Create a Classroom that Moves! Put a little active fun into your lesson plans.

• Have students practice measurement by measuring the distance traveled when jumping, leaping and hopping.
• Add a Move Memory Game - Play a memory game in which students memorize movements instead of words.
• Mathematical Jumping Jacks - Call out a math problem. Ask students to give the answer in jumping jacks
• Graphing - Ask students to measure their heart rate after a variety of activities and plot their findings on a graph
• Fitness Breaks - Take a two minute breaks between lessons. Ask students to lead or just play music and let them dance!
• Q & A Catch - The teachers asks a question and tosses the ball to a student. The student answers the question while catching, then tosses it to another student for the next answer.
• Add-verb fun - Students act out verbs such as skip, hop, jump. Have students modify the actions by adding adverbs such as rapidly, powerfully and enthusiastically.

Physical activity takes place throughout the school day...even beyond the classroom walls.

• Encourage your students to be active at recess
• Request donated used sports equipment to make activity buckets for use at recess and other breaks
• Encourage participation in school sport and intramurals
• Create an active environment by posting a bulletin board full of photos of teachers students and administration being active
• Assign this important homework... "Make sure you play!"

Got your own great ideas?...We'd love to hear them and share them with other teachers.