Dr. Michael Kester-Haynes

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Kindergarten PE Units

Unit Plan 29 (Grade K PE): Moving Safely

Kindergarten students build spatial awareness by learning to move safely in general space, maintain personal space, follow simple safety rules, and work cooperatively during fun movement challenges.

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Unit Plan 28 (Grade K PE): Favorite Games

Kindergarten students build confidence and voice in PE by engaging in class-voted favorite games, identifying what they enjoy most, and expressing simple reasons for why those activities feel fun.

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Unit Plan 27 (Grade K PE): Fitness Fun

Kindergarten students stay active and engaged through playful fitness games like “Clean the Yard,” building endurance, repeated effort, and joyful participation while moving safely.

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Unit Plan 26 (Grade K PE): Adventure Course

Kindergarten students build coordination and endurance by combining running, jumping, balancing, and crawling in fun obstacle-course adventures that promote active participation and safe movement.

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Unit Plan 25 (Grade K PE): Rhythm & Dance

Kindergarten students build confidence and joy through playful rhythm and dance activities that develop expressive movement, beat-following, safe space awareness, and enthusiastic participation in PE.

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Unit Plan 24 (Grade K PE): Choice Activities

Kindergarten students explore a variety of movement stations, identify favorite activities, and explain why they enjoy them while making safe, positive choices in PE.

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Unit Plan 23 (Grade K PE): Try Again Skills

Kindergarten students develop a growth mindset in PE by listening to simple feedback, trying skills again, and building confidence through positive, supportive practice stations.

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Unit Plan 22 (Grade K PE): Helping Teammates

Kindergarten students build teamwork skills in PE by helping classmates, taking turns, and using kind, encouraging behavior during cooperative obstacle courses and group movement challenges.

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Unit Plan 21 (Grade K PE): Safe Movers

Kindergarten students build safety awareness in PE by practicing stop-and-go signals, staying in designated areas, following simple rules, and moving safely in fun traffic-style games.

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Unit Plan 20 (Grade K PE): Jumping Fitness

Kindergarten students build endurance and active participation through fun jumping fitness games and relay stations that promote movement, energy, and safe landing skills.

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Unit Plan 19 (Grade K PE): Heart & Exercise

Kindergarten students explore how exercise affects their bodies through fun running and movement games, learning to notice faster breathing, heartbeat, and body warmth during activity.

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6-8 Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan (Grades 6-8): Disaster Map Lab - Tracking Wildfires, Floods, and Storm Patterns with Real Data

Middle school students analyze maps, data, and texts on natural hazards to identify patterns, compare regions, and design evidence-based disaster preparedness solutions.

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Unit Plan 18 (Grade K PE): Ball Skills Day

Kindergarten students build rolling, tossing, catching, and kicking skills through fun PE ball stations that promote confidence, safe practice, repetition, and joyful movement.

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Unit Plan 17 (Grade K PE): Active Games

Kindergarten students build endurance and active participation through fun tag games that promote continuous movement, quick re-entry, safe play, and joyful physical activity in PE.

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Unit Plan 16 (Grade K PE): Follow Directions

Kindergarten students build listening skills through fun Simon Says games that teach following directions, stop/go signals, safe movement, and quick response to cues in PE.

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Unit Plan 15 (Grade K PE): Partner Passing

Kindergarten students build teamwork and kindness through partner passing games that teach sharing, turn-taking, gentle ball control, and respectful cooperation in PE.

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Unit Plan 14 (Grade K PE): Target Games

Kindergarten students build rolling accuracy and target control through fun knock-down games that teach aiming, gentle vs. strong force, safe routines, and beginning object-control skills in PE.

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Unit Plan 13 (Grade K PE): Kicking Basics

Kindergarten students build foot-eye coordination and beginning kicking control through fun target games that teach toe taps, ball stopping, safe kicks, goal aiming, and confidence in PE.

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Unit Plan 12 (Grade K PE): Catching Practice

Kindergarten students build hand-eye coordination and beginning catching skills through fun toss-and-catch games that teach tracking, ready hands, partner safety, and confidence in PE.

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Unit Plan 11 (Grade K PE): Underhand Toss

Kindergarten students build underhand tossing accuracy through fun target games that teach gentle force, safe throwing routines, and controlled aim with beanbags in PE.

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Unit Plan 10 (Grade K PE): Rolling Skills

Kindergarten students build rolling control through fun target games that teach safe hand position, low release, direction, and force while developing early object-control skills in PE.

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Unit Plan 9 (Grade K PE): Locomotor Games

Kindergarten students build locomotor confidence through playful movement games that reinforce walking, running, hopping, jumping, galloping, sliding, and joyful participation in PE.

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Unit Plan 8 (Grade K PE): Obstacle Course

Kindergarten students build movement sequencing and safe-space skills through a fun obstacle course with crawling, jumping, running, balancing, and stopping in order.

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Unit Plan 7 (Grade K PE): Run, Stop, Balance

Kindergarten students practice run-stop-balance movement sequences through Freeze Dance and playful PE games that build body control, listening, and confidence.

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Unit Plan 6 (Grade K PE): Pathways & Directions

Help Kindergarten students practice straight, zigzag, and curved pathways through fun PE road games that build movement control, direction awareness, and safe travel.