Phys Ed
NASPE's Teacher Toolbox - NASPE’s Teacher Toolbox shares ideas for promoting your quality physical education, physical activity, or youth sports program. Every month will feature activity ideas that meet the national standards, elementary and secondary fitness calendars for you to send home with your students, bulletin board ideas, puzzles and games, information about the nation’s health observances, and the newest resource materials. (T)
Scavenger Hunts for Kids - With summer here and many kids taking a break from schooling, moms are looking for fun and educational activities to fill their kid's time. Scavenger Hunts for Kids is perfect because not only can the kids complete the hunt, older kids can set up the hunts for younger kids. Some of the downloads are scavenger hunts, others are creative group activities. There are activities for both inside and outside as well as holiday, school, travel, and reading activities. Be sure to read the Comments and Tips for the hunts because instructions may not be on the download itself. (Y, M, O, T)
Print Sports Awards.com - Welcome to the free web based printing service that will allow you to print out any sports award in just a few simple steps. You can use those awards for all official and unofficial competitions or gatherings you organize. (Y, M, O, T)
The President's Challenge Activity Log - You have to record your activities to earn awards in the President's Challenge. Your activity log makes that simple with convenient pull-down menus. Just select the date, a description that fits your activity, and the amount of time you spent. (Y, M, O, T)
How much exercise do you need? - Physical Activity for Everyone from the Center for Disease Control. Includes information on The President's Challenge. Beginning March 20, you can win awards for staying active - and track your progress along with kids across America. (Y, M, O, T)
Physical Fitness Guide for Kids and Teens - The following guides for physical fitness are provided by the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics: Fitness and Your 2-3 Year Old Fitness and Your 4-5 Year Old Fitness and Your 6-12 Year Old Fitness and Your 13-18 Year Old Physical Fitness, Sports and the School-Age Child (Y, M, O, T)
Daily Exercise Chart - Preschool lesson plans. (Y)
Happy Feet, Healthy Food Kids' Club - Happy Feet, Healthy Food Kids' Club is an after-school program. Its mission is to help children develop the love of everyday habits which include physical exercise and healthy eating. During each 10-week session (fall and spring), children keep track of their own progress through a journal "log-book" and also work to reach group goals. Great ideas and printable worksheets if you do not have a program in your area. (Y)
The President's Challenge - Get into the program by jumping rope. Playing catch. Or racing a friend. Even better, you can win awards for staying active - and track your progress along with kids across America. The more you keep at it, the more fun you'll have. (Y, M, O, T)
Move it! - Your body counts on you to be active to help strengthen your bones and build lean muscles. So stop sitting around and get moving!! Create your own Exercise calendar and print it out. (Y, M)
Fitness and Kids - Free downloads: -Kids physical fitness activity chart- Activity chart for kids -Blank chart to track your activity level Help track your activity level with your own activities. (Y, M)
Fitness Program - FREE Downloads: -Work Your Body: Fitness chart -Feed Your Body: Nutrition Chart -Daily/Weekly Nutrition Goals: (Y, M, O, T)
The President's Challenge - The President's Challenge is a program that encourages all Americans to make being active part of their everyday lives. No matter what your activity and fitness level, the President's Challenge can help motivate you to improve. (Y, M, O, T)
Teach Circus.com - This site is dedicated to helping teachers, recreation professionals, and performers give effective instruction in Circus Arts. Circus Arts are a valuable part of many Physical Education and Recreation programs. Because these skills are so novel, challenging, and fun, students of all ages are highly motivated to practice and achieve. Circus Arts are equally good as individual, partner, and group activities. Many students who do not enjoy traditional sports and games often excel at Circus Arts. Circus skills require concentration, patience, timing, tracking skills, gross motor coordination, and fine motor coordination. (Y, M, O, T)
Debbie's Chinese Juggling Sticks - Learning to play Juggling Sticks gives the player a sense of control that comes from mastering something that is challenging and fun. Other benefits include: developing concentration, eye-hand coordination and the stress relief that comes from rhythmic and focused movement. They are also a good toy for solitary or noncompetitive interactive play. (Y,M)
How to Devil Stick - Devil stick manipulation is a form of gyroscopic juggling, or equilibristics and is generally considered to be one of the 'circus arts'. The name, "Devil Stick" most likely comes from a confusion of 'diabolo' (to toss across) with 'diablo', or devil. Sometimes called "devil-sticking" other terms often used are: "twirling", "sticking" and "stick juggling". (Y, M, O, T)
Juggling - Ancient Egyptian tomb paintings show people juggling. Juggling develops hand-eye coordination and keeps the kids amused for hours. Give it a try! (Y, M, O, T)
How to Juggle - (Y, M, O, T)
I Can Juggle Kids Page - Take a ride through the world of Juggling: Juggling Information Service, International Jugglers Association, Juggling Festivals, Juggling Help, Juggling Software, Interviews with Jugglers, A Juggling Success Story, and the Juggling Hall of Fame (Y, M, O, T)
JUGGLING - From Teachcircus.com (Y, M, O, T)
Clown Ministry - A web site dedicated to the history and performance of clowning, with an emphasis on clown ministry. There's a free tutorial on starting clowning, articles on topics such as the Clown Commandments, dozens of clown skits free for you to use, biographies of famous clowns (including Charlie Chaplin, Red Skelton, Bob Bell, WGN-TV's Bozo the Clown, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Emmett Kelly, Bob Keeshan, The Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges, and many others), reviews of books and movies on clowning, and much more. (Y, M, O, T)
PE Basketball Lesson Plan - A sixty minute lesson to improve basketball dribbling skills (Y,M)
Children and Fitness - This article from Bob Jones University Press gives a good summary of physical education expectations for each age level as well as a list of activity ideas (Y, M, O, T)
KidsHealth - Full of excellent articles that can be reviewed by mom before using; because this is a secular site, not all content is useful to Christians who choose to teach their children to respond in a wise way (ex. an article on how to deal with bullying does not (T)
PE Central Challenge - The challenge is designed to motivate 4th and 5th graders in PE, but it may be used by homeschoolers for any appropriate skill level. The goal is to master motor skills through the ongoing application of six different physical activities. Small lapel type (Y,M,T)
PE Lesson Plan and Activity Page - - Start with the ABC's of PE, found under Lesson Plans, and take off from there. There is too much to list in this small space, but if you want the big list, click on the Overview link & see the hundreds of lesson plans, activities, and sports rules all lis (T)
Jump into the story - Children will learn how they can use their bodies to act out situations or to tell a story. For younger and middle students (Y,M)
Dairy Council of CA - Online interactive games for everyone; free resources for educators in CA (T)
Nutrition Explorations - A resource from the National Dairy Council (T)
Recreational (Ocean) Diving - Students will explore the effects that the ocean has on divers as well as the effects that divers have on the ocean. Students will also learn math through the perspective of diving. Grades 7-9. (M,O)