Let's Play Another Game: Kid-Inspired Activities for P.E.
Help me give my students an equipment pack to help them create kid-inspired games for P.E. class and help them stay active during P.E., recess, and after school.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Hicks's classroom raised $542
This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
As a P.E. teacher, I am fortunate to interact with all the elementary students that attend my school at least twice a week. They enjoy P.E. because in my class, we strive to get every student involved and try to make something great happen every day. My students accept challenges and always rise to the expectation that is set for them. This attitude is especially impressive when you consider that my students make up the most diverse group of people I have ever encountered.
I teach at a Title I School in Nevada in which a high percentage of my students come from bilingual homes and receive free lunch.
My students often face tough obstacles in their lives but arrive to school smiling and ready to learn. They love their teachers and they adore their principal. Our school truly is a community – a family. We each do our part, as students and teachers work side by side with one mission in mind: our students’ success. Each classroom in our school has their college graduation date written on the board. We help the students set their goals high and we strive to help them achieve those goals.
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My Project
Every year in our P.E. class, I spend the first few weeks of school challenging my students to create a game or activity that the entire class would enjoy. The rules to create a new game are simple; it must be a game that everyone can play, it must be safe, and it can only use equipment that we have at school. Some of my favorite class games came directly from this challenge including Mayhem: a dodgeball/tag game that includes 3 different player responsibilities and even uses bowling pins! Mayhem was invented after a 5th grader accepted my challenge to create a game for the class. Unfortunately, some of my students' best ideas have not come to fruition because our school does not have enough of the equipment they need for their kid-inspired and kid-created game.
This project will provide my students with 120 pieces of equipment that they can use to invent their game for the class and allow their kid-inspired ideas to soar.
This pack includes jump ropes, soccer balls, cones, basketballs and frisbees. This equipment will allow nearly 900 students to have equipment for play and tools for creative invention! My students will be thrilled to see all the new equipment not just because it gives them an extra ball to play with but because it gives them more opportunities to use their imagination in class. This project will serve my school for years to come.
More than a third of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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