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Useful Tips for Teaching Physical Education
Social Distancing Game Ideas for Physical Education
Drew shares various physical activities that can be conduced either virtually or physically with social distancing. Detailed activity guides and lists of equipment required are available.
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Social Distancing Activities for Physical Education Class
Some of these ideas will work for you, and some wont. It’s up to you to tailor them to fit your class size, students age, and gym size.
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Physical Challenges!
This playlist is a compilation of more than 50 physical challenges that anyone can do at school, with the benefit of allowing for social distancing.
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Distance Learning For Physical Education
Joey Feith, the founder of ThePhysicalEducator.com, shares his P.E. curriculum document that includes at-home lesson plans as well as a variety of resources to support the virtual P.E. lessons.
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Best Free Online Exercise Fitness Workouts for Toddlers & Preschoolers
Check out the list of YouTube Channels that provides playlists with FREE online exercise workouts for preschoolers! You may show the videos to children during virtual lessons and get them moving!
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Creating a Virtual PE Class in Google Slides
Stephanie, a K-5 P.E. teacher, shows how her make virtual P.E lesson fun and interactive by using Bitmoji and Google Slides.
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Seesaw Mix & Match Activities for Physical Education
Looking for ideas on integrating P.E. in Seesaw? In this post, you will learn how to create a simple “Mix & Match” activity for your students to gain insight into their understanding of movement concepts.
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October Printable Fitness Challenge Calendar
This printable calendar is a great resource that teachers can share with students or parents can share with their kids and encourage them to stay active during the school year. Be sure to socially distance and safely complete the activities.
Printable task cards, task sheets and certificates are available too!
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Physical Education Games With NO Equipment
These P.E Games and Ideas use no equipment and follow social distancing rules. Great for Primary school children and teachers.
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10 Social Distancing PE Activities & Games
Kids need to stay active, and while you might not be able to teach skill development, sports, or fitness, where students are sharing the same equipment, it is possible to continue PE classes in this environment. Not sure where to start?
Explore this list of social distancing PE activities and games to help you out!
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5 Game Ideas for a Social Distance Activity Program
It is no longer safe to do whole group games or some typical learning activities where students are in large groups or sharing equipment regularly.
Check out these learning activities that are socially distance friendly!
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How to Engage Students in Physical Education Class?
Engaging your students in PE class can be difficult at times. There are many causes for this. Many educators find that emphasizing individual goals, targets and a focus on personal improvement helps motivate their students.
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8 Ideas to Make PE Class Better for Kids
A former PE teacher talks about 8 ideas to make students enjoy PE classes that will benefit them.
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Motivating Students to Participate in Sport
For teenagers, participation rates in sport activities are low. Here are some advises on how to motivate disengaged students.
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How To Maximizing Participation in Physical Education?
Maximizing PE participation sounds like a no-brainer to me! But, what are some of the effective strategies that can make that objective a reality in your physical education?
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5 Ways to Raise Participation in Physical Education
If you teach at a school where there are lower levels of PE participation, it can be incredibly frustrating as a PE teacher. Here are several tried and tested methods for increasing participation levels.
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Plickers Assessment Magnets & Mini-couching System
Joey showed how to help students set goals, track progress and learn independently in P.E. class.
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Flipgrid in Health/Physical Education
Flipgrid provides a sampling of Health and PE Topics created by fellow educators and ready to be used with your learners.
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