What is the relationship among the heart, circulation, and exercise? Your class members will explore first-hand how different physical exercises affect an individual's heart rate. They will begin by learning how to measure their own...

Students explore how intensity of activity increase heart rate. They are first instructed to check their pulse rate while lying down for approximately 2 minutes in a restful position. They record their heart rate on a worksheet provided...

Students improve fitness, calculating target heart rates, and prepare for the mile run physical fitness test.

Students take their own pulse before and after exercise as they explore how the heart works. They research various ways that heart disease is treated and suggest specific treatment methods for their own imaginary patients.

Students practice raising their heart rates through exercise.  For this physical education lesson, students discover the key to a healthy body is a healthy heart that must be exercised often.  Students perform a sing along and...

Students discuss ways to keep healthy, and examine factors that influence health, including media. They then participate in mock public meeting on genetically modified foods in order to explore importance of governmental decisions in...

Students investigate the effect good sleep and rest has on the human body.  In this health lesson, students discover the different stages of sleep and discuss ways they can ease their own tension through exercise or meditation....

Young scholars explore the functions of the heart and how it needs to work hard and rest. They play the "Wise Owl Says" game.

Explore some of the causes and preventions of heart disease. Young learners play a game of tag in which the taggers role play as risk factors for heart disease. Players who are tagged call out "heart alert" and are saved when someone...

Second graders discuss and understand relationship between physical activity and healthy heart, describe long-term effects of daily physical activity on heart, and set personal goals for daily participation in physical activities that...

Students play a game to improve non-verbal communication skills. They each place a playing card on their forehead without looking at the suit then they must form groups of the same suit without speaking. They reflect on the process and...

Students rotate through various physical activities checking their carotid pulse after each. This activity will give knowledge to students about health behaviors and understanding the exercise aspect of growth and development.

Students elevate their heart rate and work together in groups.

Students act as medical researchers and investigate the development of artificial heart, heart assist devices and other advancements in cardiology. They report their findings, both orally and visually, to their 'colleagues' at a conference.

Students control a ball while dribbling with hands and feet through obstacles. This is a heart healthy activity that accompanies the completion of several tasks as they reach their assigned station.

Students discuss peer pressure pertaining to healthy eating decisions.  In this personal health instructional activity, students identify reasons why they make poor eating decisions and how to ignore food temptations.  Students...

Head to the treeline and beyond to examine how this feature of the landscape affects weather and climate, which gives scientists clues about its health. Class members' observations of photographs provide the data...

Young scholars increase cardiovascular fitness and muscular strength. "UNO" cards are used. Each card is matched up with an exercise.

Tenth graders propose strategies for enhancing and maintaining emotional health and well-being encourage respect for others.

Seventh graders assume the role of stockholders in a fictitious biotech company. After investigating the cloning of pets, the effects of cloning on the health and well being of the cloned animal, and the ethical issues involved, groups...

Students apply and generalize data, and prepare and present an oral presentation with a visual aid.

Students explore the shape of things as they bend, twist, and turn. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop social, creative-thinking, and language skills and spatial awareness as they use their bodies to create geometric...

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.

Students participate in an imaginary scenarios that involves different ways to confront and talk about issues surrounding death. Students will write a letter expressing their emotions to a pet or person who has died.