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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Fitness Race Track
In the gym, set up a "fitness race track" where students can both run and participate in a variety of exercises like push-ups, crunches, and jump roping. A great warm-up activity to precede a sport or physically-demanding lesson.
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Pe Central: Fitness Tests Cues: Sit Ups
Use these tips to help you do sit ups safely in gym class. Learn how to position your hands and how to work with a parter. Also, check out the link to animated demonstration. This information would best accompany an in-class...
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Pe Central: Fitness Tests Cues: Push Ups
At this website, find tips to help you properly do push ups as well as an animated demonstration. Learn how to position your feet, back, and arms and also learn how to do a "Modified," push up.
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Fitness/strength Conditioning
Introduce students to strength conditioning with a trip to the weight room. After studying the muscles and their functions, students are ready to start strengthening their own muscles with the use of gym equipment and to write about...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Workout Time!
Provide a fun way to stay healthy with these 30 second workouts from Arthur: "Arthur Weighs In."
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Brain Break I See Sports Lesson Plan
In this brain break lesson, learners act out different movements, using their psychomotor skills, found in sports.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Virtual Workshop: Food and Fitness Energy for Life
A slide presentation that gives students an appreciation for what happens when living organisms use food for energy. Actual hands-on yeast lab exercise is part of the presentation.
WebMD
Web Md: Fitness: Why Should I Exercise?
The long-term and short-term benefits of being fit are listed here. Also, in the "Topic Contents" bar to the right of the article, click on the three different types of fitness (flexibility, aerobic, and muscle-strengthening) for a chart...
Curated OER
Kids Health: I Don't Like Sports, So How Can I Stay Fit?
This online resource is for kids who aren't inclined to playing sports but who want to stay in good physical shape. Here, read about various fun activities, chores, and games that will help keep your muscles strong and your heart and...
Read Works
Read Works: Are You a Fit Kid?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the vitamins and minerals your body needs to stay healthy. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Sports Screeners
Examine how physical activity and sports are depicted in movies and on television. Hypothesize how images of physical activity and sports depictions in entertainment can influence young people's attitudes and behaviors.
Read Works
Read Works: Fit for Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses how to stay healthy and physically fit through diet and exercise. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading...
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Olympic Challenge
Students familiar with basketball, football, and hockey skills are ready to participate in a variety of "presidential physical fitness tests." These include the basketball shot, the football toss, the floor hockey shot, and more.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Twelve Days of Winter Break
At this website, find exercises for each of the "Twelve days of winter break." Stay fit during the holidays and work these simple exercises into your daily routine.
Other
Livestrong.com: Aerobic Fitness
A detailed description of how cardio and aerobic workouts can enhance a healthy livestyle. Brief sections concerning the history of aerobics, its function, benefits, types of workouts and other matters of consideration.
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Livestrong.com: Definition of Aerobic Fitness
A detailed definition of the word "aerobic" and how it can be applied to healthy living.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Physical Activity Introduction
Who needs physical activity? How can it help? Find out here with this introduction to physical activity from the CDC.
PE Central
Pe Central: Water Fitness
Find ideas for water fitness and aerobics at this website. While in a pool, you can use kickboards, water jugs, fins, and water resistant equipment as you participate in a variety of activities: a warm-up, stretches, cardiovascular...
US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: Health and Nutrition Information for Educators
Find sets of lesson plans for children grades one through six about the healthy food choices. Includes posters, worksheets, and coloring pages.
New York Times
New York Times: Health
[Free Registration/Login Required] The New York Times maintains daily coverage of the latest in health news, including children's health, fitness, the health care policy, and more.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Nutrition Introduction
The CDC offers a wealth of information regarding several specific topics that fall under nutrition including good health, exercise, diet and more.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Utah Act. 03: Just a Minute
Using the tradebook Just a Minute by Teddy Slater, 2nd graders will learn about what is needed for a healthy body. Students will draw and illustrate a book that will teach other about short activities that will support a healthy body.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Busy Bodies
Students will engage in different activities to help them learn about physical skills. Students will play Busy Body Bingo, Movement Bingo, Silly Stretching, On the Move, Hullabaloo, Little Sliders, and Frog Pond. Students will keep a...
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Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor Certificate
This site tells of a correspondence course that you can take to become certified. It also has information on career opportunities.
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