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Bubble Tag:
This cooperative activity is good activity for both large and small groups. This activity is not only a good cooperative activity, but also teachs team work, tagging, dodging, fitness, and ... more.
Bunny Hop:
This activity is for all students. In this aerobic activity has studens spread out in a large classroom, gym or multipurpose room where students will ... more.
Clothes Pin Tag:
This activity is a loved activity among students. It is not like most chasing and tagging games, in this activity students are working individually to collect clothes pins. This activity might not be best with all groups, but ... more.
Cutters and Planters:
This activity is for all students. Students really enjoy this cooperative learning and aerobic activity. This activity is best played in a large clear area like a gym or multipurpose room where students will ... more.
Data Processing:
This activity is best with primary students who need to practice cooperative learning and team work. This is not only a great cooperative activty, but it is also a great lesson in listening, brainstorming, and ... more.
Dragons Tail:
This activity is for all students, but may not be appropriate for all groups of students. Students really enjoy this activity because students work in groups to accomplish the same task and ... more.
Dribble Drills:
This activity helps students learn and practice correctly dribbling a ball. Students will be able to have fun while still using hand corrdination, developing dribbling skills and ... more.
Fire - Trees - Water:
This is a fun activity to do with students, but it can be difficult for some. This is also a great lesson to be integrated into scicence if appropriate. This activity is not only fun, but is very cognitive because ... more.
Forward Rolling:
This activity helps students learn and practice correctly transfering their weight. This is an important skill all studnets need to use and master. Flexablity is one of the main goals of this lesson along with ... more.
Frozen Bean Bag:
This is a simple but enjoyable activity to do with students. This activity can even be used in the classroom when appropriate. It envolves students doing locomotor movements while balancing a bean bag and ... more.
Getting Warmer:
This activity helps students practice their non-locomotor, listening, and cooperative learning skills. This is a good classroom activity to use in the primary grades where students can practice team work and listening. This activity is also a great music activity that can be incoprated into your ... more.
Group Juggling:
This pairs and group activity helps students learn and practice their throwing and catching skills. This can also be a fun classroom activity. This has been a sucessful activity when learning names, counting, practicing the alphabet, spelling, and/or ... more.
Horse and Rider:
This activity is probably best for primary age students. Students work with partners to practice good communication, team work and ... more.
Hula-Hoop Pass:
This is a great activity for most groups of students. In small groups, students stand in a cirlce holding hands and pass a hula-hoop around the cirlce without letting go of hands. This activity can be difficult for some students, but allows students to practice movements, team work and ... more.
I Got You Tag:
This activity involves a new type of tagging. Students slide bean bags along the floor and try to tag students from a distance with their bean bag. This activity is a good fitness and aeobic activity because ... more.
Jaws:
This is a parachute activity. Students stand in a cirlce and hold the parachute at their waist as a whole group. One or more students are picked to be "sharks" and ... more.
Keep It Up:
In this activity students work togehter to keep the balloon(s) (or beach ball(s)) in the air with their hands while they students are linked together by holding hands. This is a good cooperative activity and ... more.
Line Tag:
This activity is a favorite among many studens. There are many variations of how this game can be played. Here is a variation that students have really enjoyed. It teaches cooperative learning, fitness, tagging, dodging and ... more.
Motion Magic:
This is a good classroom activity to do with students. This activity involves students working together, listening, and following directions. This activity is best for the primary age grades and ... more.
Movement Beats:
In this activity students learn how follow the beat to a drum and to learn and practice concepts of movement (speed, body height, and direction). Students learn to practice listening, following directions and ... more.
Parachute Formations:
This is a fun parachute activity. Students learn to make three differnet formations when holding a parachute. During this activity students will correctly learn and practice using a parachute and ... more.
Partner Patterns:
This is an activity where students learn and practice non-locomotor movements. Students practice these non-locomotor movements to music with a partner and ... more.
Pass The Duck:
This activity allows students to practice their catching and throwing skills. This activity is also good as a classroom activity. Students can sit on the floor or in their desks as they pass and catch the "duck" and ... more.
Quick Hands:
This is a cooperative activity. Students sit in pairs and race to be the first to grab the correct bean bag. During this activity students practice their eye-hand coordination and ... more.
Ring On A String:
This is good cognitive activity and can be used successfully in the classroom. Students sit in a circle holding a rope. The guesser in the middle has to look around the circle and ... more.
Ring Pass:
This can be a very fun activity for students. It requires good feet-eye coordination. Groups of students sit in small groups and pass rings around the circle using only thier feet and ... more.
Ripples, Waves, and Popcorn:
This is a very fun parachute activity and good for students of all ages. Students learn and practice doing three different activities using a parachute. Students sit in a big circle holding a parachute and ... more.
Silent Speed Ball:
This is a common classroom activity. Students stand or sit around the classroom and toss a foam ball from student to student without talking. This activity is well liked by most students and ... more.
Step Back:
This is a good activity for students to practice correctly throwing and catching. This is a common activity using water balloons. During this activity students work with partners, while throwing, catching and ... more.
Stick Exchange:
This is a wonderful cooperative activity. Pairs of students have to balance a rod on their shoulders while touching the ground. This is a great activity for team work, balancing, and ... more.
Stuck In The Mud:
This is a common activity that is used in primary and intermediate grades. During this activity studens must work togehter and try to stay safe and untagged while helping their classmates. This activity involves dodging, tagging, fleeing, teamwork and ... more.
Upright Balance:
This is an advanced balancing activity. During this lesson students correctly learn and practice the progressions of upright balancing. During this activity students will have a chance to start from the "crab" poisiton and ... more.
Zig Zag Passing:
This activity involves catching and throwing. This is an activity that is well liked by students of all ages. This activity is cognitive, involves team work and ... more.