Subject(s): P.E. & Health Grades(s): Grades 4-5

Games & Relay Races:

• Here is a physical education game idea called “Steal The Ball”
• This is a PE game idea for Frizbee Softball
• This PE Kickball idea to be used with math concepts
• Here are several quick & easy PE games designed for the non-athletic teacher
• Here’s a fall Pie Eater Tag game idea
• This fun hands-on lesson teaches students Spanish language and culture as they improve their Baleros skills.
• Jingle Bell Basketball and Get the Candy Cane are just two of these holiday PE ideas
• “What time is it, Mr. Fox?” is a listening, counting, and running game
• This musical chairs type of game improves student’s dribbling skills
• Big Bear Tag is an idea for practicing locomotor activities

• “Ghouls and Goblins” is a clever Halloween tag game idea
• The “Clean Your Room Game” involves 2 teams keeping their half of the gym clean of their opponent’s balls
• “Snowball” is a dodgeball game variation idea
• In this cooperative learning game, two hungry snakes of students race to devour bean bags, etc.
• This is a well developed jumping rope lesson
• “Double Kickball” is twice as fun as kickball
• “Tailball” is basketball using a tennis ball with an attached tail
• This highly adaptable obstacle relay game enhances team spirit and sportsmanship
• Here is a simply wonderful elimination nerfball game with twists
• The object of “Mad Dog Kickball” is to keep everybody moving
• “Sharks and Minnows” is a simple tag game idea
• In “Immunity Kickball,” everyone gets a turn every time
• This game is called “Triple Crown Baseball”
• “Scooter Basketball” uses scooters and hula hoops
• This cooperative learning game lesson includes Yale Lock Tag and Alaska Ball
• This lesson provides throwing instruction and related games
• “Quick Sand” is a hop-on-spots game
• This “nutty” version of Capture the Flag uses squirrels and hawks
• This train-themed lesson assesses dodging, chasing, and fleeing skills
• Here is a relay race idea for learning how to spell the names of holidays
• This “Soccer Tunnel Tag” idea exercises dribbling, kicking, chasing, fleeing, and basic locomotor skills
• “Capture the Lion” is a team tag game using running, skipping, walking, seeking and capturing skills
• “Knights of the Round Relay” is a medieval themed warm-up idea
• This “Tennis Ball Reaction Game” could also be titled “Extreme Two-Square”
• Try “Parachute Races” for a unique muscular strength and endurance training activity
• “Slider” is a less violent dodgeball game with Frisbee flicks, underhand throwing and cardio activities
• In this team-building game, squad members use cooperation skills to island hop their way to Treasure Island
• The objective of “Mad Dog Baseball” is to keep the infield and outfield in motion
• Students practice throwing and catching a Frisbee, then quickly dressing up, because this is the “Late for School” game
• Here are four steps to a successful overhand throw and a game to practice them with
• Use these rolling skate games with the moving stool, skate ball, power wings and scooter to enliven your curriculum

Health & Fitness:

• This is a Physical Education Lesson that I wrote that uses jumping ropes
• This is a good plan on Aerobics For Kids
• This Health plan is on the Food Pyramid and involves a fun game
• Here’s a well-developed “Fitness Monopoly” Game
• A Jump Rope Fitness activity called Skipping for Aerobics and Dance
• Here’s a “Dental Health Web Tour” complete with Worksheet
• Here is an idea that gets students talking about growing up
• There should be no other name for this fitness lesson except “pure fun”
• “I see” is a very effective warm-up exercise idea
• This is a beginning ballet lesson idea
• Students play a “Simon Says Name That Bone” game in this lesson
• “Functions of the skeletal system” is the topic of this lesson
• This sticker book idea promotes healthy eating
• Here students swim to “Healthy Island” to get items for their food pyramid
• This food pyramid health lesson culminates with a nutritious “Pyramid Pizza Party”
• This is a central nervous system and five senses lesson
• This LearntobeHealthy.org “mystery” lesson focuses on the accumulation of tar in the lungs from smoking
• “Transformation Information 101″ is an introduction to the topic of puberty from LearntobeHealthy.org
• Here LearntobeHealthy.com provides us with a food pyramid card game activity
• Here is an activity lesson on the various ways people communicate
• “Camels and Crabs” is a muscular strength and endurance activity
• “The Skin You’re In” educates girls about eating disorders and how to have a positive body image
• This is a simple and very effective blood type compatibility demonstration
• Here are ten healthy rules for back-to-school success
• 5th Graders campaign here to prevent obesity and promote healthy school meal choices
• Students create long-term “Goal Clocks” in this lesson
• If it walks like a duck… or a crab, bear, deer or bunny, it must be a… student doing “Animal Warm-Ups”
• Students take a “trip to the park” in this applied movement story
• These are physical fitness tests
• Students use technology resources here to compare fat, sugar and calorie content of two restaurant meals in graph and table form
• These physical fitness tests measure curl-ups per minute, sit & reach distance, total push-ups, running endurance and BMI

Sports:

• This is a basketball lesson
• This ultimate football game idea gets students used to throwing and catching a football with a defender
• This lesson plan is on soccer relay races
• “Soccer Touch Ball” teaches dribbling skills
• In this soccer lead-up activity lesson, students practice kicking and controlling a soccer ball
• Silly Soccer introduces the sport safely and simply with beach balls
• Here students plant, putter, and push their inside of foot soccer passing skills
• “Dream Ring Mayhem” engages student’s accuracy with soccer ball punting, kicking, and dribbling
• These great balloon volleyball lesson activities offer plenty of volleying and striking practice
• Students compete in modified biathlon, floor hockey, luge, and figure skating station events here
• Here students work on dribbling skills while dancing the cha-cha slide
• If you play kickball in school, here’s a new version called “Krazy Kickball”
• The basic skills of handball are practiced here through soccer and basketball exercises
• Students learn and practice overhead handball passing skills in this lesson
• These lesson activities work on volleying and dribbling skills
• This lesson teaches how to perform an underhand volleyball serve

Other / Multiple Topics:

• A lesson to teach how students can use their Bodies to Represent different Objects
• This is an article about the amount of physical activity in today’s PE classes
• Here’s another article, this one on improving Physical Education
• This Harry Potter Quidditch Game is a great way to get students interested in PE!
• Is choosing teams causing problems? Here’s a brief idea for a solution
• Here is a thematic idea for picking teams
• This lesson includes many activities for practicing the skills of jumping and landing
• This psychomotor Haunted Maze is a Halloween team building activity
• This is a packet for a K-6 Olympic Opening Ceremonies and Game Day event
• Here is a review day or substitute teacher activity idea
• This is an empowering Self Control Quiz for teens
• This is a lesson on proper throwing and catching techniques
• This presentation on recognizing and responding to bullying involves skits and role-playing
• This is a sequencing relay game
• Use this “Open Day Template” as a roadmap to a great Spring Field Day

Art Connections:

• Here’s a Craft idea to create neat Juggling Balls for use in PE!

Language Arts Connections:

• This lesson is on Poetry and Teamwork, using a Poem from Chicken Soup for the Child’s Soul
• This Spelling Relay Game could be used in PE and a variety of grade levels
• Here’s a lesson that gets your students to “Jump” into a Story
• Here’s a fun game idea called “Vocabulary Steal The Bacon”
• Kinesthetic Learning is used in this lesson to build Reading Comprehension through Kickball
• Instead of “write the spelling words 10 times each”, why not try this Jumping Jack Spelling Bee idea?
• Here students use the shuttle run while reviewing for a spelling test
• This fun idea combines weekly vocabulary words and movement

Math Connections:

• This fun idea involves throwing balls into divided boxes to determine numbers to add (integrates PE)
• This idea has students hopping to answer math problems
• Jump-O-Math is a game idea that combines hopscotch, counting, and addition
• This is a simple, but fun, PE Math Game
• Here group members throw a softball like a shot put and the averaged length is calculated
• In the “Bound-and-Round” game, students use physical activities to retrieve and round numbers
• This “Mardi Gras Tokens” agility game motivates students to improve their multiplication and teamwork skills while improving cardio performance

Music Connections:

• This is an idea for a Music version of “Tag” to help learn Instruments and their Types
• In this “delightfully fun” but challenging lesson, students “Step-Clap-Kick” quarter note/rest rhythms
• This marching in time lesson also teaches left-right, left-right…
• Using a jump rope rhyme is an effective idea to teach note values
• Music Theory Basketball is played here
• In this game, students use their bodies to represent rhythms
  li>The musical components of college fight songs are compared in this lesson

Science Connections:

• Here is a fun physics idea for predicting and comparing the bounce of various sports balls
• This lesson on Lungs is called the “Breathing Machine”
• This is a user submitted revision of “The Breathing Machine”
• In “All the Fish in the Sea,” students cross the ocean while avoiding obstacles
• This is a worksheet on the parts of an eye
• This is a well-developed lesson on good/bad bacteria and the proper way to wash hands

Social Studies Connections:

• A lesson on survival when stranded
• This lesson on the Olympics includes a look at the countries’ backgrounds
• Dodgeball War is a great game to play while studying the U.S. Revolutionary or Civil War
• This Independence Day web hunt encourages students to have a healthy Independence Day celebration