Physical Education Websites

By simply typing "elementary games" into the Google search engine, you can find pages upon pages of suggestions by parents, teachers, and many others of how to set up games for multiple ages and groups of children. The only question you're going to be left with, is which one to choose? Here are three websites that provide a good start:

1. Mr Gym.com 
This website, run by an elementary school Physical Education teacher in the United States, provides you with a good variety of Phys. ed. games including sports games, cooperative games, and warm-ups. Each individual section, when clicked on, will show you a number of games relating to that topic.
For example, if you were to click on cooperative games, a list of 50 different ideas will come up, with new suggestions being added each day. Each one of these games focuses on encouraging students to work as a team in order to solve a problem, or complete the game.

The games range anywhere from Birthday games, to dance, to fitness and beyond.
As an extra added bonus, this site also includes features such as the national standard for Kindergarten through to Grade 12 (although they are not Canadian standards, the still give a basic idea), assessment, how acquire equipment at good costs, field trip ideas, and even how to build a climbing wall for your kids.


2. CanTeach
This is a Canadian site that, like the last, is a good reference for games. The main focus of this particular site is team activities for grades kindergarten and up, such as ball wrestling, "The Dragons are coming!" and snake. Because the games mentioned are for younger kids, descriptions of the games are kept in nice, easy points that make it easy to describe to a younger crowd, and the game names and characters are kept interesting to keep their attention and let them use their imagination as well.
This site also includes introductions to ball control, whether it's with your foot, your chest, or a hockey stick, or even just learning how to bounce a basketball.
The author of this site also provides those interested with information on teaching elementary students the importance of warm-ups through the use of spaghetti and collage, giving them the opportunity to do a hands on learning process.

7 dance activities are provided, as well as alternative environment activities which include outdoor forest factors.

 3. Six Great Physical Education Games My Students Loved
Although this particular site only provides 6 game options to for you to take to the students, they are all well laid out and excellent for younger students. The author also gives modification ideas to accommodate the different age groups that the game may be used with. 
All of the games provided don't necessarily work on the general skills of sports, such as dribbling and bouncing, but they do work on running skills, giving students a chance to be the 'leader' and getting them to pay attention to their surroundings in a way that they can keep up with what is happening.
I particularly liked the Treasure Chase game because it involves all of the students, and everyone is on some sort of team, meaning they have help in completing their task. The treasure giver and the treasure holder make up one team, while the rest of the students make up the next as they try and stop their fellow classmate and get a chance to be the one to make the decision of who gets to go next.

All three of these sites are great for finding a place to start when planning a PE class, or a way to gain new ideas. And, if none of these provide an idea, there are many more sources to find and explore!

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