PE Warm-Up Wheel
The same warm-up every lesson gets boring fast, and bored students warm up half-heartedly. This wheel holds 24 exercises that need no equipment, from high knees, side shuffles and skipping to bear crawls, inchworms and frog jumps. Spin three or four at the start of PE and run each for thirty seconds, or put the wheel on the hall screen and let a different student spin each round. It works on a phone in the playground too. Remove anything that doesn't suit your space or your students, and add the drills and stretches your sport needs.
How to use it
- The wheel is ready with 24 entries. Press Spin, click the wheel or press Space, and the result appears in the middle.
- Open Edit entries to change the list for your class, or press Use my class instead to spin your students' names.
- Press Present (or F) to show just the wheel on the board. Turn on Take winners off the wheel in Settings if you don't want repeats.
Ways to use it in class
- Four-spin warm-up: spin four exercises and do each for 30 seconds with 10 seconds' rest between.
- Student coach: the spinner demonstrates the exercise first, then leads the class through it.
- Cool-down version: edit the entries to slow stretches and spin one for the end of the lesson.
More ready-made wheels
Questions teachers ask
Can I change what's on the wheel?
Yes. Open Edit entries to add, remove or reword anything, one entry per line. Your changes last until you leave the page, and Restore brings back the original list.
Can I spin my students' names instead?
Yes. Press Use my class instead to swap the entries for your saved class, with absent students left off. Press the back button in the same place to return to this wheel's entries.
Is every entry equally likely?
Yes. The result is chosen with your browser's cryptographic random number generator before the wheel moves, and every slice has the same chance. Turn on Take winners off the wheel in Settings to avoid repeats.
Will ads show on my projector?
No. Press Present (or F) and the screen shows only the wheel and the Spin button, in large type for the back of the room.