several letter “ninjas”. Teams compete for points by spelling words quickly and must work together. The elements of cooperation and competition are extremely effective in keeping students motivated and on task. The inventor of the game, Carol Cranford is a retired physical education specialist from Alabama. "Thank you for checking out this game. It is now a staple item in my physical education curriculum because my students love it". JD Hughes -
The flash drive contains 185+ instructional videos featuring a student or students demonstrating how to successfully perform various gymnastics and scooter skills. Each video lasts between 5-30 seconds and was created to take the guesswork out of teaching these skills, increase movement time due to less demonstration time, and provide a visually accurate example to show other students how to safely perform each skill. Please click on the video links below to get an idea of what the kids will see. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gS9xlcfMTLeeGcq1wjjtDJnV1BN_sZQA/view?usp=drive_link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wTPwXfCYMW56BGrbtNDFQIhghyBlBG61/view?usp=drive_link- 14 Partner Balloon Skills How-to Videos
- 21 Scarf Skills How-to Videos
- 25 Ball Handling How-to Videos
- 12 Partner Noodle Skills How-to Videos
- 27 Super 70 Ball Skills How-to Videos
- 16 Floor Plate Skills How-to Videos
- 43 Gymnastics Skills How-to Videos
- 27 Scooter Skills How-to Videos
- Lesson Plans & Teacher skills list for each unit, identifying the appropriate progression of skills to be performed
- 6 Lesson Plans/Additional Activities
- 2 Teacher How-to videos and Teacher skills list for each lesson, identifying the progression of skills to be performed
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OBJECTIVE: Get back to the basics with this fast-paced, energetic, seek out and capture game where teamwork, perseverance, and memory are essential to being victorious. Basic Training is a cross-curricular game specifically designed to reinforce the learning and/or memorization of the alphabet, sight words, numbers, shapes, colors, and food groups. -
Concentration Stations! K-2 OBJECTIVE: Based on the classic matching card game of Concentration, Concentration Stations will help reinforce various challenge and manipulative skills to help students focus and concentrate. Google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_(card_game) to learn how to play the original game. -
In this packet, you will find a bunch of Field Day Water Games and Ideas for Physical Education that I've compiled and accumulated over the years. I use all of these games with K - 5th Grades. -
A frantic, action-packed game where teamwork, decisiveness, and communication skills are critical to overcoming the Food Court Frenzy. -
Here is an idea that the children will love (and don’t be surprised if some of your students make up a game that you want to try in class!). Let students select their own groups, which must have at least four to eight members. Inform each group that they must think of and agree on a unique game (never been done before in class) and that they must come up with a name, a set of rules, safety guidelines, instructions on how to play, and possible variations. Only one member for each group may go into the equipment room to get equipment for their game. If equipment is not being used, students must return it to its proper place before being issued any more equipment. Introduce each group’s game at the end of class or at the end of the week. Inform each group that their ideas may be graded and that the teacher may use some games in a future physical education class. At end of the week, each group demonstrates their game in front of the class. Be sure to take a picture of each champion group and post outside the gym to advocate and promote this unit to the other students. Gymnastics, Dance, and Games creations are a BIG DEAL at my school and the students really look forward to these units! -
After completing my gymnastics unit, I instruct students to form groups of at least 4-8. Explain that each group will be allowed 1-2 days to create their own gymnastics routine. Skills can be chosen from the previously learned traveling, gymnastics skills, and or stunts. Students will be given additional time to practice the day of the gymnastic routine performances. Each group will perform their routine for the class during the last half of class. Be sure to take a picture of each champion group and post outside the gym to advocate and promote this unit to the other students. Gymnastics, Dance, and Games creations are a BIG DEAL at my school and the students really look forward to these units! -
This bundle contains 69 Physical Education essential questions and 26 Vocabulary Words to be posted on my word wall in the gymnasium. Each EQ and Word Wall (WW) will be discussed and/or illustrated at some point during the physical education year. I felt that each of these EQs and vocabulary words should be incorporated into my curriculum and covered to ensure a balance of learning in my physical education class. I believe these EQs and words will make a significant difference in building students’ background knowledge and comprehension. Each EQ and Vocabulary Word has been typed up on its on page. All you have to do is print them out. -
The Physical Education Teacher Check Up or Assessment can be used as a formal or informal test to determine student comprehension/understanding of the skills and concepts covered during the school year and/or to help the physical education teacher determine strengths and weaknesses in his or her program. I personally use this Check Up to help me figure out areas where I need to go back and review, improve or revamp for the next school year. The file is in a Word Document so that you can manipulate it by modifying, adding or deleting questions/comments to meet your physical education objectives. -
OBJECTIVE: An invigorating, fast-paced scooter board game that will reinforce and improve communication teamwork, and sight word spelling skills. -
A fun and educational way to play bingo developed by J.D. Hughes. This cross curricula and active team game is suitable for use in classrooms, PE classes, and after school programs. Players earn the right to turn over a bingo chip by completing an activity and matching the correct capital with the corresponding state. Earn enough bingo chips and your team can win the game! State Lingo Bingo is an excellent game to reinforce and provide multiple opportunities to learn the 50 U.S. states and their capitals. The combination of map reading fundamentals, fitness, and teamwork forces teammates to communicate and strategize in order to complete their States or State Capitals Bingo Card faster than the opposing teams. -
Virtual Field Day
The Virtual Field Day is an online, alternative Pre-K through 8th grade field day that contains 12 Minute to Win it Challenges. These movement-based activities will provide your students with a fun, yet challenging opportunity to participate in a new type of field day experience. This resource offers a Virtual Field Day document, 12 challenge activities, student rules and video submission information, along with equipment needs, teacher notes and scoring suggestions for each challenge. You can simply show my videos and use my scores or recreate your own videos and scoring. You can download it in a Word document so that you can modify, cut and paste, and basically do what you need to fit your program's needs. Minute to Win it Challenges: A video will be posted to provide you with the rules, equipment needed and a demonstration of how to perform each challenge- Tennis Racket Challenge
- Rope Jump Challenge
- Frisbee Throw Challenge
- Rundown Challenge
- Basketball Shooting Challenge
- Marshmallow Move Challenge
- Penny Tower Challenge
- Bottle Flip Challenge
- Hoop in and out Challenge
- Wall Ball Challenge
- Grocery Bag Juggle Challenge
- Cartwheel Challenge
- Bonus: badges for every event that can be emailed