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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

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Super casino basketball
Students will demonstrate skills in dribbling, shooting, and defense by participating in a game that promotes cooperation and sportsmanship.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Healthful Living)
By Chad Hamby.
Ultimate frisbee
Ultimate frisbee is a game that can be played on a regular gym floor. Students will use a combination of passing and catching skills. Ultimate frisbee is a good cardiovascular workout. Students will also be able to work on teamwork skills.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Healthful Living)
By Susie Shelton.
Leaping, jumping, hopping
This basic movement lesson focuses on leaping, jumping, and hopping skills.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Healthful Living)
By Bozena Mielczak.
Fitness fun
This lesson introduces fun cardiovascular exercises that raise the heart rate.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Healthful Living)
By Sharon Serine.
Zigzag jump rope relay
Students participate in a jump rope relay race.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Healthful Living)
By Wilhelmina Cartwright.
You go circuit
Station activities centered around the objective of changing levels and manipulating objects.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2–5 Healthful Living)
By Alice Monk.
Tennis ball can relay
Through tennis ball can relays, reading will be integrated into the physical education program. This will be done with instructions written on slips of paper. In relay form, students will pull them out of a tennis ball can one at a time and perform each task.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Healthful Living)
By Nancy Lee.
Walking pathways
Second PE lesson in school experience of Kindergartener. Students explore walking movement and pathways.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living)
By Bozena Mielczak.
Ohm's Law made easy with a spreadsheet
In this lesson, students will use math word problems to help them input information into a spreadsheet that will use Ohm's law to calculate current and resistance using common household appliance wattages.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Computer/Technology Skills, Mathematics, and Science)
By Hilda Hamilton.
Overhand throwing
The students will perform the skills of throwing overhand. This is the third lesson in Manipulative Activities Unit in 2nd quarter that follows lesson on throwing a ball underhand.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 )
By Bozena Mielczak.
Rolling a ball
More than a Physical Education lesson plan! The main focus of this manipulative activities lesson is rolling a ball. Students will roll other objects and practice rolling themselves. Additionally, you will find many ideas for structuring and managing a PE class.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–3 )
By Bozena Mielczak.
Electricity
Electricity
Electricity moves through these lines and power poles across the area of Urfa, Turkey. There are dozens and dozens of the lines and distributors. They look like a jungle gym of poles and cords and wires just waiting to be played on. There is a road in the...
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Underhand throwing
The students will perform the skills of throwing underhand. This is the second lesson in Manipulative Activities Unit in 2nd quarter that follows lesson on rolling a ball.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–3 Healthful Living)
By Bozena Mielczak.
Human box and whisker plot
Students will learn how to construct box and whisker plots as they actively participate in being a part of one based upon their heights. As an extension of the lesson, students will learn how to interpret a graph of this type.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Mathematics)
By Nikki Honeycutt.
Animal research: A multimedia approach
Students will be working with a partner to research a favorite animal. They will be required to use a wide variety of resources which include multimedia software packages, the Internet, and various books. The students will be looking up general information about their animal, such as its habitat, place on the food chain, size, etc. Ultimately the students will be responsible for presenting the information they have gathered in some form of multimedia presentation. This activity is primarily student-oriented rather than teacher-oriented in that the students will be selecting what animals they want to research and what materials they want to use in creating their report. The teacher will give some basic requirements and guidelines to ensure that students are on task.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Information Skills and Science)
By Amy Edwards.
Dribbling a ball with a hand
After this lesson, student should be aware of 4 critical components of dribbling a ball (on the side, no higher than waist, pushing the ball down, and looking up) and be able to dribble a ball applying at least 3 of them.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Healthful Living)
By Bozena Mielczak.
Passing for success
Student will learn how to pass a basketball, one of the skills necessary to succeed at the game of basketball.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Healthful Living)
By Pierre Dacons.
Jump start your creativity: question yourself!
A short webliography of tools to help you ask good questions.
Format: article
By Bobby Hobgood.
Musical money
Musical Money is a game to help reinforce counting different amounts of money. It is fashioned after the game Musical Chairs.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
By Brenda Allred.
Basketball: How to shoot
This lesson will give students the ability to succeed at one of the most important skills of basketball. This will be interesting, easy, and fun to learn.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Healthful Living)