Bret Harkness

The Gross Motor Skill Guide would be a good resource for a beginning teacher. It includes individual and small group activities for developing motor skills. The activities include catching, rolling, throwing, dribbling, kicking, striking, jump rope, jumping jacks, balance, midline, spatial awareness locomotor, strength building, scooters, and form running. Samples of some of these activities are available for free at my store so that you can see what is in the guide. I used many of these activit

This is a unit plan for the novel Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief. It is aligned with ELA common core standards.

The following activites can be used to help a student develop the necessary skill of crossing midline.

Here you will find 1 Early Childhood Gross Motor Checklist, 1 Elementary Gross Motor Checklist, and a Fine and Gross Motor Screening Checklist. The screening is perfect for finding out what gross and fine motor concerns your child or student may have. The two gross motor checklists are a valuable tool for IEP present levels of performance and for determining whether or not to offer services such as adaptive physical education.

These are activities for developing bilateral coordination skills in your classroom. Many can be done as "brain breaks" right at the student's desks. These are perfect for younger children.

This is a differentiated activity menu for fourth grade common core. It is designed for use with the fractions section. Specifically 4.NF.1, 4.NF.2, 4.NF.3., 4.NF.4, 4.NF.5, 4.NF.6. These are all designed as projects and can be presented to a class and aligned with speaking and listening standards. I also have a Differentiated Activity Menu available for converting fractions to decimals aligned with fifth grade common core located in my store.

This menu gives students six activities to choose from when practicing converting fractions to decimals and vice versa. Their is also an attached rubric for scoring.

This is a good resource for Physical Education, Adaptive Physical Education, and Early Childhood teachers who want to teach locomotor skills. It provides cue words and phrases for basic locomotor skills.

These games and activities are great for developing balance in children. This is for use in physical education, adaptive physical education, physical therapy, early childhood, and special education settings.

This powerpoint contains components of physical education and health, structuring a motor skill program, activities and games, developmental milestones, classroom and recess best practices, and intervention ideas. It was developed as a training for an inservice.

This is a thinking hats activity on the topic of personal computers. It is designed to be used in small groups or as a whole class activity depending on how you want to divide your group. It comes with a mini rubric attached. The materials needed are an old desktop or laptop computer tower and a computer with internet connectivity. Writing materials are optional depending on whether you use it as a written activity or a speaking activity.

Adaptations and accommodations for physical education activites in the general setting.

Powerpoint, useful for inservices, classwork, or just educational materials for teachers interetested in basic strategies and principals for helping students be successful in reading, writing, and mathematics from a cognitive viewpoint.

Students practice tossing and catching a variety of objects while moving from hula hoop to hula hoop while directed by music.

This is a differentiation activity table addressing 5.MD.A.1.