The online assessment demonstrates knowledge of exercise and fitness. The questions evaluate students on designing a personal fitness program.

Determine the primary cause for the increase in overweight youth in the U.S., and examine associated health risks. Investigate media targeted to youth, strategize a plan to motivate teens to exercise more, then implement the plan.

Find out how you can take part in the President's Challenge to increase your physical activity and earn awards.

This lesson uses the popular card game, UNO. Students form small groups, and then take turns picking up cards and performing a specific exercise. Each card color has a designated exercise associated with it and the number on the card...

In this lesson, students learn about fitness and sports! Students follow along with their teacher to perform exercises that can be found in all different sports.

In this lesson, students use their science knowledge and apply it using physical activity! Learning about the stages of matter, solid, liquid and gas, students perform an exercise for each as the teacher calls out an object such as soup...

With this lesson, students get a brain and body workout! Students work in pairs as the teacher calls out physical tasks such as high fives and tunnel tens. As the teacher is calling out these partner exercises, students must listen...

In this lesson, students follow along as their teacher walks them through a variety of exercises and stretches targeting the whole body.

Read the die to find out what exercise to do and how many repetitions are needed, keep a running tally of rolls to see who gets the highest score.

In this lesson using commonly known animals such as a fox, dog and an inchworm, students enjoy learning about the movements of various animals. The teacher demonstrates how to move and be like that animal using various exercises and...

In this instructional activity, surrounding a theme children love, their birthdays, young scholars will exercise, move and stretch in way you might while celebrating a birthday.

Students have fun in fitness as they follow along with their teacher to perform various exercises and stretches found in the different seasons. Doing activities like playing baseball and cross-country skiing, students learn about the...

Exhibit a physically active lifestyle, and begin to participate in and establish lifetime health and fitness habits and goals. Establish, apply, implement, monitor and adjust personal fitness goals.

Information about kids and exercise. Includes an age-appropriate guide to the type and the amount of daily exercise children should be getting.

WebMD provides a page on exercise. Content discussed includes the benefits of exercise, what type of exercise is best to do, the difference between aerobic and anaerobic exercise, and some examples of easy-to-do exercises.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Regular physical exercise is important in preventing lifestyle diseases such as cardiovascular disease, some types of cancer, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. Regular...

See how exercise affects human health.

Information about kids and exercise. Includes an age-appropriate guide to the type and the amount of daily exercise children should be getting.

Everything you could ever need to know about aerobic fitness. Modules include aerobic fitness information, why aerobic fitness is important, absolute and relative Vo2 max, methods for measuring aerobic fitness, fitness norms in the...

Put together your own, personalized fitness calendar. Think about a fitness plan, set fitness goals, track your own progress, and work on varying your fitness routine. After planning a week of activity, print out your calendar and keep...

This 4-page article provides tips for exercising and doing physical activities in a variety of situations. Learn how to exercise and have fun in different types of weather and read about ways to participate in physical activities in...

Perfect for teachers of physical education or simply those who have a hankering to test out their strength, these fitness tests have been created to assess your cardiovascular endurance. Tests include a step-by-step procedure, the...

In this lesson, students unite science and physical activity to learn about the water cycle!

Article reports on a new fitness activity known as "crunning." Includes video.