A-maze™ Activity Folder

The A-maze™ revolutionary motion panels from Play & Park Structures offer a unique playground structure where children can use their imaginations, create and change the play environment every time they visit the playground. To further enhance the value of this unique playground product, the A-maze™ Activity Folder offers unique, standards-based, guided play activities that link play and learning to a variety of national standards across the curriculum. Children can participate in problem solving and physical play as they move the panels and create unique play spaces; then they can participate in customized activities such as obstacles courses, art activities, song games, organized games, and more. Another unique feature of the product and the program is the ability to incorporate loose parts like magnets and laces for a truly novel learning experience that promotes literacy, fine motor skills and cooperative play outdoors. 

To learn more, visit www.playandpark.com/play-programs/curriculum/a-maze-curriculum/

Climbing in the Classroom

Although rock climbing has gained tremendous popularity in the world of physical education, few resources are available to educators. Climbing the Walls™ is the most comprehensive set of educational climbing materials available today. This program, which provides everything necessary to develop a safer and educationally rewarding climbing wall program, includes 47 detailed lesson plans, safety information, and many other valuable resources. Our program templates not only help you assess students’ physical climbing skills, but also measure their social, emotional and cognitive aptitude.

To learn more, visit www.traversewall.com

FitKid

GameTime's FitKid™ Curriculum Based Fitness Program features an ergonomically designed fitness system that can be easily integrated into existing physical education programs. Intended for elementary, junior high and high school students the FitKid™ curriculum includes exercises with beginning, intermediate and advanced skill level options and step-by-step action photos. Many of the activities included in the program have been shown to help develop strength, concentration, spatial awareness, and coordination skills.

To learn more, visit www.gametime.com/resources/fitness-programs/fitkid/

 

GT Jams™

Bringing standards-based music and movement activities to your playground for a new kind of play. Children move and play on the playground to their own beat. Now they can move in new and creative ways as they explore music and movement outdoors with GameTime's exclusive GT Jams™ playground instruments and GT Jams Music & Movement Playbook. With GT Jams children can explore sound and move to the beat of musical instruments, adjusting their bodies and movements with changes in beat or contrasts such as slow and fast, light and heavy. Linked to national standards in physical education and music, this program provides fun activities for children to explore the creative arts while being physically active on the playground.

To learn more, visit www.gametime.com/resources/curriculum-programs/gt-jams/

Music Makers™ Activity Cards

Play & Park Structures’ Music Makers & Music Makers™ Activity Cards provide a rich musical environment in which children may experiment with music, exercise their imaginations, and strengthen their creative skills. Each Music Makers™ Activity Card has its own set of music standards and benchmarks, based on the latest research into best practices for performing, creating, listening, and responding to music. The cards are aligned with key national standards* in the content areas of music, physical education, and creative arts, and each activity card offers adaptations to ensure that children of all ability levels benefit from the outdoor games and activities. Each activity teaches children about a different aspect of music including tone, rhythm and much more. Physical activity is incorporated into each card with creative movement and dance.

To learn more, visit www.playandpark.com/play-programs/curriculum/music-makers/

Outdoor Creative Play and Learning System

The Outdoor Creative Play and Learning System is a unique, standards-based program for outdoor play developed by PlayCore and Robert-Leslie Publishing. The system is designed to help educators link learning activities to the outdoor play environment to increase physical activity, learning, and fun for children in preschool through fifth grade. The system includes a hundred activity cards designed to encourage creativity and imagination, along with links to national standards in language arts, science, mathematics, physical education and health, social studies, early childhood, and creative arts.

To learn more, visit www.playandpark.com/play-programs/curriculum/outdoor-creative-play-and-learning-system/

Play Trails Activity Guides

The Play Trail Activity Guides provide a variety of downloadable booklets full of interactive activities for children and families to explore before, during, or after trail experiences. Each booklet was created by environmental education experts at The Acorn Group to provide fun activities and discussion tips that will enrich children’s outdoor experiences, instill lifelong connections to the environment, and increase their engagement with the natural world. These free resources correspond with GameTime’s Play Trail product line and play pocket themes.

 To learn more, visit www.gametime.com/resources/curriculum-programs/playtrails-activity-guides/

Play On! Playground Learning Activities for Youth Fitness

Play On! Is a standards-based physical education program that promotes overall fitness, learning, and fun on the playground! Developed by the American Association for Physical Activity and Recreation (AAPAR) and authored by experts from Louisiana State University, Play On! focuses on overall physical fitness while imploring six essential elements of play. Play On! gets kids actively moving on the playground to help combat childhood obesity and encourage healthy lifestyles. Request More Info »

SNUG Play Inspirations

Snug Play Inspiration activity cards were created by educators through observations of children in Pre-K through 5th grade using Snug Play in a variety of settings. Whether in free-play, guided, or directed play, facilitators can offer simple prompts and use the cards as "springboards" to further inspire or extend children's learning through play. Play Inspiration cards come with each purchase of Snug Play and include activities surrounding themes such as Around the World, Cooperative Games, Team Building, Storytelling, Habitat Creations, Challenge Course, Math Concepts, Art, Design, and Innovation, Community, and Responsibility.

To learn more, visit http://www.snugplayusa.com/resources_userguides.aspx

TouchMath

Innovative Learning Concepts Inc., are the creators of TouchMath, an award-winning multisensory program that uses its signature TouchPoints to engage students of all abilities and learning styles in a variety of mathematical concepts,  to bring classroom learning. Our new TouchMath Activity Panel is an interactive outdoor play event that offers a fun way to increase child’s computational skills, provide healthy physical activity, and encourage positive social interaction. The hands-on panel, corresponding activity manual, and program training materials are the ideal way to integrate learning into the play experience outdoors while deepening understanding of critical math concepts. The manual offers dozens of counting, addition, subtraction, skip counting, and multiplication activities to implement outdoors with children PreK-5th grade.

To order or for more information, please visit TouchMath at www.touchmath.com/playcore 

2Play Together

Developed in partnership with the National Lekotek Center, 2PlayTogether offers a valuable resource striving to make a difference in inclusive playground play and creating communities that care through character education. This resource equips programmers with tips and activities that will promote play, understanding, and fun between children with and without disabilities. Request the program »