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P.e. environmental lesson plans, food chain tag.

Students will learn a brief background about energy transfer between the sun, producers, primary consumers, and secondary consumers. ½ of the students are primary consumers (plants) and ¼ of the students are primary consumers (rabbits) and ¼ of the students are secondary consumers (hawks).

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Aces and exercise.

Using a deck of playing cards, the students will pick the number of reps for various exercises.  

And Freeze!

Students will practice listening skills and basic physical concepts as required in physical education class. Students will also work on balance and coordination.

Animal Laps

Combining information about the speed of animals, the students will run laps in the gym or outdoors.

Basketball Relay

Students will practice teamwork, dribbling, and shooting a basketball.

Bear Hunt Obstacle Course

This plan will combine reading with balance and coordination skills to allow students to navigate a simple obstacle course.

Boom Over Movement Game

Students will play a game in which they need to change direction quickly. Students are to pretend that they are on a sailboat that is in the middle of a storm. They will have to run and change direction based on verbal commands and duck quickly to avoid being hit by the imaginary boom.

Butterfly Stretches

This lesson is designed to help students learn the importance and reasons for exercise through multiple activities and discussions.

Coordination Course

This plan will allow students to practice coordination while staying physical.

Multi-Ball Basketball

The student will participate in a game of basketball using various sizes of available balls.

Music Movement

The students will move to the music based on its beat, words, tune, and other variables.

On Top of Spaghetti

Pe immigration.

The students will research games and activities from other countries to share during a PE class.

Pass It Off

This lesson will allow students to practice passing, dribbling, and bouncing skills using basketballs

Plate Aerobics

Students will practice basic aerobics moves while trying to stay positioned on paper plates, this aids in coordination.

Race to the Answer

This lesson will allow students to practice teamwork, basic math skills, and get exercise through a relay race. Note: Problems/difficulty level can be altered by grade

Ride ‘Em Cowboy/girl

This lesson will allow students to practice gross motor skills.  

Students will practice listening skills and basic physical concepts as required in physical education class.

Ski to the Finish Line

This plan will allow students to practice coordination while staying physical. Students will demonstrate moving straight, backwards, and in a zig-zag pattern.

The New PE Class

The students will create a PE activity to share and demonstrate to peers.

This lesson will allow students to practice teamwork and trust building, as well as working on directionality for younger students.

What Time is it FOX?

The students play a game where they practice different movements including jumping, galloping, skipping, running, jogging, leaping, and walking. Based on National Physical Education Standards, students should have been learning these skills for the last 4 years.

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How to Teach Kindergarten in PE

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How to Teach Kindergarten PE ( Link to Podcast Episode )

Podcast below: ( itunes ), youtube show below:.

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Rules and procedures.

  • Ease into activities, be aware of nervousness or fear
  • Teacher is Talking What are We Doing?
  • Have something to say what should you do?
  • Hands and Feet Too…?
  • Discover and practice personal space and moving within boundary lines.  I usually start with just simple move with the music and freeze when the music stops and then once they’ve got that we play an imagination and movement game that I call “I See” (video below)

  • I usually wait until about the 3rd or 4th lesson to give my Home Base Spots in Kindy.  You can also see in the video below How I Teach My Kids their Home Base Spots through working on Open Space and Stopping Signal during PE class

  • Read “ Gym Teacher from the Black Lagoon ”
  • Have patience with Kindergarten students
  • Take pictures of each student in the class to help remember names, (students come to PE with name tags on) so the next time they come I have faces with names. Can also share with other teachers to help them learn names.
  • Music is on you are free to go, music is off you can not go
  • Strike 1 is a warning
  • Strike 2 refocus area
  • Strike 3 refocus area/note home to parent
  • Overview of Ben’s PE Rules and Expectations

Instagram Live Question: How many K students do you have in a class? Do you Team Teaching?

  • Ben – 20-25 students we have teamed taught in the past but now just single classes. 2 groups a day of 5K or 4K for 25 minutes

  • Marcus – 23 – 24 students double classes everyday for 50 minutes (around 50 kids at a time normally)
  • “When the teacher is talking you should be…Listening”
  • “If you have something to say what should you do?… Raise your hand”
  • “Keep your hands and feet too?…Yourself”
  • Additional for Marcus’s school “Point to where you go if you need help with your shoes” Students point to designated area for help with shoes
  • Team Teaching advantages – one teacher can teach the students while the other teacher is dealing with the issues (crying, injuries, no shoes, etc…)

Example of our Big 3 Rules Review in the video below (from COVID times as you can tell from the mask)

Kindergarten Mindset

  • Put yourself in the students perspective, they have only been running for a couple of years yet alone trying to follow rules and procedures.  Patience is key.
  • Do not get upset with yourself or them if they make a mistake.
  • Do not take it personal.  They are learning everyday like we are. Being able to teach with another teacher gives me a chance to have one on one conversations with students if they do make a mistake.
  • Play to learn mindset.  Kindergarten students are not ready for lots of progression tasks.  Giving them practice time with less structure by exposing them to content helps to keep students on task and allows them to be creative and explore skills and equipment.

Instagram live Question: Do you have any tips to learning all the names? Home Base Spots

  • We take pictures of the students, at the beginning of the year, when they have name tags on.
  • Making connections with the names helps to build relationship with students. (Siblings, roster sheet)

Mindset con’t

  • Kindergarten students fears may seem silly to you but to them it’s a big deal.  Forcing students to do something they do not want to do or getting frustrated with them when they do not want to do something in PE class can have lasting effects on them.  Offer different options for those students.

Instagram Live Question: Starting my second year, how do you switch things up from year to year?

  • Vertical Alignment helps to switch things up students.  What I do in Kindergarten will look different in first grade.  Hopefully as you get to learn your students you can progress the content as they get older.
  • Because we see our students once a week, proficiency is difficult for us to achieve in four lessons.  So we typically teach the same content and progress the difficulty as the students get older in order to build the confidence for students to practice outside of class.
  • Ben discuss the 4-Square progress as an example of vertical alignment.

Recommended Format for Kindergarten – Stations

  • Stations for Kindergarten are a great way to take the content you’re teaching and break it down for easy learning.
  • Stations are a great way to get student acclimated to the gym and sharing equipment.

Instagram Live Question: Stopping Signal

  • Set up, play, clean up, point to next station, move (Here are some tips for teaching with Station Activities)
  • Stations on one activity multiple different ways
  • Stations with different activities in each station
  • Breaking down content area (Basketball) into stations
  • Gives practice time to each student, gets them ready for other activities i.e. Field Day , and allows for teacher feedback to students. You become the facilitator.

Instagram Live Question: Do you typically take attendance or get right into instant activity?

  • Ben – I have a roster but do not have assigned seats with Kindergarten so I just check with the teacher to see who is here and if they’re absent I mark it down on my roster sheet.
  • Marcus – Beginning of the year to help learn names we go down the roster call students name and have them tell us something about themselves (favorite food, color, dog or cat)

Timeline for Average Lesson

  • Students come in and sit down on the line.  We review the three rules. (Refer above)
  • We do walking (short lines)/ jogging (long lines) as a warm up.  After a while, we will switch up the locomotors on the line. PVC hurdles .  Can also set up cones and make a track around the gym for warmup.
  • Students then come to the middle and we discuss the stations. The rotation is the same every time we just switch out the activities.

Instagram Live Question: How do you split the class up?

  • With a single class we split them up by their name and sending them to a station.  With double classes, we usually split them up by gender and home room to a station.
  • Team Shake (link), counting off 1-2-3-4, have students choose a station, colored wristband (Link to Amazon)

Practice Losing Before a Game

Anytime I do a competitive activity with my Kindergarten students (and any other classes that struggle with sportsmanship) I always give them a chance to “Practice Losing” before we play the game so my expectations are clear and it’s on the front of their minds before we start

Lesson Ideas and Activities

  • Ability to move around in personal and open space while practicing locomotor skills. “I See” (Find link or video)
  • “ Listen and Move ” Greg and Steve
  • Call it Macaroni
  • Hokey Pokey
  • Freeze Dance
  • Chicken Dance
  • Place a beanbag on their head to keep them in control and slow down

Instagram Live Question: How do you close your class?

  • Real quick and simple as they leave review the cues of the activity.

Have Fun and Teach On!

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Animal warm-up

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physical education lesson plans for kindergarten

Warm-up dance for Christmastime

I am very insecure when it comes to teaching dances.  However, this particu

physical education lesson plans for kindergarten

Using stations/centers/rotations in PE class

A popular day in my PE class is when we do “PE centers” (or rotation

physical education lesson plans for kindergarten

Kindergarten and spatial awareness

One of my main objectives with my kindergarten classes is to teach them spatial

Fire and Ice Tag game

My first and second graders love tag games.  This is a fun spin on frozen tag.

physical education lesson plans for kindergarten

Scoops and Balls

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“UNO” warm-up game

I pulled out an old set of “UNO” cards this week and used them for a

“Frozen” tag

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20 Simple Ideas for Kindergarten P.E. with Minimal Equipment

Important: Always make sure you have enough space for these activities! Also, think about the level your pupils are at currently and if they can participate in the activity safely.

1. STAR JUMPS

Say ‘Arms out!’ and jump, landing with your arms and legs out like a star. Shout ‘Arms in!’ and jump, landing so you are stood up straight with your arms at you side. Do this with the class a few times, and then say they have 10 seconds to do as many star jumps as they can. After you’ve given them ten seconds, ask a few students how many they did. This makes things competitive, and you can now get all the children to try again and see how many star jumps they can get in another 10 second period. This time round they’ll start doing super-fast star jumps as if their lives depended on it. Very good exercise to wake up sleepy students! Oh, and don’t be surprised if the children go from saying they managed to do 10-12 star jumps in 10 seconds to eventually topping each other by telling you they did 100+! 2. FUNNY RUNNING

Have all the children sit against a wall or in a line. They then have to run to the opposite wall or another line in a certain specified way. You can tell them to run as tigers, as elephants, as birds or whatever else you can think of. As snakes is particularly good, as they then have to commando crawl across the gym. You can also have them walking backwards, walking like robots, walking sideways like a crab or dancing across Gangnam-style.

The main thing here is that they aren’t allowed to stand up and start moving until you count down ‘3, 2, 1, GO!’. You can have fun by not saying the right number and so making them do false starts. If I see any children who have started to stand up before I’ve counted down, then I’ll usually make everyone sit back down before starting the countdown again. The more you build up the anticipation of what they are about to do, the more they’ll jump wholeheartedly into doing it! 3. TEEPEE-PENCIL

All the children stand up and are free to walk around the gym. When you shout ‘teepee!’ they have to put both their hands together above their heads and then not move. If you shout ‘pencil!’ then they have to stand with their arms at their side.

Slowly build in more commands lesson by lesson. I also used ‘ball!’ where they had to curl up in a ball on the floor, and ‘tree!’ where the kids had to stand with their arms out like tree branches. If I shouted ‘bridge!’ then they would have to make an arch with their body, keeping their hands and feet on the floor. If you shout ‘fall!’ or maybe ‘starfish!’, then they have to flop flat on the ground.

Once the children have got the hang of the game, you could work in some commands which require them to make a shape with other children. For example, ‘super bridge!’ means they have to link arms with a classmate to make a big arch.

You can get the class to work up quite a sweat if you go back and forth between commands like ‘teepee’ and ‘starfish’, as they’ll be standing up then flinging themselves down again and again!

TIP: Why not save your voice and link each command to a number of blows of a whistle? 4. PAIRS

Choose one student or use a fellow teacher to demonstrate what you want the kids to do. Everyone has to find one other student to stand back-to-back with and then link arms with that other person.

You then shout ‘Change!’ and start counting down from 5. Within those 5 seconds, all the students have to find a new person to stand with and link arms. With younger children you don’t need to put any more rules in and they’ll be happy to run around screaming looking for someone to link arms with! 5. JUMP JUMP

All the students stand against one wall or sit on a line. The winner is the first person to touch the opposite wall or line. BUT they can only move towards the ‘winning’ wall in certain ways.

If you shout ‘1 jump!’, the students can take 1 jump towards the winning wall. If you shout ‘1 step!’, then they can take one big step towards the wall. You can vary up the number of steps or jumps they are allowed to take.

Every lesson I have a different word which acts as my ‘monster’ word. If I say the ‘monster’ word, then all the students have to run back and touch the wall where they started from originally to be ‘safe’. If I can tag any of the students before they reach the wall then they have been caught by the monster and are out of this round.

Any child that is caught taking more than the number of jumps or steps you said has to go back to the beginning and start over again. If you have students who are always edging forward or taking more jumps than they should, you can shout the monster word. Because they’ve taken additional steps, they’ll be nearer to the winning wall and closer to you and so more liable to being caught.

TIP: After a few rounds, train up one pupil to take over the ‘teacher’ role. 6. MONSTER

All the students sit down against one wall. They have to run across the gym and reach the other wall and then sit down. One or two students are chosen by the teacher to be ‘monsters’, and they stand up in the middle of the gym. The teacher says ‘go!’ and all the students try and run past the monsters and reach the other side. If a monster tags a student before they can reach the other side and sit down, then the student is eliminated from the game.

I find that if you let eliminated students become monsters too, you’ll quickly find half of your class trying to get caught on purpose as they want to be made into a monster! This kind of ruins the game. Also, if you have too many monsters in the middle then you can’t police things, and you’ll find that there are some students who don’t want to be made into monsters EVER, and who will therefore lie about being tagged unless you see it happen and enforce the rules.

With only having two or maybe three monsters in the middle, the teacher can act as a referee and call out any student they see getting tagged.

If you have them, you can give the monsters a foam stick or something similar to use to tag other students.

TIP: Again, keep things fast. You don’t want children eliminated for more than a few minutes before going back in. 7. RUNNING ELIMINATION

The class stand against one wall. You say ‘Ready, Go!’. The class have to run and touch the other wall before you blow your whistle. You can run this like a ‘beep test’ and gradually increase how quickly you whistle.

When I say ‘Ready, go!’ I point to the wall they have to run to. Sometimes, when the children are halfway across I’ll point at the other wall and say ‘Ready, go!’. This means all the pupils now have to stop running and quickly change direction to run back to the wall they just came from. It’s pretty fun if you do this a few times in a row! This is also a good way to keep slower children in the game for a few more rounds.

If a student doesn’t make it to the wall before you blow your whistle then they are eliminated. Keep doing this until you have a few pupils left, they are the winners. Ideally by the time you finish, the children who win should be drenched in sweat and barely able to catch their breath because they’ve been running so much! 8. ON YOUR MARKS

All the children stand against one wall. You say ‘On your marks!’ and they get into the first running position (on all fours). You say ‘Get set!’ and they lift their knees off the ground, ready to start running. You shout ‘Go!’ and they have to race to the other side of the gym and back. 9. SPRINT RACE

Have all the children sit along the side and choose two or three students. They stand in a line. Place a cone per student halfway across the gym and another one at the far end of the gym.

When you say go, they have to run to their nearest cone and then run back to where they started, then run past the cone to the far side of the gym to the second cone. They have to jump up and down five times (counting out loud) before running back to their starting position. 10. FETCH

Get 3 or 4 students up and have them stand in a line. Choose some different coloured balls, one for each student. You throw the balls and then the pupils have to run and grab their colour, then bring it back to you. First person to do this is the winner. This is particularly funny with very bouncy balls! 11. WALK WALK RUN

Best for very young children (2-3 years old). Have them stand at one side of the gym. Start walking to the other side of the gym saying ‘Walk, walk, walk’, then at a certain point shout ‘RUN!’, at which point everyone runs to the other side of the gym and touches the wall. Sounds very simple but they love it! 12. TOUCH SOMETHING GREEN

The teacher says ‘touch something…’ and then whatever they want. E.g. ‘Touch something blue, touch something green, touch something big’. 13. SPEED THROWING

The teacher gives one of two students a ball and stands them a short distance apart. The students then have one minute to make as many throws to each other as possible. If they drop the ball then that throw doesn’t count. Once they have set a target, choose another two students who are sitting nicely to come up and try and beat that score. If you have enough balls you can then have pupils pair up and all have a try at the same time. 14. HIGH FIVE CHALLENGE

For all pupils. They have 30 seconds to try and high five as many of their classmates as possible. 15. HOOP RUN

Another simple game for very young students. Scatter coloured hoops on the floor. You shout a colour and the children have to run and stand in the hoop that is the colour you shouted out. 16. 1,2,3!

Similar to the game above. Put together different numbers of blocks and place them round the gym. The students then have to run to the place that has the right number of blocks when you shout it out. E.g. you say ‘3!’ and they have to run and touch the stack of 3 blocks. There’s no need to do this as an elimination activity usually, as very young children will be quite happy doing this and just running around to the blocks. 17. RELAY RACE

Divide the class into a few teams and have them stand in a line. Each team gets one ball which they have to pass down the line. When the person at the back of the line gets the ball they run to the front and the process starts over. This continues until every member of a team has ran to the front (the person who was at the front at the beginning should now be at the front again). The first team to do this is the winner.

You can have them passing the ball over their heads or between their legs, or a mix of the two. With rowdier classes you can have them doing the relay while sitting down, which will keep them in a line and under control a bit more.

TIP: If you have an odd number of pupils left over, consider making these pupils your extra ‘referees’ for the round to make sure everyone follows the rules. 18. HOT OR COLD

One child is chosen to be the ‘searcher’. Without the searcher seeing, the teacher chooses another pupil who is the ‘magnet’. All of the pupils scatter and run around the gym until you tell them to freeze. They now all look at the searcher. The is the only person allowed to move and needs to walk up and tap the ‘magnet’ on the shoulder. To guide the searcher, the class can clap to help them: clapping slowly means ‘cold’ (you’re not close), then they can get louder and quicker as the searcher gets nearer to the ‘magnet’. When the searcher taps the magnet, everyone has a cheer! 19. RIVER JUMP

Put two sticks on the floor about half a metre apart. Tell the students this is a river, and they have to jump from one side to the other. Once they all do this you can move the sticks a little further apart. Have a few sets of sticks set out at different widths so that the children can move round and see which is the biggest river they can jump over.

Really young children (2-3) love this, though with you’ll find that to start off with they just do a little jump on the spot, then step over the sticks!

TIP: Choose some helpers from the class to stand at each ‘river’ and make sure the sticks are reset if they get knocked around. 20. SECRET SPY

Everyone closes their eyes and the teacher taps one pupil on the shoulder. That pupil is the ‘secret spy’ for this round.

The children have thirty seconds to run around and explore the gym, then when the teacher blows a whistle they can go to any corner they like and stand there. They look at the other children in the other corners of the gym as well as who is stood in their corner and try and remember who is where. The children are then given 30 more seconds to run around again but MUST all go back to the same corner they were in first time round. The only person who can’t do this is the pupil who was chosen as the ‘secret spy’. They MUST go to a different corner.

After the second round of running around, children raise their hand if they think they know who was the ‘secret spy’ this round. If they are right they win and you can start again. If they are wrong, you continue with another 30 second run around, and again the spy has to find a new corner to go to. How long can the spy remain undetected for?!?

44 Responses to 20 Simple Ideas for Kindergarten P.E. with Minimal Equipment

Thank you! It was really useful for me! 🙂

I find this very helpful! I’m gonna try four of them tomorrow! I’m sure my students are gonna love it. Thank you so much for sharing!

HI Naomi, nice to hear from you. New ideas go up on the blog twice a week so check back regularly for more activities!

This is extremely helpful! It is my first week teaching PE at an international school in China and I’m so nervous about teaching the youngest, pre-k and kindergarden. Thanks for these simple games!

Hi Marissa, Glad that you find them useful. I used some of those activities with students as young as 2. Just remember, make things silly and they’ll love it! Also, don’t bother trying to explain with words, just give them an example yourself and they’ll get the hang of things. Having the kids walk and then run from wall to wall could easily fill fifteen minutes of a lesson!

Many of these are PERFECT for my kindergarten class! Thank you so much!

Hi Lisa, happy to hear it!

These ideas helped me so much! Just got hired as support staff at an elementary school, and I needed ways to keep the kids from getting bored. Thanks!

Glad to hear you found the ideas useful, that’s what my blog is all about.

Wow these games are great.I can’t wait to go & teach my pupils tomorrow.Thank you very much.

You’ve got some great ideas here! My kindy class LOVE “Fetch!”

Hi Lisa, good to hear you’ve found the ideas useful! Sign up to follow my blog and get my newest ideas too.

Thanks so much for these ideas! I am working in a school with minimal equipment so these suggestions will really help. ?

Hi Hena, glad to hear they’ve been of use to you. Thanks for the comment.

Your ideas inspired me to think of bowling tag. The children would run from one wall to the other while one student tries to hit them by rolling a yoga ball across the floor. This is for K/1 grade for my homeschool co-op. Thanks for your help!

Glad you liked the ideas, and thanks for the comment!

Thank you for the ideas:) I am volunteering at my childs school where there is no gym teacher. I am not in any way a gym teacher but they don’t care as long as we are having fun! They get so excited to see me coming and they love when I incorporate different types of pranayama ( yoga breathing techniques). I taught yoga to adults so it is fun to see how the children love to get happy on breath too:) Your website is inspiring me to think outside the box of traditional gym class. Thanks again, next step is parachute games!

Hi Andrea, brilliant to hear you’re making the lessons fun! Thanks for the comment.

love your games, and have tried most of them with my P1/2 infant class in Scotland. Thank you for your great ideas 🙂

Thanks for the feedback, always glad to hear from someone who has used the games with their class!

Love your blog of games. Thanks so much. It’s always nice to get new ideas to plant in my garden of PE teaching.

Hi Maureen, I appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. Always happy to hear from someone who uses the activities!

I was looking for something to entertain my three granddaughters at the wellness center gym.. several of them will be great fun!! Thanks to you!!

Hi Linda, great to hear the activities have proved useful!

wow this is great. My reception class will now have fun during the p.e lessons in kenya

Hi Lydia, glad to hear from you; you’re the first person I’ve heard from using my ideas in Africa!

Thank you so much for your wonderful ideas, I am using them in India 🙂

Hi Jessica, thanks for posting! India’s a new one, great news.

Thanks for posting this! I have been teaching kindergarten for about 10 years now. Never taught PE until this year. I was kind of short on ideas. This really helped. Thanks!

Have you ever tried……….

Caterpillar Races

All that is needed is a few balls. Students line up in groups of 4 or 5. The ball starts at the front of the group. Students pass the ball to the back. When the student in the back has the ball he runs to the front. Keep doing this until they get to the finish line.

Circle Game

Students hold hands and get in a circle. Give the students simple commands like…… big big big! (students make the circle bigger) small small small! (students make the circle smaller) sit down sit down! round and round! (students walk around in a circle holding hands) up up up, down down down! (holding hands students reach up and all the way down) spin spin spin! The list goes on.

Feel free to email me at ajarnron(at)yahoo.com. I have a few more PE games and activities. I would love to share more ideas that you could in turn share with everyone. Don’t really have time to start my own blog.

Thanks Again. Ron

Hi Ron, good to hear you found the ideas useful. I’ve emailed you about more ideas that I can stick on the blog. That circle game one sounds right up my street, good fun and simple to explain.

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Hello again from Thailand! At my current school we have a lot of moveable playground equipment. Slides and what not. I use these along with what ever I can find around the school, cones, small boxes, thick mats, etc. I use all of these things to create an obstacle course for the kids. I have them slide down the slide, jump over the boxes, zig-zag around the cones, roll on the mats, and crawl under a table, and balance on a bench. It works great! You can switch it up. The kids never get tired of doing it! Well they will get tired but never bored!

Another good one if you have a large TV or Projector that you can use. Check youtube for Yoga for kids. Tons of videos on their. The Students love it!

One more for today. I call it chair ball. You will need 2 baskets or boxes, lots of small plastics balls like you find in a ball room for kids. Most schools will have these. If not you can use just about anything really. Toys, blocks, etc. I usually do teams of boys vs. girls. It gets them really pumped up. One student from each team is on opposite sides with the basket standing on a chair. Pick 2-5 students from each team. Throw the objects in the middle. Students have to grab the objects one by one and put them in the baskets. Team with the most objects wins! Awesome!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this. I started a homeschool cooperative and have 18 kids coming tomorrow on our first day. It has been A LOT of work and I haven’t had a lot of time to plan for the last hour of co-op when we are in the gym. This post saved my life and your wonderful tips make me feel confident I can pull it off. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Thanks for the comment, really glad to hear that you found the ideas useful! Good luck with the kids!

Your suggestions have been so helpful to me!!! Thank you thank you thank you! I’m teaching a coop group of K-2 graders and I have lots of heart but no experience. So relieved and excited to give these a try. Your ideas are perfect because I have little to no money to spend on equipment. Your ideas give me time to figure out what I really would like to purchase if any. Guess I need a whistle!

Hey PEmom, Thanks for commenting. Glad to hear you liked the ideas!

I would love to add a game that I play with my kindergarten class at the beginning of the school year. It’s called Fire and Ice (hot and cold). I use blue pool noodles (cut in half) for tagging games so kids don’t have to get close to each other to tag– which results in falling down, tripping etc. I use small red gator balls, kitten balls or bean bags for the FIRE. We all start out walking because they will crash if they run. The blue ICE tags a student and they stand “frozen” with their hands out in front of them like a bowl. People with the red ball will run over and place the ball gently in their “bowl” to melt them. Then that person can say Thank You and go find their own person to thaw. This fosters an environment of teamwork, observation skills, kindness. I demonstrate with 3 kids and even have them shiver when they are frozen. The kids who are the FIRE take such pride in being a helper or rescuer! After about a minute, we switch the taggers. I tell them up front not everyone will get the chance to be a tagger (ICE) but it’s more important to rescue anyway so you will all the the RED ball. I use 3-4 blue noodles and 3-4 red balls. I did your Tee Pee pencil today– loved it!

Great Ideas and thanks so much for sharing

Im actually teaching in Taiwan and have been volunteered as the go-to PE teacher. Anyway I can add something to your Tee-Pee Pencil Game.

You can add some multi-child formations: 2 kids form a motorbike (by just holding hands), three kids make a rowboat (2 hold hands around the third – who is in the boat), 4 make a car and so on. This way if you do want to use it elimination style, you can call an even number formation say ‘Motorbike’ when there is an odd number of kids and vice versa . That way ensuring that you eliminate one child in each round.

I like the multi-child option! I’ll add it in soon.

Thanks, Michael

Thank you so much for sharing! The kids loved these activities.

Dodgeball with soft, round dog toys works well with 6/7 year olds.

Park Ranger – all kids have little cards – either snakes, birds, or cats and either red, yellow, green, or blue – to allow for larger class sizes. Two kids in the middle are Park Rangers. Teacher calls out gender, color, animal, class name, etc. – Call out everyone when numbers get small. Rangers tap children running across.

Monster Island – works best with kindergarten jungle gym, but it’s basically an obstacle course. Hot dog rolls, slither like a snake, hopscotch, backwards walk, through the jungle gym and down the slide, etc. Colored tape can map out the route. If you have a large mat, then it can be used as a lifeboat. Children would leap from the previous article to the mat. All kids have to stay on the mat until everyone has caught up. Teacher models how to go through. Children begin with the ominous warning monsters are coming and they have to traverse the route quickly. Chairs could be set in rows to mimic a spaceship or helicopter that would take them away from Monster Island.

These games seem really fun. Thank you so much….I would like to sign up with your blog to get more ideas.

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How To Get Kids Moving: 35 PE Lesson Plans

Do you wish you had PE lesson plans ready to follow? Having a bunch of ideas to draw from makes it a lot easier to get through your PE lessons.

Do you groan when it comes time for physical education? Or maybe just wish you had PE lesson plans ready to follow without having to come up with ideas to get kids moving? Having a bunch of ideas to draw from makes it a lot easier to get through your PE lessons.

I break my PE ideas down into seven categories:

  • Basic skills
  • Early morning fitness
  • Modified sports
  • Indoor games

Let’s take a look at each. 

PE Lesson plans for basic skills

Basic skills are those students will need to participate in sports and sporting activities: catch, skipping, soccer pass, sprint run, overarm throw. Because some of the other PE lesson plans assume students can do these basic skills, starting with them is a great way to start the year. You could work through the five skills or pick one and then choose a PE lesson plan from one of the other areas that uses that skill. 

Here’s an example of a PE Lesson Plan for Catching that is appropriate for lower to middle primary or grades K–5. 

You’ll need this equipment: tennis balls, larger balls (netball for students having difficulties), beanbags and oval.

Start with a warm up.

Students select an object (ball or beanbag) and find a space by themselves. Have them throw the ball high into the air and clap once before catching the ball. Next have them try to clap twice and continue to see how many times they can clap and still catch the object.

Progress with the skill.

Have the students form pairs with one ball between two. (Begin with a larger ball and decrease the size as the students become more confident). Students throw to one another and practise their catching . Encourage students to throw slow and easy. Remind them that they want their partner to catch the ball. 

When they have mastered this, they can throw the ball higher or faster so the person receiving the ball needs to position themselves correctly to make the catch. Use a smaller ball to add difficulty.

Try a skill-based game.

Set the students up in a circle with one person located on the outside of the circle. Students in the circle throw a large ball around the circle, while the student on the outside runs in the opposite direction .The student running must attempt to beat the ball back to the starting position. Again, begin with a larger ball and decrease the size when the students become more competent.

Do you wish you had PE lesson plans ready to follow? Having a bunch of ideas to draw from makes it a lot easier to get through your PE lessons.

PE lesson plans for early morning fitness

If you don’t have a lot of time for PE, these early morning fitness plans are a great way to get it done. Each lesson is short (only 15 minutes maximum). The benefit comes from completing them every day. This can be a great energizing start to the day. 

Early morning fitness PE lesson plans include:

  • Aerobic dance
  • Circuit training
  • Cross country run
  • Obstacle course

For some of these events, like circuit training, students will record their results and try to beat them the next time they complete the activity. 

Circuit training is appropriate for all levels. You’ll need a little bit of equipment, including skipping ropes, step, hoops, and an oval or playing field. You’ll also want a timer/stopwatch and tracking sheets with pens or pencils for students to record their results. The good news is you can adapt your circuit based on the space and equipment you have, and some activities require no equipment. 

Warm up for circuit training should be stretches of all parts of the body. 

Circuit training builds strength and flexibility. Students make their way through the different stations of the circuit with a set time on each station. The amount of time can vary based on the age of students. Station ideas for the circuit include: 

  • Run 20 metres
  • Jumping in and out of hoops

Have students record their results for each station. The next time you do circuit training, students should try and beat their own results. 

Do you wish you had PE lesson plans ready to follow? Having a bunch of ideas to draw from makes it a lot easier to get through your PE lessons.

PE lesson plans for modified sports

While students may simply want to play sports that they know like soccer and tennis, they may not have the skills to play yet – and sometimes the court or field may be too large for younger players. PE lesson plans for modified sports give students the feel of playing sports they know with some age-appropriate modifications.

Take for example Mini-Basketball, which is appropriate for middle to upper primary students. You’ll need basketballs, a basketball court, markers, chalk, and buckets.

Set up markers to dive the court into thirds. Have students line up along one side of the court. Students skip across the first third of the court, run the second third, and skip sideways for the final third. Repeat 2–3 times. 

Have students practice dribbling, a key skill in basketball. If you have an outdoor basketball court, ask students to identify all the letters in the alphabet that have straight lines. Choose some of these letters and have students draw large versions on the court. Then students take turns dribbling on the lines of the letters of the alphabet. Children begin walking and then move to a slow run while dribbling. You can eventually build up to alternating hands. If you are using an indoor gym and cannot draw letters on the court, you can have students use the lines of the court to dribble along. 

Divide students into four teams for a relay. Set up the relay like this: a marker partway up the court and a bucket three metres further up the court, then have a line of markers for students to dribble in and out of that leads to the free throw line (or a line marked in chalk or tape closer to the net for younger students). 

The first student dribbles the ball to the first maker on the court. There they stop and shoot the ball into the bucket. If the ball goes in the bucket that person has scored two points for the team. The person retrieves the ball and dribbles in and out of the markers. They then dribble the ball to the free throw (or closer) line and take a shot. If the ball goes in, they score three points. If the ball touches the rim but does not fall in they score is two points. The person dribbles the ball back to the team and it is the next student’s turn. The team with the most points in a specified time is the winner. 

Other popular modified sports include freeball, mini-soccer, mini-tennis, nettaball, and tee-ball. 

Do you wish you had PE lesson plans ready to follow? Having a bunch of ideas to draw from makes it a lot easier to get through your PE lessons.

PE lesson plans for athletics

PE lesson plans for athletics are great for students who may be interested in track and field and can be used on athletic carnival days. Think javelin, long jump, relay, and shot put. To use shot put in a PE class, you’ll need an oval or playing field, markers, shot puts (you can use different size and weight balls), a bucket, and tracking sheets with pencils.

Give each student a tennis ball. Demonstrate the correct shot put technique and have them use it to push the ball into a bucket or over a certain height. Have them try with both their preferred and nonpreferred hand.

Place markers at equal distances on the field. Students use a shot put or balls of various sizes to put over the first line and continue to see how far they can put. Have them record their results and attempt to improve the distance next time. Students can record the results with the various objects they use to put.

Place large and small balls randomly on the field. Divide students into teams. Give each team a set amount of time to put. The students put the shot put so that it hits one of the balls. If students hit a large ball, the team scores one point and if they hit a small ball, the team scores two points. Teams record their results. If time permits, teams can take another turn. The team with the highest score wins.

Do you wish you had PE lesson plans ready to follow? Having a bunch of ideas to draw from makes it a lot easier to get through your PE lessons.

PE lesson plans for dance

Dance is great because it can happen anywhere. For students who do not thrive on competition, dance is a great physical activity. PE lesson plans for dance can include a chance for improvisation and learning the steps to a structured dance. I use these dances in my PE lesson plans: Cobbler’s Dance, Hokey Pokey, Let The Feet Go Tramp, Shoo Fly, Springtime On the Farm. 

Shoo-fly is a great dance activity for lower primary/K–3 students that provides both improvisation and fixed steps and helps students express moods. You’ll need space for students to dance along with a tambourine and a variety of types of music. 

Play the tambourine. Ask the children to move around the room to the beat. Change the speed and encourage students to adapt their movement. 

Have students spread out, each with their own space. Say a word related to an emotion, such as happy, sad, angry, upset, joyful, excited. Ask students to act in a way that represents the emotion. You can extend this idea by playing music with different moods and asking students to respond. 

Divide students into partners. Pairs form a single circle. Play music for “Shoo, Fly, Don’t Bother Me.” Students can sing as they move. 

Everyone walks 4 steps toward the center , swinging the arms up, singing “Shoo, fly, don’t bother me.” Then they all walk 4 steps backward , swinging the arms downward and backward, again singing, “Shoo, fly, don’t bother me.” They repeat walking in and out, singing, “Shoo, fly, don’t bother me, for I belong to somebody.” 

Partners then join both hands and turn clockwise on the spot , singing “I feel, I feel, I feel, I feel, I feel like a morning star. I feel, I feel, I feel, I feel.” The partner on the left drops the right hand as they pass the partner on the right under the left arm so that they move clockwise to the next person in the circle , singing “I feel like a morning star.” The dance is repeated with a new partner. 

Do you wish you had PE lesson plans ready to follow? Having a bunch of ideas to draw from makes it a lot easier to get through your PE lessons.

PE lesson plans for gymnastics

PE lesson plans for gymnastics cover body awareness, body control, flexibility, locomotion, and strength. This is another great set of activities for students who thrive on less competition. 

You can work with body awareness without equipment. All you need is a safe space. Here’s a PE lesson plan designed for lower primary/K–3 students. 

Have students find their own space in the room. Have each student try to find out how far they can stretch their arms and legs in various directions. Explain that this is their own personal space . If students find they are touching each other during this warm up, encourage them to move until they have personal space that doesn’t interfere with others’ personal space. 

Have children sit or lie on the floor. Ask students to make different shapes for example, you might say “wavy as a snake”. Students would move like a snake along the floor. Some other examples could be to move “straight as a nail,” “commando crawl,” “swim like an Olympic swimmer.” Remind students to be aware of their personal space as they move. 

Simon says is a great way to practice this skill. Use commands like you did in the earlier exercise, but if you don’t say Simon Says, then students must continue to complete the previous movement. If you call Simon Says with a movement, the students change to the new action. 

Do you wish you had PE lesson plans ready to follow? Having a bunch of ideas to draw from makes it a lot easier to get through your PE lessons.

PE lesson plans for indoor games

Ideally, PE gives students a chance to really move around outside or in a gym with plenty of space, but sometimes you won’t have that space. PE lesson plans for indoor games give you ideas for games that can be played in the classroom. These are also great ideas if you have inclement weather and hold recess indoors, or used for transitions when your class finishes work quickly, or for a refresher to motivate students.

Indoor games do not take much time to set up and use limited equipment. Some of the games I include in my repertoire are Do As I Do, Hide In Sight, Magic Carpet, Missing People, and Posture Tag. 

Because these indoor activities have a lower level of physical activity, no warm up is needed. You can use a warm up and have students try different types of movement, such as walk, tiptoe, march, or skip in place.

Mark four magic carpets equal distance apart. Identify a pathway in the classroom around which the players will walk, tiptoe or skip between the magic carpets. Have students move around the room. Practice keeping enough space between students (students should not be running into the person in front of them). 

To play the Magic Carpet game, clap your hands or use a percussion instrument or music. While you do so, students walk around the pathway in time with the clapping or music. When you call “freeze” and stop clapping, students freeze in place. Any player standing on a magic carpet is “out.” When students are out, they take a seat in the center. Repeat this process until there are only a few students remaining. To keep students in the center engaged and active, they can march or do some other activity in time with the clapping or music.

Do you wish you had PE lesson plans ready to follow? Having a bunch of ideas to draw from makes it a lot easier to get through your PE lessons.

More PE lesson plans

My PE lesson plans list equipment needed, age, skill, and all the directions I need. I keep them laminated, ready to pull and carry with me to wherever my PE class is happening. PE lesson plans include:

  • Warm up ideas
  • Skill practices
  • Suitable year level/s

I’ve got 35 PE lesson plans to last you the whole year, ready to print, laminate, and use. 

You’ll be all set to get kids moving with Physical Education Lesson Plans . 

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Kindergarten Physical Education

These are the rhythm and moves physical education lessons for kindergarten.  the concept or skill should remain the focus for the week.  if you see your children more than once per week there are additional lessons or “part 3” activities that you can use to reinforce the concept.  most of the concepts can be used across all three disciplines of movement; educational dance, educational games and educational gymnastics..

Boundary Set up

Week 02   Travel & Stop;  Travel & Stop (b)

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Week 05 Locomotor Traveling

Bean-Bags

Week 07 Directions; Forward, Backward & Sideways

Week 08 Levels; Low, Medium & High

Balance Knee

Week 10 Balance: Single Body Part s

Balance on 4 parts

Week 14 Ball Handling: Avoiding the opponent & Dribbling w/Feet

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Week 17 Ball Handling: Overhand Throw

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Week 19 Weight Transference: Rolling Sideways and Forward

Week 20 Exploring Jumping – Jumping, balance & rolling sequencing; Jumping over a moving Rope

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Week 22  Striking; a stationary ball

Week 23  Striking with a Hockey Stick or Foam Stick

Week 24  Effort; Fast Vs Slow, Balloon Dance

Week 25 Galloping, Skipping, and Sliding to Music

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Week 27  Ball Handling: Kicking

Week 28  Ball Handling: Kicking & Dribbling

Week 29  Ball Handling: Throwing to the Wall w/Hands

Week 30    Dribble Mania – Feet, Hands & Implement

Week 31   Ball Handling: Dribbling & Shooting a Basketball

Week 32 Ball Handling: in relation to Levels

Week 33 Parachute

Week 34 Parachute

Week 35 Playground & Park Games

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  1. FREE 10+ Physical Education Lesson Plan Samples in PDF

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  2. Pre-kindergarten Physical Education Year Long Lesson Plans by Physed

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  3. FREE 10+ Physical Education Lesson Plan Samples in PDF

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  5. 7+ Physical Education Lesson Plan Templates

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  1. P.E. Lesson Plans

    Physical education prepares children for an active and healthy life while improving self discipline and reducing stress. This section includes PE lessons from kindergarten through high school spanning different skill levels and objectives. Lessons are categorized by grade for easy retrieval. These lessons were created by real teachers working ...

  2. How to Teach Kindergarten Students in PE Class

    Patience is key. Do not get upset with yourself or them if they make a mistake. Do not take it personal. They are learning everyday like we are. Being able to teach with another teacher gives me a chance to have one on one conversations with students if they do make a mistake. Play to learn mindset.

  3. Lesson Plans for Physical Education Teachers/PE Central

    Physical Education Lesson Plans and Activity Ideas. You will find thousands of physical education lesson plans and ideas submitted by hundreds of Physical Education professionals! You may also be looking for helpful worksheets. View our lesson plan and idea criteria and copyright statement before sharing a lesson plan or idea with us. Classroom ...

  4. Kindergarten Archives

    Kindergarten and spatial awareness. One of my main objectives with my kindergarten classes is to teach them spatial . Read More Fire and Ice Tag game. My first and second graders love tag games. This is a fun spin on frozen tag. Read More Scoops and Balls. scoops and balls This post has permanently been moved here. Read More "UNO" warm-up game

  5. Free Lesson Plans

    SPARK Sample Lesson Plans The following pages include a collection of free SPARK Physical Education and Physical Activity lesson plans. If you're searching for lesson plans based on inclusive, fun PE-PA games or innovative new ideas, click on one of the links below. ASAP Snakes and Lizards Lesson Plan Field Day Activity Centipede Pass Manipulatives […]

  6. PEC: Lesson Plans for Physical Education

    Pre-school PE Lesson Ideas Traveling and Locomotor Skills Animal Actions: PRE-K: 133,938 1/21/2010 Pre-school PE Lesson Ideas Integration Parachute Color Match: Preschool: 108,523 3/5/2009 Pre-school PE Lesson Ideas Body and Space Awareness Copy Cat: PRE-K: 178,340 11/12/2008 Pre-school PE Lesson Ideas

  7. Locomotor and Manipulative Skills

    Locomotor and Manipulative Skills. (Primary K-2) This module includes activities that are designed to develop and reinforce several locomotor and manipulative skills. All of the basic locomotor skills, static and dynamic balancing, as well as underhand tossing, rolling, and catching are addressed. Other learning outcomes are also addressed ...

  8. Instant Activities(Elementary K-5)

    Instant Activities. (Elementary K-5) Created by Aaron Hart, Jim DeLine, Josh Enders, Brandon Herwick, Lynn, Hefele, Jenna Knapp, Nick Kline, Andy Pickett, Andrea Hart, RD, Dan Tennessen, Nichole Wilder. Physical educators know and understand the need to get students active and engaged as soon as they enter the PE classroom.

  9. PE Central

    PE Central Online Courses. Learn More! Practical, proven lesson plans written and submitted by real teachers and approved by our expert editorial team! Helpful online courses and information for the physical education teacher who wants to continue to develop and grow! View all 79 Resources!

  10. Kindergarten Physical Education Lesson Plan Template

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  11. 20 Simple Ideas for Kindergarten P.E. with Minimal Equipment

    Also, think about the level your pupils are at currently and if they can participate in the activity safely. 1. STAR JUMPS. Say 'Arms out!' and jump, landing with your arms and legs out like a star. Shout 'Arms in!' and jump, landing so you are stood up straight with your arms at you side.

  12. Teachers Toolbox Elementary PE

    Teacher's Toolbox. Download free resources for elementary school physical education teachers that align with SHAPE America's National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education. These PE tools can help you build an effective physical education program to put all children on the path to health and physical literacy and ...

  13. Kindergarten physical education resources

    Over 100 PE group games, activities, skills, drills, and lesson ideas for your K-2's: Develop the fundamental • Striking • Moving • Bouncing • Throwing & Catching • Kicking • skills - great inside your sports hall or out on the fieldThe TOP SELLING product, the Kindergarten to Grade 2 PE Sport Skills and Games Pack, has been developed after years of elementary teaching around the ...

  14. kindergarten physical education lesson plans

    Months, days, hours of building, creating, and enhancing has been completed!Mr. Clark's Physical Education 2017 Yearly Plan Full Edition (K-5th Grade) has arrived!!!-40 Jam-packed weeks of Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd,4th, and 5th grade fully detailed Elementary Physical Education Lesson Plans-486 Full Pages of Completely New Lessons, New Ideas ...

  15. How To Get Kids Moving: 35 PE Lesson Plans

    Place large and small balls randomly on the field. Divide students into teams. Give each team a set amount of time to put. The students put the shot put so that it hits one of the balls. If students hit a large ball, the team scores one point and if they hit a small ball, the team scores two points.

  16. Early Childhood (Ages 3-5)

    In an effort to afford early childhood education providers equity of access to the highest-quality movement education programming,OPEN has launched a content development effort with the help of some of the nation's most respected physical education and early childhood content specialists. EC Development Council: Aaron Hart, Nick Kline, Helena Baert, Diane Craft, Andrea Hart EC Content ...

  17. Pe Lesson Plan For Kindergarten Teaching Resources

    Bundle. This resource is a K-5 Yearly Plan PE Mega Bundle at a discounted price! Enjoy this resource for basically $1 a lesson, and that's not even counting all the bonus resources!-Includes Top-Selling K-5 Yearly Plan (2017) and my Brand New K-5 Yearly Plan (2018)-160 Fresh weeks of Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade fully ...

  18. Kindergarten Physical Education

    These are the Rhythm and Moves physical education lessons for Kindergarten. The concept or skill should remain the focus for the week. If you see your children more than once per week there are additional lessons or "Part 3" activities that you can use to reinforce the concept. Most of the concepts can be used across all three….

  19. PE Central: Grades K-2 Physical Education Lesson Plans

    PE Central presents a large number of K-2 lesson ideas for you to use in your physical education program. If published, you are entered into monthly drawing to win a FREE 6-pack of 8" Gator Skin Special Foam Balls from S&S Discount Sports. Rules. Select a sub-category from the list below.

  20. PEC: Lesson Plans for Physical Education

    PEC's Lesson Idea Quick Search. Displaying record (s) 1 through 50 of 299 record (s) that match your search criteria. There are 50 record (s) listed on this page. MARBLES! Ostrich, Turtle, Penguin! A memory game! PE Central is a web site that provides information about developmentatally appropriate physical education practices and programs.

  21. Free physical education unit plans

    I have provided a copy of my PE-4-KIDS Physical Education Lesson Plan Template. A great resource for the beginning and veteran teacher. ... *This product includes grades Kindergarten through 4th grade* K - 4 th. Physical Education. FREE. Rated 5 out of 5, based on 5 reviews. 5.0 (5) Add to Cart. Wish List. Health - Mental Health Unit, Lessons ...

  22. Kindergarten Physical Science Lesson Plans

    Kindergarten Physical Science Lesson Plans. Help your students' reasoning skills grow with this activity that has them make educated guesses on whether or not an item will be attracted to a magnet. Click the checkbox for the options to print and add to Assignments and Collections. Introduce your students to the scientific concept of sink or ...

  23. PEC: Lesson Plans for Physical Education

    Pre-school PE Lesson Ideas. Striking with Implements. Baseball Word Search Instant Activity. PRE-K. 28,506. 3/5/2019. K-2 PE Lesson Ideas. Locomotor Skills/Space Awareness. Continental Drift Locomotor Skills.