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Marathon Trick or Treating

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Pupils use fitness skills to solve basic math problems.
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Fitness Lab

For Teachers K - 5th
Students complete several physical fitness stations. Students identify which activities increased their heart rates from a resting level. Stations include jumping jacks, sit-ups, running in place, stretching, and body fat measurements.
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The Twelve Days of Fitness

For Teachers K - 5th
Students can practice this activity as a warm-up during the month of December. It's a great way to teach students about different types of exercises and how they relate to the different components of fitness.
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Nutrition and Fitness

For Teachers K - 7th
Students explore nutrients found in foods. In this health lesson, students discuss the importance of a healthy diet and exercise. Students track the number of calories burned during various forms of exercise.
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Get a Move On!

For Teachers 1st - 6th
May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Get moving with lesson and activity ideas to encourage and motivate students today!
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Underhand Toss

For Teachers K - 2nd
A great instructional activity to teach the fundamentals of the underhand toss. Begin with some warm-ups, review how to do the underhand roll, and then teach the new skill of the underhand toss. The teaching activity is scaffolded and...
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How Can You Stay Fit?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify ways that cardiovascular fitness is achieved and maintained. In this cardiovascular health lesson, students discuss what aerobic exercise is and list various activities which address cardiovascular fitness. Students run...
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Walking on Sunshine Fitness Dance

For Teachers K - 3rd
Knee bends, jumping jacks, arm stretches, arm circles, and just jumping around are some of the moves used in this dance workout. Get those youngsters up and moving to the beat of "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves. It's all...
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Nutrition and Physical Education Activities in the Classroom

For Teachers K - 6th
You can promote health and wellness using nutrition activities and lessons. With physical education activities and suggestions about snack times, you can help impvove the habits of the youngsters under your charge. 
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Fitness for Life

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students discuss their favorite activities and determine which activities are suitable for older people. In groups, students research the benefits of aerobic exercises and the equipment needed. Students share their information with the...
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Fitness Santa

For Teachers K - 5th
Students draw Santa involved in activities that they think would keep him fit as an assessment activity.
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Take a Hike!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners explore the benefits of staying active by going on a hike.  In this physical education activity, students discuss the concept of a hike, where a good place to hike is and what types of foods are necessary to stay nourished....
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Local Heroes

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Students discover the importance of physical fitness. In this personal health lesson, students learn messages and receive demonstrations about good physical fitness practices, health messages, and safety tips.
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Easter Egg Hunt

For Teachers K - 5th
Students increase cardiovascular endurance and develop the components of health related fitness.
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Advice, Encouragement, Discouragement

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars create a fitness schedule for a famous person.  In this advice, encourage, discourage lesson, students ask questions to determine the best fitness schedule for a person.  Young scholars relate this activity...
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Scooterville

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars practice safe driving on a scooter, following the "rules of the road", to develop fitness.
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Card Suit Aerobics

For Teachers 1st
First graders perform a variety of locomotor skills to enhance aerobic fitness and explain different movements that can be used to keep fit and active.
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Math Circuit

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students develop fitness levels and reinforce specific sports skills while integrating basic math.
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Frog Olympics

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the attributes of amphibians. In this physical frog biology lesson, students discover facts about the muscles of frogs and then play 2 games that require them to move like frogs.
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Summer Activities: Our Amazing Bodies

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use the body as a sensory laboratory to explore their five senses, heartbeat, bones, and even size. In this early childhood science lesson, students build science and critical thinking skills as they take part in up to 6...
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Sportsmanship: Grades K-2

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover how to play sports fairly by role playing sports scenarios in class.  In this sportsmanship lesson plan, students participate in a charades activity in which they act out a random event while the class decides if...
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Sports and Fitness Festival

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore new sports and activities which lead them to a healthy lifestyle.
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Walking & Running

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Here's a fun collection of activities for helping youngsters develop body awareness, walking and running skills, spatial awareness, fine motor skills, and adaptive physical education skills such as following directions.
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Jumping

For Teachers 1st
First graders perform a series of fitness activities.  In this jumping instructional activity, 1st graders go to six stations and complete a jumping activity at each. Students become aware of various jumping techniques.

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