3-5 PE Lesson Ideas

Place 4 large buckets at each corner of the playing area. Put a label on each one titled plastic bags, plastic bottles, cardboard and one titled paper. Scatter cleaned plastic bottles, plastic bags, cardboard and paper all around the playing area.

All students are on the outside of the playing area to start. Each student is sitting on a scooter. Have them work in teams of 4-5 each. On the go signal they must put collect all the pieces of "trash" that are on the floor and they must put them in the correct container. After they have collected all the trash and put in the containers visit the containers and see if the students put the correct items of trash in the correct recycling container.