Let’s Get Active!
Physical Activity Unit
(This unit is designed to reinforce Physical Activity and to help the students learn and understand that being physically active is more than just exercising. The purpose is to get the students up and moving whether they are in PE at school or at home.)
Standard 3:
The physically literate individual achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness. (Psychomotor Domain)
“I Can Statement:” I can show a physically active lifestyle.
Essential Question: Why is it important to be physically active every day?
Lessons | Games/Activities | Description of Games/Activities |
Lesson 1 - Introduction of Physical Activity and what is means to be Physically Active
| “Chase Big Blue” | - Use a Blue Hula-Hoop (or any color you choose)
- Divide the students into teams
- The teacher will roll the Blue Hula-Hoop forward
- Students will take turns from each team to try and catch the hula-hoop before it falls to the ground
- Students get one point for their team is they catch the hula-hoop before it falls
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Lesson 2 Review of Being Physically Active - Provide several examples of students being physically active and students not being physically active
| “Grab the Beanbag” | - You will need 4 hula-hoops and 2 beanbags
- Divide the students in to teams.
- Give each student a number
- The teacher will call out a number
- When the student’s number is called, he or she has to run and grab the beanbag out of one hula-hoop and put it in the other hula-hoop
- Students score one point for being the first to transfer the beanbag from one hula-hoop to another.
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Lesson 3 Review of Being Physically Active - Have students list ways they can be physically active at home
| “Exercise Can Be FUN!” | - For this lesson, the students will complete several exercises together as a group.
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Lesson 4 Review of Being Physically Active - Have students tell one way they can be physically active on a rainy day
| “Snatch and Shoot” | - You will need 2 hula-hoops and 2 basketballs
- Divide the students into teams
- Give each student a number
- The teacher will call out a number
- When the student’s number is called, he or she must run and get their basketball out of the hula-hoop and try and make a basket
- Scoring: The first student to make a basket in the goal gets the point. The first student to put the basketball back in their hula-hoop gets 1 point. (Baskets are worth 1 point. If they shoot a 3 point shot, they get 3 points.
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Lesson 5 Review of Being Physically Active - Have students tell their favorite way to be physically active in PE
| “Relay Race” | - Divide the students in to teams
- The students will participate in a relay race against the other team.
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Lesson 6 Review of Being Physically Active - Have students tell their favorite way to be physically active at home
| “Freeze Dance” | - Select some music
- The students will dance while the music is playing
- When the music stops, the students must freeze in their spot.
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Assessment - Informal observations of students participating in PE class
- Quiz to check understanding of being physically active or not being physically active
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