| Spice up your PE classes with innovative activity ideas from teachers working in the field! Learn how to create engaging activities for students that will get everyone involved. Discover new ways to use your existing equipment, how to set up games, and how a little change in routine can create a big impact on students during PE classes. |
Equipment should not prevent you from doing your job to the best of your ability. Whether you have no equipment or minimal equipment, you can still be a successful and effective teacher. Below are some ideas on how to keep your students moving and learning no matter your budget.
When a family or group of friends gather for a meal, they often sit around the table, share stories, laugh, and smile. When you gather around a parachute with your class, this has a similar feeling. In fact, this is probably the one activity when you can see the faces of each participant throughout the entire activity. This enables you to see every smile, enjoy the laughter, and hear the deafening screams as they shake the parachute!
A well-structured parachute lesson allows students to follow directions, work as a team, and have fun! And yes, they can get their heart rate up while shaking and giggling!
Roller skating is one of those units that my students look forward to every year. It doesn’t matter if it’s the first week of school. I’ll have kids coming up to me asking me, Mr. Graham when are we going to roller skate? And typically we do that at the end of January, so you know the enthusiasm is really high when they’re asking for it. They want to know when it’s going to take place at the beginning of the school year, and I really like that unit because it’s a break from more of my traditional teaching units, and it’s an opportunity for me to invite parents into the gym, which, to be honest, really gives many of them a perspective that may be very different from their own childhood PE experiences.
Nelson Mandela once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Schools are a microcosm of the real
Dynamic PE ASAP can provide your district with the ability to have a common curriculum, common language, common practice, and provide an equitable curriculum for all students.
Learn how Bill Casey incorporated SHAPE America’s health.moves.minds. program into his high school and how it ended up being an experience for our students that will benefit them for the rest of their lives.
Hi everyone, happy Random Acts of Kindness Week. On today’s PE Express podcast, I’ll share my thoughts on why implementing lessons around kindness and mindfulness in the middle of a growing mental-health crisis and pandemic is more important than ever and share some new resource is from the health. moves. minds. program that could be used during random acts of kindness week or anytime during the year.
1. Ricochet Ball
2. Ricochet Triple Ball
3. Drag’N Tails Dunk
4. Mobile Baseline
5. Mobile Fill Own
6. Ultimania Ball
7. Ultimate Basketball Hoops
“Do you believe in miracles? Yes!” This famous call by Al Michaels during the 1980 Winter Olympics is now 41 years ago. That call, from February 22, 1980, will go down as one of the greatest moments in sports.
1. Hula Hoop Horseshoe
2. KickPar
3. SyncroBall
4. Disc Golf—With Mobile Stands
5. Disc Golf—With Natural Goals
6. Team Launch Volleyball Set
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