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Students will be given numerous opportunities to practice and reinforce ball manipulative skills associated with dribbling, tossing, catching and ball control. -
Scooter Scavenger is an invigorating Scooter board game that improves teamwork, strategy, and counting skills. There are many exciting variations in this fast-paced scooter game! -
A prerequisite to Polo Derby and Dragster Blaster, Let’s Go Cruising is a great activity for improving fitness while reinforcing the skills of communication, teamwork and a child’s imagination. -
Objective: a great cardiovascular game that not only improves hand-eye coordination, throwing, catching, and aiming skills, but also introduces and reinforces young children to teamwork, cooperative, and strategizing skills. This game comes from my first book, No Standing Around in My Gym. -
Objective: The dice game of Blockheads provides a fun, high-energy outlet for students to reinforce fitness skills and practice number recognition, number comparisons, and be able to create and solve various subtraction problems. -
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 game of Hula Hut Relay instills and improves initiative, problem solving, teamwork, and communication skills. Learning how to build the Hula Hut is a great prerequisite to the game of Hula Hut Throw Down. -
OBJECTIVE: Watch as each team races to “stash their cash” in this fun, competitive game that provides a great way to introduce money recognition and addition, while integrating fitness and perseverance. -
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. -
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: Let ‘em Roll, derived from the game of EcSTATIC Bowling is a high energy target-based game where cooperation, speed and accuracy are essential to be successful. Teams will race to complete the various target and level challenges. -
OBJECTIVE: Derived from the original game of Pace Maker (PE2theMax by J.D. Hughes, 2005), the outrageously aerobic game of Pace Maker II reinforces the concept of pacing and its importance in physical activity, while introducing and reinforcing various locomotor skills. -
OBJECTIVE: Quick Six is an aerobic-based game to be introduced as a fun, prerequisite to the PACER test or as a great activity to get students jogging. Teams must demonstrate persistence, perseverance and have a little luck in order to become the Quick Six champions. -
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. -
This whacky, action-packed teamwork game reinforces spatial awareness, throwing for accuracy, eye-hand coordination, communication, and perseverance. BullsEye will test each student’s accuracy by challenging them to hit various student-created bullseyes to achieve and earn multiple cash prizes. -
What’s in Your Piggy Bank is a game that was designed to reinforce fitness while introducing and/or reinforcing money (coins and bills) recognition and money values. -
OBJECTIVE: Alpha-Bet You Can throw or roll a ball to knock over a bowling pin is a fun, fitness-based game that will allow students the opportunity to practice and develop ball manipulation and throwing/rolling for accuracy. Alpha-Bet You Can also provides a great way to introduce alphabet letter and money recognition and the practice of counting money. A great game to follow up to Alpha-Bet You Can is the game Making Moolah. -
OBJECTIVE: It’s sometimes “Risky Business” trying to make money in today’s society, but with some hard work and some potential low or high risk investments, you can really make it big! The game of Risky Business is a cooperative challenge that provides a great way to introduce money recognition and counting money, while integrating running and fitness in the attempt to enhance persistence, teamwork, and camaraderie. -
OBJECTIVE: The game of Cold Hard Cash is a cooperative challenge that provides a great way to introduce counting money, while integrating multiple fitness activities in the attempt to enhance persistence, teamwork, and camaraderie. -
One of the themes I try to establish early in my own class is accountability. That way, students can develop self-responsibility and learn to use a tool to sort out problems for themselves. The problem-solving area is a successful behavior management strategy that places the responsibility of problem solving right in the students’ hands.
