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How Does our Heart Rate Change?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students feel their pulse and describe it. They predict whether certain activities will increase or decrease their heart rates. Students use a heart rate sensor to determine resting heart rates and those after activity. In conclusion,...
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Poverty & Disease: What is the Link?

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students consider how to reduce poverty and fight disease around the world. In this interdisciplinary lesson, students participate in activities regarding global poverty, fighting disease, and connections between poverty and disease.
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Rainbow Milk

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students complete activities to learn about rainbows and the importance of dairy in their diet. In this sense and diet lesson, students discuss rainbow colors, the importance of sight, and the importance of dairy in a healthy diet....
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How Do Foods Help Our Bodies

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate the specific elements found in food that keep us healthy.  For this healthy eating lesson, students identify proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins as part of a healthy diet when consumed in moderation....
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Energy Balance

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore energy.  In this health and nutrition lesson, students brainstorm a list of healthy foods that provide energy, and identify physical activities that burn energy.  Students complete a good nutrition worksheet.
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Coordination and Flexibility

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice controlling their motion and reflexes by participating in different motor skill activities.  In this physical education lesson, students utilize bean bags and hula hoops to help create flexibility and coordination in...
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What's New in Contraception and Reproductive Health?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students observe life science by completing a class activity. In this sexual health instructional activity, students identify the newest contraceptive devices and discuss the improvements being made to STD and pregnancy prevention....
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First Aid Booklet

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Pupils engage in a hands-on activity to create their own first aid booklet. In small groups, students define the terms, using their own words, then use the dictionary to complete definitions for any remaining words.
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Pancake Express

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a variety of manipulative skills in cross-curricular activities (dramatic play, reading, problem solving) to improve creativity and health education.
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My Family and Me

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders observe and record the activities of the ant colony at various times of the day. They report on observations and discuss the role of cooperation and contributions to a family unit. They compare the social structure of ants.
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Family and Physical Education Nights

For Teachers K - 5th
Pupils, in grade levels, perform a program of events that they have participated in throughout the year. Each grade level has their own night and extra nights are arranged for family nights. They then are asked to teach their parents...
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Rock Write-In-Roll

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students participate in physical education and classroom activities with their parents and families. To engage parent's in their student's educational process, students and family members spend part of an evening roller skating and the...
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Rainbow milk

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
This activity explores the sense of sight, nutritional needs, and the importance of milk and dairy in our diet. Students discuss color mixing, surface tension and rainbow milk. Students actively mix three colors of food coloring with...
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My Pyramid Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the food pyramid and healthy eating. After discussing the five healthy food groups, students participate in activities to demonstrate the benefits of healthy food groups. They play games to discover the benefits of...
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Keeping Healthy Lesson Plan

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore how muscles work. In this health lesson, students identify how the blood supplies muscles with oxygen. Students participate in an online activity to reinforce the concepts.
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How Do You Rate?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders make a graph. In this pulse rate lesson, 5th graders estimate their pulse and record it. Students measure their pulse while at rest and after physical activity and record it. Students use the internet to graph their results...
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Pump It Up

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study the anatomy and functions of a heart. In this heart study instructional activity, students read a book about the heart and study a plaster heart model. Students take their own pulse in various stages of rest as well as...
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What You See Isn't Always What You Get!

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore AIDS. In this health lesson, students participate in 2 classroom activities that reinforce the concept that HIV infection is not apparent in physical appearance. Students discuss the activities and write about their...
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Lesson 1: Bacteria on the Run

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students discuss bacteria. In this bacteria instructional activity, students see how bacteria in foods can cause illness and how to keep yourself safe. This instructional activity contains five activities and pre and post tests. 
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Empathy

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners complete activities to develop empathy. In this empathy lesson, students complete discussion activities and all the related worksheets in order to build their understanding of the concepts to empathy. Learners identify a public...
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Developing Coordination Skills and Pencil Control Using Mouse Hockey

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore motor skills by participating in a drawing activity. In this hand coordination lesson, students utilize activity sheets in which they drag their pencil in a specific direction quickly and efficiently. Students utilize...
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Early Childhood Nutrition

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students complete activities that focus on food and nutrition. In this food lesson plan, students sort foods into healthy and not healthy, categorize them into ground and tree sorts, draw their favorite foods, make abc books of food, and...
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Bean Bag Challenge

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the human body by participating in a physical education activity. In this bean bag lesson, students identify the hand eye coordination skills necessary to throw and catch a bean bag with a partner. Students throw,...
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Jail House Rock

For Teachers K - 8th
Pupils with disabilities are provided with a dance experience. This could be done as an inclusion activity. They dance to Jail House Rock by Elvis Presley.

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