Game categories

FMS Games

Fundamental movement skills are the building blocks of physical activity: the ways we travel, control objects, and stay balanced. They are usually grouped into locomotor skills, object control skills, and stability skills.
Example skills
Running, Jumping, Throwing, Catching, Kicking, Balancing
Key concepts and tactics
  • Locomotor skills, or how we travel from place to place
  • Object control skills, or how we send, receive, and carry objects
  • Stability skills, or how we balance, twist, and land
  • Cues that make a skill teachable and observable
  • Varied practice, so a skill transfers beyond the drill it was learned in
Chasing & Fleeing
Cooperation
FMS
Health & Fitness
Invasion
Net & Wall
Striking & Fielding
Target
FMS

Frogs & Fish

In Frogs & Fish, students attempt to cross a dangerous river to collect flies on the riverbank. Can they make it back safely to their burrow without getting caught by a fish?

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FMS

Musical Hoops

Musical Hoops is a fun game for physical education in which students get to explore a variety of fundamental movement skills. With balancing acts along the way, this game is guaranteed to bring out some giggles!

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FMS

On The Lines, Off The Lines

On The Lines, Off The Lines is a physical education game that emphasizes two key fundamental movement skills: sliding and leaping. Can your students navigate their way through the gym while staying on (or off) the lines?

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FMS

Rodeo Roundup

Rodeo Roundup is a physical education game designed to help students focus on an important fundamental movement skill: galloping. Wranglers and horses work together to help each other learn, improve, and have some fun!

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Overhead diagram of a gym set up as a ship, with the captain in the centre circle and the bow, stern, port and starboard marked on each side.
FMS

Ships Ahoy

Ships Ahoy is a fundamental movement skills game where the gym becomes a ship and the teacher becomes the captain. Students run, freeze, and crew up on command, getting dozens of reps at tuned-in listening without ever being told to sit still and listen.

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FMS

Snow Forts

Snow Forts is an exciting physical education game designed to help students develop a key fundamental movement skill: the overhand throw. Can your team protect your forts while you attempt to knock down your opponent's?

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FMS

Space Invaders

Space Invaders is a physical education game that is out of this world! The game was designed to help your students develop important fundamental movement skills, specifically overhand throwing.

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FMS

Touchdowns

In Touchdowns, pairs work together to try and score a maximum amount of points by collecting various objects from hula hoops that are scattered across the playing area. The catch? You have to catch!

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FMS

Treasure Grab

Treasure Grab is a physical education game designed to help students develop their fundamental movement skills. Dribbling with their feet, students work to be the team that gathers the most beanbags before the end of the round.

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