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Bean Bag Challenges

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students enhance their knowledge of physical fitness skills as well as related terminology. They explore many challenges using beanbags. Locomotive skills as well as manipulatives and non-manipulatives are involved.
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Nutrition and Health

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the conditions faced while sailing on the ocean regarding health and physical fitness. They experience the importance of Vitamin C. Students analyze the cause of many diseases and sicknesses on the ships.
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Community Resource Banners

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students recognize that exercises in physical education class can be used in the community. They view t-shirts collected from youth activity/fitness/sport organizations that are sewn together as a banner to show physical activity in the...
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Musical Hoops

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use locomotor skills to move to a hoop, where they solve a math problem, and use a locomotor skill to return to the beginning spot.
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Listen Up!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students stand facing a partner (about 5 feet apart). When music is played the partners do a specified exercise. They listen to the music, and when the music stops, the students sit on the floor as quickly as possible. The first student...
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Sharks and Whales

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students will participate in a game to promote physical fitness. The outcome will be that learners will become more interested in fitness and remain engaged in the activity throughout its implementation.
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Be Healthy for School (Secondary)

For Students 8th - 9th
In this health worksheet, students learn the benefits of exercise and healthy eating. Students read the information on the page and answer 2 essay questions about healthy eating and exercise.
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Sportsfolio

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students research a fitness topic and use various technology tools effectively to produce a "folio" called "Sportsfolio." They collect information about a sport or activity.
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Active Living in the Community

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Take students through a fitness center led by someone who can go over the equipment, use of it, individualize it (small groups). They should be allowed time to find out where they are now and time to set realistic goals of what they'd...
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Round Dance

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders will participate in a dance activity for physical fitness. The learn a social dance that has an origin with the Canadian Aboriginal People. The use of tribal music will make the lesson more culturally relevant.
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Introduction to Yoga

For Teachers K - 12th
Students are introduced to yoga for fitness and relaxation. Over the course of the instructional activity, students practice various yoga poses and relaxation methods. They complete two minute yoga stations after all of the poses have...
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Grocery Store Problem Solving

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore healthy eating habits by viewing instructional videos in class. In this food pyramid instructional activity, 4th graders identify the different classifications within the food pyramid and identify how they can...
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Keep Your Brain in the Game: Grades 3-5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Boost physical activity as well as concept proficiency with brief bursts of movement. Before taking a test, scholars vote on five exercises to complete from a set of 8 cards. After two minutes, learners begin their work with heightened...
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Discovery Pacing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students run a lap as fast as they can. They discuss the problems of running that fast for longer distances and strategize a plan to pace themselves. They work with timing, distance and observation to practice monitoring their pace.
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Spongebob Squarepants Tag

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars role-play Spongebob Squarepants characters while participating in a P.E. tag game.
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Willie Wonka Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students play "Willie Wonka" tag (a form of freeze tag). They are in two groups, runners and taggers. The runners' goal is to find a golden ticket under a gum drop (spot marker). Runners try to avoid being tagged with a licorice (foam...
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Body Composition Tag

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students are in two groups the "fat cells," are a group of 2 or 3 taggers, the rest of the class is lean body tissue. Students have two areas in the gym that are safe zones (nutrition and rest). Students who enter the nutrition zone have...
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Bean Bag Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers All
Pupils look for hidden bean bags on the playground. Once all bags are found, students may hide them from each other. Each student should have the opportunity to hide and find the bean bags. While pupils are hunting, the teacher should...
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Advanced Throw and Catch

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students practice their throwing and catching skills. They use scooters to practice improve their skills. Students practice rebounding the ball against the wall. They play dodgeball as a class.
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Snowshoe Tag Games

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars play a new version of tag on snowshoes. Students are able to discover advantages and disadvantages of wearing snowshoes based on their performance in the game of tag.
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Food Groups Tag Games

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students begin with a discussion on healthy eating and the four food groups as well as analyzing their typical lunch to see if it includes all food groups. Students then play a modified version of tag, yelling out a food from a specific...
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Television Watching Workout

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars exercise during a thirty minute television program. They break the 30 minutes into 5 parts (Program, Commercials, Program, Commercials, and Program). They exercise during the commercials, and rest during the program.
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Heart of a Runner Word Search Puzzle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this health worksheet, students look for the words that are related to the theme of the worksheet. They also work on the skills of spelling and word recognition.
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Sportsmanship: Grades 9-12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The increasing number of unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, red cards, and ejections from games points out the need for activities that help young people recognize behaviors that exemplify good sportsmanship. For homework, class members...

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