This lesson will help to enhance the self-esteem of the students by focusing on each child's individual differences.
This lesson will give students the ability to succeed at one of the most important skills of basketball. This will be interesting, easy, and fun to learn.
This lesson introduces students to the proper technique of shooting the basketball.
This lesson will help students learn the basics of an approach, various vaults, and landing techniques.
Bibliotherapy and critical literacy are two ways to use books to help children better understand themselves, others, and the world around them. This article explains both strategies and provides resources for selecting appropriate books.
Students will enjoy reading about a town where no one ever goes hungry because the sky provides food while learning about weather, healthy and unhealthy foods, and creating a database.
Students learn color theory by exploring color mixing. Students will use overlapping to show simple perspective in their picture.
From classroom organization to warm-up procedures, one physical education teacher provides a blueprint for a structured physical education program.
Students learn to identify different body parts and how they move. They explore moving and using these parts in general and personal space.
Students will refine their basic skills of basketball by participating in a variety of basketball stations.
After this lesson, student should be aware of four critical components of dribbling a ball (on the side, no higher than waist, pushing the ball down, and looking up) and be able to dribble a ball applying at least three of them.
Students will learn and demonstrate effective free throw shooting skills: proper hand placement, balance, stance, and focusing eyesight on the target (basketball goal and rim).
Students will research nutritional guides from local fast food restaurants. Based on this research, students will compare menus for nutritional values and create healthy and unhealthy meal advertisement posters.
This lesson introduces fun cardiovascular exercises that raise the heart rate.
The lesson includes a variety of activities for strength, endurance, and flexibility with the use of a jumpstick. Intervals of jogging and exercises of major muscle groups include an element of fun. The teacher's leading role adds intensity and excitement to these activities.
Using frog beanbags, students will demonstrate skill components of the underhand toss.
The activities will help the student identify, describe, and classify fruits and vegetables, and learn how each grows.
This lesson teaches the importance of washing hands to reduce the spread of germs. In this lesson, students will see mold develop over time on a potato as the result of handling the potato with dirty hands.
This lesson focuses on how the foods we eat affect our bodies in both beneficial and harmful ways. Students will learn that grains provide energy; vegetables are needed for healthy skin, hair and eyes; fruits help the body heal, milk builds strong bones and teeth; meat builds muscle and gives strength; and sweets, fats, and oils are high in calories and give few vitamins and minerals and do little to help our bodies grow.
Students must move very quickly to try to get three balls in their hoop. This game can be played by grades one through four and may be played by large groups (30-50). This game requires students to use problem solving skills while getting a great workout.
