PE Games Database
Games designed for learning.
Every game in this collection was designed around a learning target, tested with real students, and written up so you can walk into the gym and run it tomorrow. No filler. No "just play it and see."
54
games
8
categories
43
with video demo
Every game
has clear learning targets
Browse by category
Start with the category, not the game.
Games that share skills, tactics, and playing structures belong together. Pick the category you are teaching and the games inside it will keep pulling on the same tactical thread.
Chasing & Fleeing
Tag! You're it! Chasing & Fleeing games are not only fun and quick to set up, they offer a great entry point to tactical thinking.
Invasion/Territorial
Invasion games challenge teams to move into their opponent’s territory to score. Players constantly switch between attacking and defending as possession changes.
FMS
Fundamental Movement Skill (FMS) games help students develop the building blocks of physical literacy through meaningful movement.
Net/Wall
Net/Wall games challenge players to send an object into space where their opponent cannot return it. Placement and positioning are used to attack and defend space.
Health & Fitness
Health & Fitness games help camouflage those fitness learnings so that your students can build up a sweat all while having a blast!
Striking/Fielding
In Striking/Fielding games, teams score runs while their opponents work to retrieve the ball. Teams alternate between striking on offence and fielding on defence.
Cooperation
Communication, teamwork, and giggles galore. Cooperation games put students in situations where success cannot be achieved alone.
Target
Target games challenge players to send an object as accurately as possible toward a target. Success comes from controlling direction, distance, and force.
Why game categories matter
By grouping games based on what they have in common (skills, tactics, playing area), we can take a thematic approach to teaching PE. Students get to work on the same tactical problem, like getting open in invasion games, across a whole set of different games.
That is what makes the learning transfer. A student who figures out how to create space in Speed Ball has something real to bring to Matball, and to basketball, and to whatever they end up playing at recess. That is the whole point.
ALL GAMES
The full collection.
Filter by category or search by name. Every card links to a full write-up with a diagram, learning targets, game builds, safety notes, and an equipment list.
WHAT YOU GET
Every game page, same five things.
You should never have to guess how a game actually runs. Here is what is waiting for you on each one.
Game diagrams
Set-up you can copy at a glance, drawn to scale for a real gym.
Learning targets
Written in "I can", "I know", and "I understand" language for students.
Game builds
Ways to ramp the challenge up or down without stopping the game.
Teacher notes
Notes from my own experience with teaching these games.
Equipment list
Exactly what to pull out of the equipment room before class.
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