Fair and Square : a collection of games and activities that can be played in two-metre by two-metre squares
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Fair and Square was inspired by the world events of 2020. This document is designed to provide ways to safely and effectively deliver the PHE curriculum during and after the COVID -19 pandemic. It showcases a wide range of movement activities that can be done in the gymnasium, classroom, outdoors, or online. Several do not require the sharing of equipment. All activities have the participants in their own two-metre by two-metre square.
Not just another games book : special event & theme week programming for an active school
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50 Games for Going Green
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Activate your students' interest in environmental issues with these fun physical activities! With 50 Games for Going Green: Physical Activities That Teach Healthy Environmental Concepts, teachers and youth leaders will find easy-to-present games and activities to inspire and educate students about caring for the environment. Authors Carol Scaini and Carolyn Evans have created a range of innovative activities to help students learn the value of reducing, reusing, and recycling and explore concepts of carbon footprint reduction, climate change, and global warming. 50 Games for Going Green includes * warm-up, circuit, and station activities; * physical fitness challenges, relay races, and literacy and drama activities; and * cooperative games. A special Eco-Thoughts feature offers simple take-aways with each activity, giving your students information to think about, discuss, and act on. Easily adaptable for a range of ages, abilities, and skill levels, this collection of activities will help your students get moving, thinking, and working together while learning what they can do to help the environment. 50 Games for Going Green makes learning a truly active experience and gives you creative ways to help students get their daily dose of moderate to vigorous physical activity. The activities can be played in the gym, classroom, or outdoors and require little or no equipment. Many activities repurpose everyday recyclable items for play, such as cards from recycled paper, balls from socks, and bowling pins from plastic bottles. Detailed descriptions and illustrations make it easy to understand how to teach each activity, and the game finder helps you quickly choose the right one for each class. In addition, the book's easy-to-follow format provides information for each activity on equipment and setup requirements, instructions for play, variations, and safety considerations. Taking an active learning approach to environmental stewardship makes caring for the Earth a tangible, memorable, and fun experience. By encouraging students to get active and go green, 50 Games for Going Green offers a hands-on way for students to contribute to their physical health and improve the health of their environment.
Scooter Games
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Scooters, kids, and fun are natural partners. Kids love scooting, and it's great physical activity--but, until now, few books have focused on scooter activities or provided guidance on incorporating them into the curriculum in meaningful ways. Scooter Games is an easy-to-use book that will help you find creative ways to integrate cooperative, tag, relay, team, or interdisciplinary scooter activities into your curriculum. Through the more than 100 productive and ready-to-use activities in Scooter Games, you can address the following topics: * Math, health, science, and language arts concepts * Teamwork and sportsmanship * Problem solving In doing so, you will help children improve their social, emotional, cognitive, intellectual, and physical skills. The scooter games and activities are divided into six categories: individual exploration, cooperative exploration, tag activities, relay activities, team games, and interdisciplinary games. The book contains 50 reproducibles to enhance the safety and fun and to help you assess the students. It also offers information to help you make the case for buying scooters if you don't already have them, and advice on caring for the scooters and using them safely. You can use the game finder to quickly locate the type of game you want. Scooter Games will capture kids' interest, enthusiasm, energy, and desire to remain active through their growing years. And it will help you enhance your curriculum--and become your students' all-time favorite physical education teacher!