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.

Young scientists explore some of the scientific equipment that is used by explorers during expeditions to the North or South Pole. Then, they have a relay race! All of the equipment is lined up at a spot 25 yards away from the lines. The...

Day 3 of the speedball unit covers the drop kick. Teach these youngsters the art of performing a drop kick with a soccer ball. Remember the ball needs to hit the ground and bounce to be a drop kick. If the ball doesn't hit the ground...

Speedball - Lesson 6 is about the assessment of skills learned by the class. They will be assessed on their performance of passing touchdowns, field goals, and drop kicks. Then the class will be divided into teams and demonstrate their...

Students share opinions about athlete endorsements. They write articles that provide an economic profile of an athlete for submission to their school newspaper.

Students read the article "Disabled Skier Designs His Way to Be a Daredevil." They discuss using the questions on the lesson plan. Students create large sized baseball cards featuring competitive, disabled athletes.

In this fitness instructional activity, students explain why it is important to be healthy, clean, and fit. In addition, they keep a record of their daily meals and snacks for a week and describe what meals are best for them and why....

Young scholars make healthy choices. In this healthy living mini-unit, students make healthy lifestyle choices through hands-on activities, songs and movement. This mini-unit includes lessons on the food pyramid, fruits, vegetable, and...

Students take part in a project consisting of physical activities that uplift class spirit and encourage students to take a more active role as spirit masters. In this class competition lesson plan, students think of 6 games that...

Learners develop an awareness of the effect of pandemics and acquire knowledge to prevent a pandemic from spreading. In this pandemics lesson plan, students build research skills using a variety of sources. Learners investigate...

Students run lap around the field. They complete dynamic stretching: high knees, high knee kicks, forward lunges, 45 degree, side lunges, and high knee crossover. Students review the scoring and rules of the game speedball. They are...

Students participate in and practice dances in P.E. which are appropriate for their grade level. They invite parents, grandparents and sibilings to join a family dance participation night where all the participants dance simple, yet fun...

Students are shown proper stance, nocking, targeting, and release techniques of archery. They follow basic safety procedures involved in handling and using archery equipment. Students practice shooting aluminum or fiberglass shaft arrows.

Students learn the four concepts of flight; drag, lift, thrust, and weight. In this scientific inquiry activity, students participate in a flight activity where they jump as high as they can to stamp a large sheet of paper and measure...

Students work as a team in a game of Speedball. They are taught to value the benefits of physical activity as they investigate a new sport. Students successfully participate in a game of Speedball after participating in a drill that...

Download and read Baruch Blumberg's Nobel Lecture entitled "Australia antigen and the biology of hepatitis B." This lecture, originally given December 13, 1976, is available in PDF format.

At this site from the Nobel e-Museum you can download and read Gertrude B. Elion's Nobel Lecture, "The purine path to chemotherapy." This lecture, originally given by Elion on December 8, 1988, is available in pdf format.

This site provides you a timeline of the influenza epidemic from March 1918 to December 1918 with a description of what happened during these months.

At this site from the Nobel e-Museum you can download and read Paul Ehrlich' Nobel Lecture, "Partial cell functions," originally given December 11, 1908. The lecture is available in PDF format.

Foul weather, from ice, snow and below-freezing temperatures to downpours and excessive heat, has adversely affected NFL games since the dawn of the league more than 100 years ago. But no game in NFL history matches the weird weather at...

On December 18, 1932, with waist-deep snow and frigid weather plaguing Chicago, the Bears moved their NFL championship game against the Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans from Wrigley Field to the indoor arena of the city's NHL team. The...

This site is provided for by the University of Michigan. A task force convened following the death in December of wrestler Jeff Reese has made seven recommendations to promote wrestling safety.

This article, published by CNN (December 15, 1997), talks about a link that may have been discovered between the Epstein-Barr virus, which causes mononucleosis, and lupus.