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Tired of Counting in English?
Want to learn to count to 10 in Japanese? Swahili? Russian?
And over 4000 other languages? With this web site, you can
spend the entire school year spicing up your warm-ups and other
activities that require counting and inject a healthy dose of multiculturalism
and language arts in the process.
Click here
to become a polyglot!.
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| Bring Math and Movement
Together
Get students--individually and in groups--to learn and apply
mathematical relationships in a movement setting. Using
a site provided by Harcourt Brace, select a grade level;
a glossary of terms/concepts/ relationships is provided
on your left in scroll down fashion. Using a guided discovery
or some indirect teaching style, announce a problem to
students that they must solve using various locomotor, grouping,
and nonlocomotor skills. For example, students can form
"congruent triangles" by skipping from a starting
point to a gathering point, identifying and then assembling
group members, and communicating with other triangles to ensure
equal length sides. Students can get their work reinforced
by observing a visual and mathematical display in the center
of the web page which can be projected using a laptop/LCD display.
Click here
for Harcourt Brace web link.
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Have students play Scrabble like never before! In Aerobic
Scrabble students practice spelling, word formation, and strategy
at a breakneck pace. A great addition to fitness units or
an alternative warmup.
Click here for ready-to-print
instructions and scoresheet.
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Kids' Shows' Music, Computers,
and Dance!
We know our students watch TV
and--for many--plenty of it. The PBS shows "Dragon Tales,"
"Arthur," and "Barney" showcase age appropriate
music that can be found at the PBS kids web site. This music
is featured on the shows and is typically coupled with dances that
really get kids moving. Students can access the songs directly
from the computer as they develop computer literacy and they can
be downloaded and burned to CDs. Bringing students' "pop
world" into physical education class can motivate students,
provide already familiar songs to workout or dance to, and references--in
a crude way--basic cultural studies.
Click here
for PBS Kids.
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Getting Ready to Incorporate the Winter Olympics?
The 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City are 4 months away.
This quadrennial event offers us a great opportunity to learn about
other countries in conjunction with winter sport units. In
addition to just learning about and practicing winter sports, we
can set up a mini-Olympiad complete with opening and closing ceremonies.
At these times students, representing different countries, can present
their country's flag and interesting information about their adopted
homelands (especially information relevant to physical education,
e.g. life expectancy). This information can be found for over
190 countries at Country Watch--a CNN-sponsored web site.
Click here to
begin your world tour!
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