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Curriculum Planning Strategies for K-5 PE

build Your Yearly plan in no time!

Join Mike Graham—elementary PE teacher, SHAPE America award winner, and founder of PE 4 Every Kid—for a practical walkthrough of how to map out your K-5 PE year, from a blank template to a finished curriculum map you can teach from day one.

Date

Wednesday, August 12

Time

3:00 PM EST / 12:00 PM PST

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Hosted by PLT4M Curriculum Team

What We'll Cover

Learn a repeatable process for planning your K-5 PE year—from a blank curriculum map to a finished unit of sequenced, skill-building lessons.

The Curriculum Map Template

Start with a blank slate: the simple template structure we'll use to organize your entire K-5 PE year on a single page.

Planning Around the Calendar

How to layer in school events, assemblies, holidays, and time off so your map reflects the real teaching days you actually have.

Sequencing Units for Skill Development

A framework for ordering units so skills build on each other logically across grade levels K through 5.

Filling In Your Unit Map

Move from high-level units to lesson-level detail—how to break a unit into purposeful, connected lessons that hit your goals.

A Real K-5 Map Example

See a finished K-5 curriculum map in action, including how the year unfolds from foundational movement in K to applied skills by 5th grade.

Takeaways & Next Steps

Key planning principles you can apply this week, plus how to get started mapping your own K-5 year right away.

Mike Graham, elementary PE teacher and PLT4M team member
Meet Your Presenter

Mike Graham

Elementary PE Teacher & PLT4M Team Member

Mike Graham, PE teacher, brings nearly three decades of experience to the PLT4M team as a passionate elementary physical educator. Since beginning his teaching career in 1996, Mike has dedicated himself to promoting meaningful and engaging PE experiences for young students.

Mike won "Elementary P.E. Teacher of the Year" honors from SHAPE America's Midwest District in 2021 and from his home state of Illinois through IAHPERD in 2019. Recognizing a need for quality K-5 PE curriculum, he founded PE 4 Every Kid in 2017, offering classroom-tested lesson plans and resources for elementary teachers. Now joining the PLT4M team, Mike brings his innovative elementary resources and expansive knowledge to pair with PLT4M's proven secondary curriculum and cutting-edge technology.

Elementary student jumping rope during fitness PE

A K-5 Plan That Holds Up All Year

A blank calendar fills up fast—assemblies, testing windows, holidays, and surprise time off can derail even the best-laid plans. PLT4M gives elementary teachers a proven framework for mapping the year, sequencing units, and turning a curriculum template into a plan you can actually teach from.

  • A ready-to-use K-5 curriculum map template
  • Unit sequencing built for K through 5 skill development
  • Lesson-level detail for every unit in your map

Plan a K-5 PE Year That Actually Works!

Join Mike Graham for this free session and walk away with a curriculum map template, a sequencing framework, and a clear process for filling in your units.