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Boomerang
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Learners trace, cut out and fly a boomerang, outdoors or in a large indoor space.
Thrown For A Curve: Pitch Like A Big Leaguer
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You may have tried to throw a curveball or a slider, or even a screwball, with an ordinary baseball and found it difficult to do.
Frog Olympics
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Did you know that a bullfrog can jump a distance of 10 times its body length? Learn more about nature's most acrobatic amphibian, the frog, through this set of short, hands-on activities.
Finding the Sweet Spot
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In this activity, learners will discover how to find the "sweet spots" on a baseball bat. Whenever an object is struck, it vibrates in response.
What Counts in Bounce
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In this activity learners compare the bounciness of warm and cold racquetballs to see if temperature makes a difference in how well they bounce.
Extra Bounce
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In this indoor or outdoor demonstration, use a large and small ball to illustrate conservation of energy and momentum.
Balance Challenge
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In this quick activity, learners take a balance challenge to measure their average balance time. As they collect data, they investigate how practice and repetition improve their balance time.
Work for Your Money
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In this math activity, learners earn "money" by completing simple tasks. Learners complete as many "jobs" as possible in a set amount of time.
Moving to a Healthier Life
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This game presents you with several different choices you can make in the course of your everyday life to increase your level of physical activity and be healthier.
Sock It To Me
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In this activity, learners discover how sweating makes us feel cooler. Learners put on one damp sock and one dry sock and sit in front of a fan.
Work Up An Appetite
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In this activity, learners participate in fun movement activities while playing on a giant game board. Use this activity to get learners involved in physical activity.
Ins and Outs of Respiration: Determine your Respiratory Rate
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Learners will determine their respiratory rate and explore the factors that affect breathing rate by filling out and using the Respiratory Chart provided in the lesson.
Do Sweat It!
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In this activity, learners explore why humans sweat. Learners compare the effects of heat on a balloon filled with air and a balloon filled water.
Bouncing Balls
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When baseball was in its infancy, the ball had plenty of bounce. Today's baseball may not seem to have bounce to it at all; if you drop a ball on the field it won't bounce back.
Sumo
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In this version of a Sumo wrestling bout, players use mathematical skills to move their opponent's counter beyond the track and "out of the ring." Learners reveal playing cards and the player with the
Take It in Stride
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In this health and fitness activity, learners focus on the importance of daily physical activity, specifically walking.
Jump Start
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In this movement and measurement activity, learners jump as far as they can three times, and compare their longest jump to the longest jump of their friends, classmates and/or family members.
Pop Fly
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In this design challenge activity, learners invent a way to send a Ping-Pong ball flying high enough to catch it - like football with a twist!
Reaction Time
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In this activity, learners explore reaction time and challenge themselves to improve their coordination. Do you want to move faster? Catch that ball that you never seem to see in time?
Hunger Signals
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This game explores the different reasons we choose to eat, and helps us be aware of when our body needs food and when it does not.