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Cookie Monster Game

Posted by: Michael Wagner

Description: Who is going to wake up the cookie monster? Students sneak up to the sleeping cookie monster. If they wake the monster they must try and run to safety before they are caught. Mr. Glover is the best cookie monster ever.

Keywords: activity, cookie monster, dodging, game, lower grade game, planning., running, whole class

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

Rollerball Relay

Posted by: Frank Miranda

Description: A set number of students run from one side of the gym to the other and choose a colored ball from a hula-hoop and proceed to roll the ball from a designated line and make it into the target (milk crate). The winning student stays while the teacher chooses other students to dethrone the champ.

Keywords: aiming at target, cardiovascular, rolling, running

Hideout

Posted by: Shannon King

Description: 

Keywords: dodging, elementary, fitness, Running, throwing

Chaotic Countdown

Posted by: Frank Miranda

Description: Students are divided into two equal teams. Students must make their designated colored ball from a set of spots on the gym floor. Once a student makes it from a spot they pick up the spot and the ball, and return it to their team>s hula-hoop. Once all spots are gone the game is over.

Keywords: aiming at target, running, teamwork, underhand throwing

Meteor Ball

Posted by: Frank Miranda

Description: Two equally divided teams use gator balls (meteors) to try to push a beach ball (planet) across their opponets line. The game is played to a set number of points designated by the teacher.

Keywords: running and throwing at moving target, Teamwork

Trades Game

Posted by: Stephanie Estfan

Description: The class is divided into two equal teams. Two lines are designated at opposite ends of the area. One team, the chasers, stands on one of the lines. The other team, the runners, starts on the other line. The runners move slowly toward the chasers while reciting the following:
Runners: Here we come
Chasers: Where from
Runners: New Orleans
Chasers: What's your trade?
Runners: Lemonade
Chasers: Show us some
As the runners are approaching the chasers they are acting out an occupation they have chosen previously. The chasers try and guess what they are. When correct the chasers try to tag the runners before they make it back to their goal line. Any runner tagged must join the chasers. The game is repeated with roles reversed.

Keywords: dodging, imagery, Running

King Pin

Posted by: Derek Cooper

Description: King Pin is a action packed activity that involves running, throwing and a lot of strategy.

RacetrackFitness

Posted by: Stephanie Estfan

Description: Students are paired up with a partner. One partner starts in the center (the Pit) the other begins on the perimeter (the racetrack). Five or six activities are set up in the center (the Pit). One partner begins in the center performing flexibility or strength exercise, while the other partner is going around the perimeter performing any locomotor movement. Intervals of 30 seconds of music with 10 seconds of silence can be used to signal role change. The student running the racetrack now goes to the pit and vice versa.

Keywords: control, Pace, performance

Odd and Even Dice

Posted by: Lori Smith

Description: All students start with a foam dice. The teacher will let the students know what locomotor will be called if an odd number is rolled or if an even number is rolled. For example, all even numbers can be walking and all odd numbers can be running. After a couple of rolls, change the locomotor movements. For example, gallop for even numbers, skip for odd numbers.