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Infographic
Recess Rights
This emphasizes the vital importance of recess as a fundamental right for every child, highlighting its role in fostering physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development. By advocating for inclusive play environments and sufficient recess time, it calls on educators and policymakers to recognize and protect the essential benefits that unstructured play provides in the educational experience.
Reflection Booklet
Exit Tickets
Exit cards, or tickets, are meaningful for student learning as they empower students to reflect on their understanding, seek clarification when needed, and help teachers determine the necessary next steps to enhance their learning journey. This booklet contains 8 different exit cards.
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Movement Cards
Space Cards (Movement Education)
Seven total cards to help students explore and understand Laban's Movement Concept: Space - "Where the body moves". This resource contains level cards - high, medium, & low. Additionally, pathway cards are included such as zigzag, curved, circular, and straight.
Self-Reflection
Adventure Challenges - Self Reflection
An example self-reflection students might complete during an Adventure Challenges unit. Could be done following a learning engagement or when reflecting on their learning over the course of an entire unit. Make a copy here.
Visuals
Relationships - Movement Education
Visuals to help students explore a variety of relationship terms in all areas of PE. Over/under, in/out, through/around, etc., visual cards to provide a means of representation of the different ways we can move in relation to our body, someone else, and/or equipment.
Student Reflection
End of Year Reflection
Provide students the opportunity to reflect on all of the units that occurred over the course of the school year. This can help guide your planning for the next year. Below, you can download an example but if you click here, you can copy and edit your own.
Student Reflection
Self-Reflection
Here is a quick self-reflection students can complete at the end of a lesson or perhaps even at the end of a unit. Three questions where students have the option of writing or drawing their responses. If it works best for the student, you can also scribe the answers for the student(s). Here is the editable link (make a copy and edit).
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Teaching & Planning Visual
Meaningful PE
& Fitness
Fitness testing is found in many PE programs around the world. Sometimes, it does more harm than good. This visual provides information and recommendations around fitness testing guided by the features of Meaningful PE. Check out the Meaningful PE website here for more information.
Movement Visual
Locomotor & Non-Locomotor Movements
Locomotor movements and non-locomotor (stability) movements help make up some of the fundamental movement skills learned in Physical Education. How do you promote the exploration and development of these movements?
*Download contains a non-locomotor (1) and locomotor visual (1).
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Activity Sheet (Adventure Challenge)
Puzzle Pieces
Students explore working with a partner. Students safely find a matching puzzle piece (download here) with another student using communication skills.
