K-5 Yearly plan
(added 7/9/23)
K-5 Yearly Plan
(added 8/3/19)
This is an updated version for the 2019-2020 school year. More info on creating a yearly plan is found below on this page.
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Digital Lesson Plan
(Added 12/29/18)
How I Teach Gymnastics
(added 2/22/18)
Using Comic Life App To Create Yearly Plan
(added 8/16/17)
K-5 Yearly Plan
(8/4/17)
I'm a big fan of revisiting skills throughout the year in Physical Education. Teaching skills (like in the sport of soccer) and then not working on them until next year made no sense to me. (Read more about my original Distributed Practice model below on this page). To that end I've revised my plans for this year. Grades K-2 have more of a traditional approach but still revisit basic skills like locomotor, balance, and movement concepts. Grades 3-5 revisit skills but utilize different activities/sports to do so.
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Google Earth Soccer Golf Course
(8/4/17)
I have always used maps when creating field day plans. It's nice to have a scale model of where stations will be set up for the day. Taking it a step further I decided to create a soccer golf course using Google Earth. It is soooo much better than a traditional map program because it gives the course an almost 3D look. I took a screenshot of the map on my iPad and then imported the image into the app Comic Life 3 where I added the graphics.
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Google Drive Lesson Plan Library
(added 8/14/16)
I love Google Drive. I love the ability to take all sorts of content (Movies, PDFs, Images, Documents) and have them all in one place. To that end, I created a Google Folder of all lesson plan ideas broken up by grade level outcome, then by grade level. The video below explains how I did it...
sportsmanship lesson (Part 1 & 2)
(added 2/19/16)
This past fall I wanted to teach my students about sportsmanship and what it looks like, sounds like, and feels like. So, I began a Google search which included YouTube. Believe it or not, I could not find one I really liked until I stumbled on the one you see below. Very old but the principles still apply today. I edited the original video and added some modern graphics. Watch the video then read below for part 2 of the Sportsmanship lesson.
sportsmanship lesson (part 2)
After my students viewed the video, we began a conversation about what good Sportsmanship looks like and sounds like. After some back and forth conversation, I then showed the video below. After letting it play for a few seconds, I paused it to ask the students about the reactions between the winning team and losing team. Most students could not tell who had won the game. In my opinion, this video exemplifies what good Sportsmanship should be: Respect for the opponent, handshakes (or hugs in this case) at the end of the game, limited celebrating by the winning team. Under the video are some posters I printed out to remind students of what good Sportsmanship looks like.
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Distributed Practice Model In physical education
(added 1/19/16, Updated 9/5/18)
Over the summer I changed schools within my own school district. I went from teaching at a PreK-2nd grade school to a K-5 school. This was not a problem seeing that my whole career I have taught students in grades K-8. That being said, I pulled out my old unit plans and started going through them so I could familiarize myself with the skills, benchmarks, and lesson plans. It was at this time I had a conversation with Mike Graham and Justin Schleider on Voxer. They were having a conversation in one of the chats about lessons plans and unit planning. Mike and Justin told me that they don't do month long units like soccer or football. Rather, they do "mini" units, touching on skills and revisiting them throughout the year. This was a huge revelation to me because I always thought you taught students in units and then covered those skills the next year and so on...at least that was what I learned in college (many moons ago).
Fast forward to a few months later. After teaching a "soccer unit" at the beginning of the year, I quickly realized I wanted to go to this distributed practice model for two reasons: 1. Students today are very different than they were when I started teaching. Providing students with a constant variety of activities keeps their interest and prevents the inevitable student who says: "Soccer again? I hate soccer!" who then comes to class dejected and unmotivated. 2. I have always been a teacher who likes to find new and different activities to teach my students. That helps keep my interest. If I'm excited to teach a concept or skill, my students will definitely sense that, and no doubt get excited too.
To that end, over the past two months I have been creating a distributed practice program for my students. To me, it makes perfect sense to teach skills throughout the year and not just at one time during that particular unit, and then not teaching them again until the following year. Does a classroom teacher just teach Math at one time of the year? No they don't. They revisit concepts and skills throughout the year. Another validation of creating this distributed practice program was something I read from SHAPE America in their "Appropriate Instructional Practice Guidelines, K-12: A Side-by-Side Comparison" document:
Fast forward to a few months later. After teaching a "soccer unit" at the beginning of the year, I quickly realized I wanted to go to this distributed practice model for two reasons: 1. Students today are very different than they were when I started teaching. Providing students with a constant variety of activities keeps their interest and prevents the inevitable student who says: "Soccer again? I hate soccer!" who then comes to class dejected and unmotivated. 2. I have always been a teacher who likes to find new and different activities to teach my students. That helps keep my interest. If I'm excited to teach a concept or skill, my students will definitely sense that, and no doubt get excited too.
To that end, over the past two months I have been creating a distributed practice program for my students. To me, it makes perfect sense to teach skills throughout the year and not just at one time during that particular unit, and then not teaching them again until the following year. Does a classroom teacher just teach Math at one time of the year? No they don't. They revisit concepts and skills throughout the year. Another validation of creating this distributed practice program was something I read from SHAPE America in their "Appropriate Instructional Practice Guidelines, K-12: A Side-by-Side Comparison" document:
In it, on page 12, it states an "Appropriate Practice" for elementary students under the section "Learning Time": "Lessons are planned to revisit skills and concepts throughout the year and from year to year, to allow for student growth and readiness."
In also states an "Inappropriate Practice":
"Skills are taught once a year during the appropriate unit, and then are ignored until the following year."
To me, that lends itself to a distributed practice program for elementary students. Below you will see what I have come up with for grades 3-5...
In also states an "Inappropriate Practice":
"Skills are taught once a year during the appropriate unit, and then are ignored until the following year."
To me, that lends itself to a distributed practice program for elementary students. Below you will see what I have come up with for grades 3-5...
national standards & grade level outcomes
(added 10/11/15)
If you have been visiting my site in the past, you know I'm a big supporter of the National Physical Education Standards and Grade Level Outcomes from SHAPE America (See the "Posters", "Assessments", and "Publications" tabs on this site for examples). I wholehearted believe that all that we do as Physical Education teachers should be united in a common language and purpose. To that end, I've created unit plan sheets that include every Grade Level Outcome on one sheet for grades K-5. I use these as I plan a unit to try and cover as many of the outcomes as I can and to also see where there are deficiencies in my lessons and units. Feel free to use them and share them. A big "Thank You" to Bart Jones for his help with this project.
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comics head app
(added 12/26/14)
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I had a very difficult time figuring out where to put this app on Phys.Ed.Review. It is an app, but in my experience in using it, I thought it can be definitely used as a lesson planning tool. First of all, the options to create your own comic book is incredible. There are a ton of characters, settings, objects, and text options within the app. Do you want to teach your students about a certain topic in Physical Education? Maybe sportsmanship, bullying, or how to stay physically active? Comics Head can help you to do that. Take a look at the comics I've created below to get an idea.
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Physical Education lesson using swivl
(added 11/13/14)
Comic Life lesson plan template
(added 10/5/14)
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It's no secret I love the Comic Life 3 app on the iPad. I use it for virtually everything (Just look around this website). To re-write my older lesson plans I've decided to use this app to do that as well. Coming soon will be a unit plan format too. Please feel free to print out and use!!! What you see below is page 1 of a 5 page lesson plan. Click on the "Lesson Plan Template PDF" to see the whole lesson plan.
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My lesson plan app
(added 7/21/14)
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Although I could have put this app under the P.E. Tool app section on this website, I though I would include it here. Basically, this application allows you to write up a lesson plan and email it in a nice, clean format. See below for an example of a lesson plan and the link to the App store.
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