PE Lesson Sites

from Lea Hallinan:
Physical Education Web-Bibliography
http://www.aahperd.org/NASPE/
The National Association for Sport and Physical Education’s mission is to enhance knowledge, improve professional practice, and increase support for high quality physical education, sport, and physical activity programs through research, development of standards, and distribution of information. One neat resource on this site is the Teacher Toolbox. It’s a way to share ideas for promoting physical education, physical activity, or youth sports programs. The toolbox has different features each month that meet the national standards, provide elementary and secondary fitness calendars that can be sent home with students, bulletin board ideas, puzzles and games, information about the nation’s health observances, and the newest resource materials. This month’s focus is on national nutrition month: food/energy balance. It lists a variety of activities and provides suggestions for modifications depending on your grade level.
http://www.sports-media.org/
This website has sports media and physical education lesson plans, tips, drills, activities and other teaching aids for the physical education teacher. Under the P.E. teacher option, it has a database of over 900 lesson plans and activities as well as optional quizzes. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, there is also a link to their database of additional P.E. related sites that allows you to search by activity (ie. field day activities, disc golf, handball).
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/pe/contents01games.htm
This site lists different game ideas for physical education. You can share ideas with other people and the useful thing is that each game has a user review and comment section. In addition to games, you can find ideas for warm-ups and cool-downs, ideas for specific topics (gymnastic, swimming, dance), and ideas for developing bulletin boards in class.
http://www.peuniverse.com
I really liked this website because it provides you with video footage of different P.E. activities. I found it useful because even though I’m provided with the steps of an activity, I’m sometimes not sure what it’s supposed to look like and having a visual to go with the lesson is really helpful. Specifically, I have been wanting to teach some line dances to my class and I couldn’t picture some of the moves as they were written on paper. There is a variety of videos on this site and you can search by key word in either the video or blog section.
http://www.movingandlearning.com
On this website you’ll find a variety of activities under the 7 things you can do to save recess section. It divides the activities up into categories which makes it a little easier to find particular games. Some of the categories are fitness fun, circle games and movement activities that teach. The section that caught my attention is called noncompetitive games. They provide you with four games (the snake, sticky popcorn, beanbag freeze and three-legged creatures) that could be used with students of any age and require little to no equipment to play. I thought Sticky Popcorn was pretty cute for younger students and here’s how to play: Sticky Popcorn. Talk to the children about the process of cooking popcorn – from kernels in the oil, through heating up, to becoming full-fledged pieces of popcorn. What would happen if something sticky, like butter or caramel, was poured all over the popcorn? Invite the children to lie on the floor, in the smallest shape possible, imagining they’re tiny uncooked kernels of popcorn. Then the “oil” they’re lying in starts to heat up, and they start popping. They keep popping – all over the room! You then “pour” butter or caramel over them, making them very sticky. When that happens, every time they come near another kernel, they stick to it – until there’s just one big, stuck bunch of popcorn!
http://www.hccanet.org/patricks/index.htm
This site is for educators looking for creative ideas to use in their classroom. It’s very easy to navigate and you can search by the following categories: resources, activities, kids’ stuff, field day, P.E. sites and sports. I liked the field day section because they lay out four days worth of planned activities that are either groups of activities or based on themes such as the Olympics.