Young scholars explore how to use field guides to identify wildlife.  In this nature lesson students construct their own plant field guide. 

Learners complete movements and discuss how fitness is beneficial to their health. For this fitness lesson plan, students also discuss being safe while moving and take a quiz.

A guide for competitive swimmers to take a look at how stroke length contributes to swimming efficiency. There is a PowerPoint and several websites for the swimmers to visit to gather information. They then keep track of their swimming...

Should school and professional teams test athletes for sickle cell trait? Will it protect them by providing knowledge or lead to discrimination by not allowing them to participate in sports? After learning about this genetic disorder,...

Students read a story called Athletes Need to Make the Grade to Play and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. In this current events college athletes and academics lesson plan, student respond to literature by...

Students practice stopping and guiding a ball with a hockey stick, as an introduction to floor hockey.

In this boy scout merit badge:  cycling learning exercise, 8th graders research the topic with the websites listed, answer 9 detailed questions about first aid, bike maintenance, safety, traffic laws, then perform a road test and 4...

This personal fitness workbook provides all of the steps that scouts must complete to earn their merit badge. It requires a physical and dental exam, documentation of current health issues, understanding of behaviors detrimental to...

This Boy Scouts of America workbook provides 11 pages of short answer questions about whitewater safety, safety equipment, and boating rules. It includes questions about potential injuries and their treatment.

This merit badge workbook for swimming provides a checklist of achievements necessary to secure this Boy Scout badge. It includes 10 potential health concerns related to swimming and asks about their prevention and treatment. This is a...

Young scholars discover how to play sports fairly by role playing sports scenarios in class.  In this sportsmanship lesson, students participate in a charades activity in which they act out a random event while the class decides if...

Students complete activities regarding good sportsmanship. For this sportsmanship lesson, students discuss winning, losing, and cheating. They participate in Sportsmanship scenarios and discuss what they would do in each situation. 

In this wilderness survival skills worksheet, students complete eleven short answer questions based on wilderness survival skills they have learned.

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.

Seventh graders explore nutrition and the effect it has by participating in class discussions.  For this diet and exercise lesson, 7th graders analyze print advertisements and discuss how unrealistic their expectations are and how...

In this boy scout merit badge: archery worksheet, 8th graders research the topic using websites listed, then answer 5 detailed questions about safety, commands, local laws, equipment, scoring in archery, then select an option and perform...

In this boy scout merit badge:  motorboating worksheet, 8th graders research the topic with the websites listed, answer 6 detailed questions about safety, first aid, types of motors, maintenance, laws, and equipment, then...

In this Sports Boy Scout merit badge worksheet, students complete 7 pages of short answer questions. They answer questions about the prevention of sports related illnesses and injuries. They diagram and describe the rules and etiquette...

In this boy scout merit badge:  skating learning exercise, 8th graders research the topic using the websites listed, then answer 5 detailed questions about safety, first aid, rules, equipment, then choose either ice, roller or...

In this boy scout merit badge:  horsemanship worksheet, 8th graders research the topic using the websites listed, answer 11 detailed questions about safety, anatomy, breeds, saddles, diseases, care and feeding of horses, then...

In this boy scout merit badge:  golf worksheet, 8th graders research the rules, history, first aid, terminology, benefits, and careers of golf using the website listed, then answer 8 detailed questions as part of earning a merit badge.

In this boy scout merit badge:  fly fishing worksheet, 8th graders research the topic using the websites listed, answer 10 detailed questions about first aid, safety, equipment, types of flies, fish habits, local laws &...

Students explore physical education by participating in a class game. For this bean bag toss lesson, students utilize masking tape to create targets which they launch bean bags into from far away. Students collaborate in groups to...

Students view a video about the values that are represented by sports teams. They write a paper about the connection between sports and social values. They share their responses with the class.