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OBJECTIVE: To reinforce the skills of throwing, catching, accuracy, cooperation, hand-eye coordination, and teamwork in a time where the future of physical education is a stake. SCENARIO: The future of physical education is at stake because the FBI has informed all PE teachers to be on alert for a mysterious villain known as the “sedentary terrorist”. The sedentary terrorist is against kids getting active and having fun, threatening to destroy the gymnasiums all over the world. I entered our gym this morning and found what appears to be explosives lying everywhere. I need your help! In order to save our gym from destruction and losing our physical education program, we must work together to disarm all of the explosives and defeat the evil, sedentary terrorist. -
To elevate dance appreciation through unique, fun, and exciting rhythmic dance skills with the attempt to alleviating any preconceived negative feelings concerning dance. Note: All dance steps use an 8 or 16 count and L = Left and R = Right. The songs selected (artist is in parenthesis by the dance title) for the dances are not required to perform each dance! All songs can be purchased online at sites such as www.apple.com/itunes or other music sites. The teacher must determine what is appropriate for his or her classes. Simply choose a fun, upbeat song with a similar beat to the song listed beside the dance title if the song cannot be found or is considered inappropriate for your class. In some cases, the “radio” version of a song should be downloaded or purchased. -
Objective: Double or Nothing combines the strategy and luck game of Rock, Paper, and Scissors with the cardiovascular endurance activity of jogging to encourage students to run for fun with the anticipation of possibly having the chance of being a Double or Nothing Champion. -
OBJECTIVE: Dragster Blaster is a unique, exhilarating game that originated from the game “Polo Derby” from my first book, No Standing Around in My Gym: Creative Lesson Plans, Games, and Teaching Tips for Elementary Physical Education, Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc., October of 2002. In this bizarre game of building and driving a dragster, students will improve their fitness and cardiovascular endurance, offensive and defensive strategies, teamwork, and throwing accuracy. -
OBJECTIVE: The Oxford Dictionary defines ecstatic as feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement. The game of EcSTATIC will illicit joyful excitement as students race to complete the bowling and static balance challenges. AND as a bonus, holding static poses is great for building core strength! -
OBJECTIVE: EcSTATIC Bowling is the advanced and more competitive version from the original game of EcSTATIC. Teams will race to complete the cooperative bowling and static balance challenges. AND as a bonus, holding static poses is great for building core strength! -
To elevate dance appreciation through unique, fun, and exciting rhythmic dance skills with the attempt to alleviating any preconceived negative feelings concerning dance. -
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. -
Objective: This game allows students to practice honesty, fairness, honorable sporting behavior, and fitness skills. Fitness War, derived from the classic card game of War, is an energetic and exciting game, requiring a little strategy and a lot of luck. Ultimately, perseverance makes the difference. -
What you get with your purchase of my eBook flash drive: A flash drive full of what I have created over the last 32+ years as an elementary physical education teacher…
- No Standing Around in My Gym: Lesson Plans, Games, & Tips for Physical Education eBook (151 pages)
- PE2theMax: Maximize Skills, Participation, Teamwork, and Fun eBook (100 pages)
- Pe2theMax II: Stepping up the “Game” in Physical Education eBook (93 pages)
- PE²: Double the Physical + Double the Education = Double the Fun eBook (95 pages)
- HyPEd Up! Taking Physical Education Games to the Next Level! eBook (120 pages)
- HyPEd Up II! Physical Education Games to the Max! eBook (120 pages)
- PE2theMax’s Greatest Hits: Games Created to Maximize Skills, Participation, Teamwork, and Fun eBook (145 pages)
- 75 printable essential questions and word wall signs
- K-5 Lesson Plan Scope
- Color artwork templates in pdf format to use and/or post on the wall of many of my most popular games:
- Stay Composed Posters
- cooPEration Challenges
- Crack the Code Templates
- Dice Daze
- Dynamic Duo Challenges
- EcSTATIC Poses A & B
- Guess Who Pirates & Monsters
- NBAced It
- PaceMaker II Art
- Trick of Treasure
- What’s in Your Piggy Bank Coins and Money art
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Flip for It if you want a chance to earn some cash for your team. Students will eagerly improve their cardiovascular fitness in this fun, high-energy jogging/exercise game, while earning coins for their team. -
A frantic, action-packed game where teamwork, decisiveness, and communication skills are critical to overcoming the Food Court Frenzy. -
Objective: Students will develop and improve Frisbee manipulation skills of visual tracking, accuracy, control, throwing, and catching. Frisbee Frenzy utilizes various positions to provide teammates multiple opportunities to communicate and elicit teamwork and strategy to become team champions. -
Students will develop and improve Frisbee manipulation skills of visual tracking, accuracy, control, throwing, and catching. Frisbee Smack Down utilizes various positions to provide teammates multiple opportunities to communicate and elicit teamwork and strategy to become team champions. -
Objective: Students will explore the various ways to develop and improve balloon manipulation skills such as visual tracking, accuracy, control, tapping, catching, right- and left-handed manipulation, and socialization skills through the use of balloons. -
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! -
OBJECTIVE: Game Time is an excellent, movement-based game for Physical Education and for classroom teachers to reinforce and provide multiple opportunities to learn how to read clocks, convert times, and determine start and end times using word problems. The combination of clock reading fundamentals, fitness, and teamwork forces teammates to communicate and strategize in order to complete their Game Time Task Sheets faster than the opposing teams. -
Gee Whiz is a rock, paper, and scissors-like game that encourages students to implement strategy, honesty, fairness, and honorable sporting behavior, while constantly making laugh out loud, goofy faces and gestures. -
Students will practice and improve kicking and soccer-style dribbling, defensive and offensive strategy, and cardiovascular endurance in the throwback, Pac Man-like game of Gobble, Gobble. -
From my book PE2theMax II: Stepping up the “Game” in Physical Education, in the game of Going Cuckoo, students must cooperatively and quickly work together to get all of the misplaced Cuckoo eggs safely to their mother’s nest, while reinforcing throwing, catching, hand-eye coordination, and cardiovascular fitness. Scenario: There are two common kinds of cuckoos in North America, the blue-billed cuckoo and the red-billed cuckoo. Bird watchers have observed and learned that cuckoos do not like to care for their young. The sad truth is that cuckoos actually lay their eggs in another bird’s nest and leave them to be hatched and cared for by another bird. To avoid the risk of extinc- tion, a group of bird watchers have decided to team up and find the misplaced cuckoo eggs and safely transfer all the fragile eggs to their natural mother’s nest.
