PhysEd
P739p
1996

Parachute Games by Todd Strong and Dale LeFevre

With 60 parachute games and 120 accompanying photos, this book is a fresh source of ideas for Elementary and Middle School physical educators and classroom teachers. You will enjoy watching the students as they learn cooperation, team building skills, and use their imaginations to create new ways to use the parachute to fit them. Note: A copy of this book can be found in the General Reference section of the Library.

Ready-to-Use P.E. Activities for Grade K-9 by Joanne M. Landy and Maxwell J. Landy

Over 500 ready-to-use fitness-oriented activities and games to help you prepare and teach interesting fun-packed physical education lessons tailored to your students' specific developmental needs.

Basic Skills Through Sports Grade 5 by Steve Schneider

This book takes basic sports like baseball, football, basketball, soccer, ice hockey, and tennis and gives teachers ideas of how to teach across the curriculum using sports to keep the students interested in the learning process. Reproducibles are included.

A Moving Experience: Dance for Lovers of Children and the Child Within by Teresa Benzwie, Ed.D.

A treasure for any teacher, this book integrates all areas of the classroom curriculum with movement and feeling... establishes a learning environment where children can feel and support eacher other. Applicable to all ages.

Kids in Motion: A Creative Movement and Song Book by Julie Weissman

A complete program of physical fitness and music for children, ages 3-9. Features exercises that are fun, creative movement games, and songs arranged in simple melody form. Using this book children develop strength, flexibility, and endurance, mind and body coordination, imagination and creativity, listening and language skills and much more. Note: CD is available in the Curriculum Library.

Kick the Can and Over 800 Other Active Games and Sports for All Ages by Darvin A. Hindman

Tag games, dodgeball, target games, baseball, active games, less active games and much more. This book of outdoor games has some thing for everyone.

GV443
.H47
1995

Fitness For Children by Curt Hinson

Take the children on the road to health and fitness with 45 activities, 80 exercises, and 40 homework assignments listed in this book.

GV745
.D38
1998

Creative Physical Activities and Equipment: Building a Quality Program on a Shoestring Budget by Bev Davidon

This book includes strategies for making equipment using in-expensive, readily available material and even trash. set up the paper plate olympics and have events such as crab races and high jump.

Playground Sports: A Book of Ball Games by Marilyn Gould

Remember your playground days... This book will jog your memory with games that can help students make friends, stay in shape, and most important of all - have fun.

Game Skills: A Fun Approach to Learning Sport Skills by Teresa B. Carlson and STephnie J. Manrahan

A book with a range of activities and games that are formulated to develop sport-specific skills and includes other considerations like benefits, safety, and age appropriateness.

Fitness Fun: 85 Games and Activities For Children by Emily R. Foster, Karyn Hartinger, and Katherine Smith

A book with warm-up activities, quick activities, and main activities that help students develop cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength endurance, and flexibility.

Teaching the Nuts and Bolts of Physical Education: Building Basic Movement Skills by A. Vonnie Colvin, et, all.

Do you have students who are still struggling with the basic skills needed to actively participate in P.E.? This is the book for you with lesson plans that help teach them locomotor skills such as throwing, catching dribbling, passing, hitting, and punting that can be used for a lifetime of enjoyment.

Totline July/August 2000 p.24-29
Come celebrate the summer olympics with 5 days of fun across the curriculum. Each day students will learn art, sing songs, explore movement through games, and make an international snack that will end the week with them begging for more. Reproducible awards for all participants.

CopyCat Sept/Oct 2000 p. 13-21
Calling all Jackeroos and Jilleroos...get ready for the summer games of Outback Olympics. Some of the events included are the Boomerang Throw, Crocodile Road Race, Koala Climb, and much more to look forward to. Reproducibles include a t-shirt pattern as well as directions for designing t-shirts, event sign patterns, boomerang necklace, boomerang throw pattern, and medals for each of the events that the comdents complete.

Schooldays Jan/Feb 2000 p. 7
Make the equipment yourself for P.E. activities. Features a homemade parachute made out of a bed sheet, balloon bounce made using a piece of cardboard, and scoop the ball made with a plastic bottle.

Creative Classroom August 2000 p. 47-56
Get the school year off to a great start with this integrative unit full of activities on olympics and sportsmanship.

The New Good Apple Newspaper March/April 1997 p. 26-28
"The Road to the Superbowl" is an integrative approach using football statistics to teach math and some vocabulary.

My Family and Me by Phoebe Fankind and Elizabeth Stenson

"The Baseball Player" can be used to teach acceptance and sportsmanship. It is a poem about a boy who picks his brother to be on his team even though he is not very good at baseball.

Days of Adventure by Lyn Swanson-Natsues and illustrated by Joy Dunn Keenan

This story is about how little kids pretend that ordinary items around them are tools for adventure. Example: brooms are horses, the chairs are the school bus. Teach children to be creative in Physical Education class.

The Ants Go Marching illistrations by Alan and Lea Daniel

Using this song and poem, teachers can get their students out marching and having a good time as they get their exercise. Variation: pick a student to choose movement when ants stop. Do movement and move on counting and marching. Come back in the classroom and make ant snacks with celery, Peanut butter, and raisins.

Bigbooks
E26
1990
rb

The Eensy, Weensy Spider illistrations by Alan Daniel

Teach your students the song first, then do all the actions according to the words of the song. Get up and get all of the wiggles out. Can be used as a warm-up activity for physical education class. the book can be used across the curriculum to teach movement, rhythm and science, language arts, and art. Look on the back page of the book for more ideas.

Sidewalk Games Around the Word by Arlene Erlbach

Step-by-step instructions will show you how to play games from 26 different countries. Just think, while you are playing a game from this book other children, far across the globe, might be playing the very same game.

Hopscotch Around the World by Mary D. Lankford

Hopscotch has been played throughout history in many countries around the world. This book explores a variety of playing gtyles and gives a short history lesson about each country. It also shows that there is more than one way of doing something in life.

Everybody's a Winner: A Kid's Guide to New Sports and Fitness by Tom Schneider

This book brings out a new perspective on winning and losing. It turns out that winning might have more to do with what you learn than it does with ribbons or prizes or being the best. Includes such games a new frisbee, infinity volleyball, and fitness tips that will keep you in shape, having fun, and enjoying the good things that life has to offer.

Kids in Motion Music by Greg Scelsa and Steve Millang

This CD has 14 songs on it that go with creativity in movement and the book by the same title found in the Curriculum Reference book section of this pathfinder.

Gold Medal Math

This game is a cross curricular approach to linking physical education with math using the olympics. Sudents answer questions correctly and take home the gold.

Now over 350 games that can be searched out according to age group and desired skills that are the focus of the activity. Also features a cross-curricular, holiday, and random game section and lesson plan links.

http://www.geocities.com/sissio/physical_education.html

You'll go sporty with this site designed to provide teachers with ideas, activities, and games. Features assessment ideas, educational links, and parachuting activities.

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Jump Rope

Bean Bags
Teachers can use these to teach the students to follow directions and throwing skills.

Co-oper Blanket
This is a big, stretchy blanket which can fit up to 15 children at a time. It's strength and elasticity promotes group cohesion, trust, individual balance, and risk taking. Included in the box is an activity guide to help you get ideas for using the blanket. Note: Video is available in the Curriculum Library.

Parachute
Parachute play promotes cooperation, awareness of classmates, imagination, and creativity. Using this tool, players of different abilities, sixes, and ages can play together. Includes: beach ball, frog bean bags, bouncy balls, and plastic balls.