This resource is a balance beam lesson focusing on dismounts and balance beam movements. It includes several movements that students can do to enhance their balance, coordination, weight transfer, and directionality skills.
This lesson resource focuses on the skill of jumping and landing using boxes. Activities fall into three basic categories: approaching the box, mounting the box, and dismounting the box. Combining these variables can create a wide range of activities.
This resource includes a video demonstration of this lesson.
Students will demonstrate eight locomotor skills - walking, running, jumping, hopping, skipping, galloping, side sliding, and leaping. They will identify and move to show three different tempos - fast (presto), medium (moderato), and slow (adagio).
Students will use locomotor and non-locomotor movement to identify the form of "Trepak" from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. They will identify the A section, B section, Interlude, and Coda. Younger students will identify same and different.
This activity can be used as a warm-up activity or it can be used to practice locomotor skills and space awareness. This is also a great activity to use at the beginning of the school year because it helps students understand class rules and expectations. A video is included in this resource.
Divide the class in half. One half of the class is on the floor in push-up position and the other half is standing ready to move. On signal, the standing students move around students on the floor. The students on the floor change from a raised push-up position to a lowered push-up position each time they are circled. On signal, reverse roles.
This is a great warm up activity or can be used when teaching the components of fitness. This resource utilizes jogging but many locomotor skills could be used to reinforce locomotor movements.
A video is included in this resource.
In this activity, two lines about 40 ft apart designate a river. Each time the youngsters cross the river they must perform a different movement. This activity can be used as a warm-up or cool-down activity to begin or end the class. Additionally, this can be used to practice and reinforce locomotor movements and/or animal movements. Included in this resource is a demonstrative video.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to demonstrate jumping and landing skills. This lesson resource includes station ideas as well as learning cues for the skill of jumping rope. Additionally, this resource includes song titles to go along with the activity of jumping.
This learning activity is great for a warm-up activity, a chasing or fleeing activity, or an activity to practice specific locomotor skills. Additionally, because this game is designed so that students move along lines on the gym floor, this game can also be used to teach pathways and directionality.
The purpose of this activity is for students to enhance their locomotor skill ability of walking, running, hopping, jumping, galloping, and sliding. This activity also promotes the skill of pacing. At the end of the activity, have students check their pulse (neck, chest, & wrist) and talk about the benefits of increasing your heart rate.
Running is one of the simplest and most basic ways the human body is built to move—which is probably why it’s on almost every physical education teacher’s agenda, regardless of their students’ ages or grade levels. But just because running is fundamental doesn’t mean it has to be boring. Instead of heading out to the track to run laps, why not spice up the routine? Here are twelve fun running games for kids of all ages to try out during your next PE class!
This is a great way to assess jumping and hopping skills. As an extension, have students put together repeatable patterns using different movement concepts and locomotor skills or jump patterns.
Looking for Locomotor Skills GIFs? This folder contains GIFS that you can use as you wish along with the video version and a Slides file with all GIFs embedded. Make a copy and edit as needed! This resource can be used when demonstrating hopping, galloping, and sliding.
A cooperative game for students that incorporates the seasons (science) and activity. The following link is also needed for the task cards for this activity:
https://openphysed.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/PC-01-06-SpaceScienceConnection-ChangeSeasonTaskCard.pdf
Locomotor, balance, and throwing skills are utilized on these cards.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
This resource provides station cards to practice locomotor and manipulative skills. A self-assessment for these skills can be found using the ALEX resource "Self-Assessment for Locomotor and Manipulative Skills."
This resource provides posters that can be printed with the skills and cues that are associated with locomotor and manipulative skills.
This resource provides a self-assessment for locomotor and manipulative skills for students in K-2. Students will draw a face to show how well they think they did on a skill.
In this activity, students will practice jumping rope starting with making big wheels with their arms first. Students will start by placing their arms out in front of them and making big circles with their arms in a big wheel or "windmill" fashion. This will extend the full ROM of the shoulder joint. Students will then bend their knees each time they see their hands pass their eyes. Students will continue to do this an add a jump to the movement. Students will then get a jump rope that fits them appropriately, by holding the handles and stepping on the middle of the rope. The rope should be between the shoulders and underarms. You can tie knots in the rope if the rope is too long. Students will toss the rope from behind the heels to the front of the body and then jump over the rope (jumping rope).
In this activity, the students will be hunters or rabbits. You can choose a few hunters out of the class (for example 4-5 students). Students must all remain in the forest (which is the space the students will be in to perform the locomotor tasks). When the teacher says, "Run Rabbits Run", or "Skip Rabbits Skip", or other locomotor skills (slide, gallop, hop, etc.), the students will complete the task. If a hunter catches a rabbit, then the rabbit becomes a tree in the forest. The hunters must use the designated locomotor skill the teacher calls out when attempting to catch the rabbits. The hunters can be changed at the teacher's discretion.
This resource is a hand dribbling activity for K-2 students. This activity could work for large group activities.
In Frog Pond, students are practicing their jumping, leaping, and hopping skills by moving from one lily pad (poly spot) to another to get to the frog food (beanbags, yarn balls, etc. that are in the hula hoops in the middle of the playing area). This learning activity is used to reinforce the fundamental motor skills of jumping, hopping and leaping.
This is a free resource from PE Central. The purpose of this activity is to have students practice locomotor skills and moving safely in general space.
