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Haunted House Challenge Fitness Stations

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students rotate through ten physical fitness stations. They perform various stretching and strengthening activities for three minutes at a time.
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Athletics Lesson 1

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice various distance and sprinting activities. In this physical education lesson, students complete a warm-up of stretching exercises and explore different ways of jumping. Students walk a trail briskly and then jog.
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Muscle Match!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students skip around the gym floor and try to match pictures of muscles and stretches. When they find a match they must run to the Muscle Mat and call out "Muscle Match!". The class then stops skipping and faces the Muscle Mat while the...
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Tubular, Dude! Exploring Blood Vessels

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the cardiovascular system. In this human body lesson, students observe blood flow and study cardiovascular diseases and how they affect the human body system.
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Sing Along with the Muscles Song

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students review the muscles of the body. They perform the functions of the muscles of the body to the tune of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer".
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Organ System Interactions

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders who have studied all of the organ systems now discover how they all are related and work together in the human body. They discuss a variety of situations in which more than one system plays a part. They identify the...
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Clerihew Dances III, 4 and 5

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders relate dance movements to chants. They tap out the rhythm of poetry on different body parts.
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Dancing Polygons and Non-Polygons with Patterns

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study movements. In this dance instructional activity, 2nd graders draw patterns selecting one to represent through movement with their body.
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Scarf Juggling

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in three different activities in a PE lesson. Students warm-up by dancing and following instructions in a song, stretch and work on flexibility by playing a game of Steal the Bacon and finish up with juggling.
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Dribblemania Fitness

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students demonstrate the skill of dribbling with stretching and cardio strengthening activities. In this dribbling lesson, the students use cones as boundaries to practice dribbling a basketball. During this lesson, a whistle is blown...
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Creative Body Movement

For Teachers All
At the end of this lesson plan, students will perform a brief dance movement and will demonstrate the use of the three postures correctly, safely, and creatively. Students observe group dances and are asked to recall interesting shapes...
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Body Math

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students solve simple math computations while practice their throwing skills. They explore how to subtract, add,divide,and multiply, while playing a fun fitness oriented game.
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Body Movement

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders interpret and transform drawn lines into locomotive movements. In this improvised movement lesson, 2nd graders draw a line on a piece of paper and use the elements of dance to interpret and transform their draw line into...
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Black Tiger Academy Martial Arts Fitness Unit – Lesson 3

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
“A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.” Black Tiger Academy’s martial arts activity three of 20 focuses on cardiovascular exercise and activities that get that heart pumping. There are quite a few activities...
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Be the Pizza

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders pretend to be pizza dough being made into a pizza pie. They listen to step by step instructions for the process of making the pizza and respond by moving their bodies as if they were the dough. Step by Step instructions...
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Elastic Band Exercise

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders build muscle strength by using elastic bands. In this elastic band exercise lesson, 7th graders do various stretches and movements using an elastic band. Students go to different stations to do different exercises....
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Kids Yoga Stories

Valentine's Day - LOVE

For Teachers K - 3rd
Open your heart with a refreshing yoga session designed for Valentine's Day. With visual cues of hearts and other festive decorations, participants begin a series of yoga poses designed to open their heart chakras and to reflect on...
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El Greco: Drawing Tall People

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Learners create a masterpiece. In this drawing lesson students use a magazine picture to make a very tall person. The learners cut the picture to stretch it out.
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Introduction to Correct Posture for Singing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers demonstrate correct body posture for proper singing technique, and accurately perform correct breathing technique in preparation for singing.
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"Shapes" Dance Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create dances by manipulating shapes with their bodies.
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Dancing to New Heights

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils identify proper body alignment through experiencing proper sitting, standing or prone positions. They identify and demonstrate different types of movements.
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A Cloe Reading of Shakespeare On Your Feet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students act outeach word in a Shakespearean speech.  In this reading technique activity, students learn passages from Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew reading using their bodies to act out each word.  Students...
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Can rice plants talk?

For Teachers 1st
First graders compare and contrast rice plants with people. In this rice plant lesson, 1st graders discuss what make rice plants similar to people such as their bodies and coverings. They also discuss how they are different in what they...
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Type To Learn: Lesson 2

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders demonstrate proper finger placement on the keyboard and beginning keyboard techniques (shift key for capitals and symbols, tab to indent, number/caps lock, identify home row keys, anchor fingers to home row, use two hands...