This week for the Featured PE Teacher section on the PE Central Facebook page, the spotlight is on Ryan Reichel! About Ryan: I teach a total of 300 students, from young fives to 9th grade at Ishpeming Public Schools in Michigan. … Read More
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Featured PE Teacher – Emily Leffelman
This week for the Featured PE Teacher section on the PE Central Facebook page, the spotlight is on Emily Leffelman! About Emily: I teach Kindergarten through 8th grade Physical Education and 8th grade Health Education at Van Orin Elementary School and … Read More
Bucket Stilts Relay & Thornbush Madness – PE Activities for K-2
PE Teacher Drew Burris shares 2 activities he uses with his K-2 grade classes to build skills like balancing, hand eye coordination, locomotor movement, and pathways and directions Activity 1: Bucket Stilts Relay Skills: Balancing & Hand Eye Coordination Equipment: … Read More
Featured PE Teacher – Scott Power
This week for the Featured PE Teacher section on the PE Central Facebook page, the spotlight is on Scott Power! About Scott: I teach kindergarten through 5th grade at Schmalz Elementary in Katy ISD. Katy ISD is right outside of Houston. … Read More
How Achilles Kids Can Inspire Special Education PE Classes
Two years ago, I was working at a summer day camp where I began talking to a co-worker about programs that we used with our students. I told her that I was a runner and I used the programs through … Read More
Featured PE Teacher – Taralynn Lorance
This week for the Featured PE Teacher section on the PE Central Facebook page, the spotlight is on Taralynn Lorance: About Taralynn: I am a Physical Education Specialist at Wainwright Intermediate, Tacoma School District, Tacoma, WA. I teach 6th and 7th … Read More
Featured PE Teacher – Carli Kelly
This week for the Featured PE Teacher section on the PE Central Facebook page, the spotlight is on Carli Kelly: About Carli: I teach Early Kindergarten – 6th grade PE and High School Health. I teach about 400 kids at Norway-Vulcan Area … Read More
Pathways and Directions Stations PE Activity for Grades K-2
This year, my coworker and I decided to have our students participate in stations that worked on pathways and directions. Pathways and directions are components of our Space Awareness Unit. These two components focused on TN standards “travels in five … Read More
PE Plickers Magnets for Student Engagement
Plickers magnet assessment, or “plagnets” for short, have been taking the Physical Education community by storm these past few months. Magnet assessment as an idea came from Joey Feith (PhysicalEducator.com), and he got the idea from teachers using SOLO Taxonomy … Read More
Fitness Tic Tac Toe Activity for PE
Nebraska Extension is a nationally respected educational leader. Extension delivers research-based knowledge to people through direct teaching, experiential learning opportunities and publications. One of the program areas offered by Nebraska Extension is Food, Nutrition, and Health. My job as an … Read More