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10 Pin Knockdown

Posted by: Greg Schmitz

Description: The object of the game is to knock down all 10 pins on the other side of the playing area. The students are divided up into 2 teams and must stay on their half of the playing area. Great game for all elementary levels.

Keywords: dodgeball, elementary, game, guarding, kicking, Pins, rolling, throwing

Bucket Head

Posted by: Sean Warren

Description: Elementary Activity

Keywords: Buckets, Elementary, quick activities, Scooters

Tennis 101

Posted by: melissa jackson

Description: elementary basic tennis skills

Keywords: elementary, school, skills, tennis, USTA

The Wanderer-Line Dance

Posted by: Michael Wagner

Description: Mike Wagner is having fun and a few laughs teaching a great folk dance to a few students and their instructor. I think the dance was initially taught by John Hichwa at a "Devotion to Motion" workshop in Minnesota. Great line dance for 2nd grade on up.

Keywords: dance, Dion, elementary dance., line dance, rhythmical, rhythms, wanderer

Agadoo Folk Dance

Posted by: Michael Wagner

Description: Agadoo is one of the best children's dances out there. Don Glover's favorite as you can tell. "Push pinapple, shake the tree". K-6 students constantly ask for a repeat of this activity.

Keywords: agadoo, dance, elementary, folk dance, rhythms.

Rosie's Slap-Folk Dance

Posted by: Michael Wagner

Description: Rosie's Slap is a great line dance for any age. It is a dance played to a popular song "UpTown Girl". Mike Wagner is having fun teaching this dance to a few college students and their teacher, Don Glover. There are a few laughs.

Keywords: elementary dance, folk dance, line dance, music, rhythm, rhythmical, rosie' slap

Hula War

Posted by: Shannon King

Description: A very fun Hula Hoop game. Divide your class into squad lines, send half to the front of the gym and half to the back. Each squad has one hula hoop to share. Start half of the hula hoop in the front of the gym and half at the back. Place attacker hula hoops in the middle. Students try to make it across the gym floor without losing control of their hoop, and must move in a forward motion only. Attackers can move anywhere in the gym and try to mess up other students by hitting their hoops together. If a student loses control, their turn is over and they have to give the hoop to the next person in line.

Keywords: Elementary, Hula Games, Hula Hoops

Powerball (Pow'R Ball)

Posted by: Michael Wagner

Description: Powerball is a whole class activity. It is interdisciplinary in nature. Letters and numbers are printed on 75 foam coated balls. Players race to collect balls to combine them into words or a consecutive number row. Math and spelling skills.

Keywords: activity, elementary game, foam balls, interdisciplinary, literacy, math, race, relay, run and think, running., spelling

Scat Cat

Posted by: Shannon King

Description: Equpiment needed: Poly Dots
(The number of Poly Dots depends on how much movement you want. More dots equals less movement. I use about 15-20 less than the total number of students)

Scat Cat is a tagging game. When a student gets tagged, they have to go to Exercise Ally and perform the given exercises before returning to the game. The poly dots are safe spots and students can say "scat cat" to take over any dot. Change out exercises and taggers each round.

Keywords: Elementary, Exercise, Fitness, Fitness Games, Tag, Tagging

Defenders of the Universe

Posted by: Jeremy Barr

Description: game that works on hand-eye coordination, speed, and teamwork.

Keywords: Elementary co-op game., hand-eye coordination, Superheroes

Team BucketStack Game

Posted by: Michael Wagner

Description: Team Bucketstack is a larger version of cup stacking. It involves a lot of movement and coordination. Students run across the gym to build their pyramids. Don Glover is their instructor for this fun activity. They stack and unstack 36 buckets.

Keywords: activity, buckets, bucketstack, cup stacking, elementary, game, gross motor, rainbow., stack and unstack, team game

2007 Haunted House

Posted by: Mark Ricketts

Description: An obstacle course for grades K-4

Keywords: elementary, gymnastics, mats, obstacle course

Sink the Ship

Posted by: Shannon King

Description: SINK THE SHIP: Divide the class into two teams and have the teams sit along the sides of the gym floor. Place the folding mats flat along the sidelines, this will be known as the SHIP. Place 20 bowling pins on top of each ship (the mats). The scooters are known as the life boats, and the students wearing the life jackets (jerseys) are the only students allowed in the ocean (the space between the two ships). The remaining students must stay behind their ships (the mats). Place all the cannon balls (foam balls) in the ocean. On the signal the students on the life boats must retrieve the cannon balls out of the ocean and give it to their team. The students on the ship try to throw the cannon balls across the ocean and hit their opponents bowling pins on their ship. Once all the bowling pins are knock down, the ship as been sunk and the game is called. Change out life jackets after each round.

Keywords: Bowling Pins, Elementary, Games, Throwing

Dancing (Cotton Eyed Joe)

Posted by: Greg Schmitz

Description: This fourth grade is having a blast performing a full rotation of the dance Cotton Eyed Joe. This is a line dance that involves memorization and rythmical coordination.

Keywords: Cotton Eye Joe, Dance, Elementary, Line Dance, music

Poi Poi Rhythmical Activity

Posted by: Michael Wagner

Description: Poi Poi is an old activity that I learned when I visited the Hawian Cultural Center years ago. It is a great eye hand rhythmical activity that your whole class can do. Mike Wagner is the instructor.

Keywords: activity, coordination, elementary grades, eye hand, Poi, rhythmical, symetrical activity

2008 Haunted House Obstacle Course

Posted by: Mark Ricketts

Description: Obstacle course idea for grades K-4. I have half the students stationed around the course as helpers. They keep the course safe and make others wait their turn. After about 3-4 minutes, I stop the music and have the people going through the course stop and go replace one of the helpers. Then, the helpers get a turn to run through the course. This continues for the majority of class. Anyone going too fast or reckless is asked to sit out and loses their time on the course. With Kindergarten, I do half of the course at a time so that they don't get lost. I turn the lights down low to give it a "haunted" feel.

Keywords: elementary, gymnastics, Obstacle course, pathways, traveling

Jump Rope Routine

Posted by: Greg Schmitz

Description: This is a group of students performing a jump rope routine for their assessment test for the jump rope unit. The girls have to perform 6 tricks each within the group routine because they are in 6th grade. They are assessed based on performance criteria.

Keywords: 6th grade, assessment, elementary, Jump rope, jumping, routines, skills testings