Curated OER
Add-on Line Dancing
Students practice sequencing and coordinating various movements to music.When they have chosen the music for the day, have them find a self space and clap and move to the beat in their space for the duration of the song.
Hartford Web Publishing
World History Archives: Uwa: Nationlist Movements and Labor in Southern Africa
An article on the relationship between labor and nationalist/liberation movements.
Cornell University
Cornell University: Art, Design, and Visual Thinking
Use the left-hand toolbar of this site to investigate an online textbook for the language of design. It provides visual examples and explanations of line, form, color, color psychology, texture, balance, proportion and many more...
University of Oxford (UK)
Oxford University Museum of Natural History: Seven Life Processes
Explore the seven life processes that describe whether an animal is alive or not. Each characteristic is defined with examples and pictures. Also included is a living animal quiz to test how much you have learned.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: The Swimming Secrets of Duck Feet
By comparing the feet of different water birds you can discover how they propel the birds through the water. This Science Buddies project show you how to modify swim fins to simulate ducks' feet, greebes' feet, and the feet of...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: The Brain: Pre Assessment
The brain has unique physical characteristics and it is specialized into many different areas, each with a different job. Brain functions and abilities develop over time. Assess student's knowledge of the structure of the brain by having...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Arm Model
In the following lesson students are required to construct a model arm and learn how muscles and bones work together to achieve efficient movement.
Other
Simple Science: Animals in Motion
The innovative resource explores the biomechanics of bipeds and quadrupeds. Learners study how animals and humans move by starting, slowing, and stopping animations. The activity has an interactive online version and a printable data sheet.
Other
California Obesity Prevention Initiative: Do More, Watch Less [Pdf]
Here is a complete program to help children understand how much time they spend in front of the television or computer screen, what effects that can have, and how to find activities that will help them get moving instead of watching.Find...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Functions of Human Life
The different organ systems each have different functions and therefore unique roles to perform in physiology. These many functions can be summarized in terms of a few that we might consider definitive of human life. Learn here about the...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Animals: Animals in Motion
Learn the words to describe how different animals move. The book includes audio narration in English, Turkish, and Spanish with text in English.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Hinges Are a Part of You
In this lesson, students will learn about the joints in their bodies. Pipe cleaners will be used to simulate how joints work.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Busy Bodies
Young scholars will engage in different activities to help them learn about physical skills. Students will play Busy Body Bingo, Movement Bingo, Silly Stretching, On the Move, Hullabaloo, Little Sliders, and Frog Pond. Young scholars...
Other
Uso Eficiente De Energia Electrica
Learn about the efficient use of electric energy in Spanish. See the products and services responsible for saving energy.
Other
Health Communities: Parkinson's Disease
This site discusses the mystery and complexity of Parkinson's Disease. It mentions the history of the disease, signs and symptoms and incidence.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Healthy Me: Moving at the Zoo
Look at the many different types of animal movement that you can see at the zoo. Book includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
Utah State Office of Education
Utah State Office of Education: Force, Energy, & Motion
A unit on energy, force, and motion presented with interactive and classroom activities. Students gain an understanding of weight, mass, potential and kinetic energy, sound, and heat with this engaging resource.
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: 3 Ps2 2: Predicting Future Motion
Examples of motion with a predictable pattern could include a child swinging in a swing, a ball rolling back and forth in a bowl, and two children on a see-saw.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Kinetic Energy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore the concept of energy as well as the idea of energy in motion, kinetic energy.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Hands on Is Minds On
As students put projects together, create crafts, or use familiar materials in new ways, they're constructing meaning. Students love to touch and manipulate materials and this can activate kids' brains. This article gives tips for...
Other
Active for Life: Jumping, Hopping & Skipping
A series of activities to practice motor skills using jump ropes, cones, and hula hoops.
PE Central
Pe Central: Dancing on Different Levels
Used in the preschool or lower elementary grades, this dance can reinforce the concepts of moving in a low, medium and high level as well as practicing movements to the right and left.
PE Central
Pe Central: Be the Pizza
The students are going to pretend to be pizza dough being made into a pizza pie. The teacher will give the following step by step instructions for the process of making the pizza. Children respond by moving their bodies as if they were...
PE Central
Pe Central: Alphabet Madness
This activity promotes movement through imagery inspired by words associated with each letter of the alphabet.