PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fitness Tips for Grown Ups
Learn ways to stay active with your children, in this guide from Arthur: "Arthur Weighs In."
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fitness Tips for Kids
Help children learn easy ways to stay physically fit, in this guide from Arthur.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Jamaica: Human Body: Healthy and Hygienic Habits During the Day
Surf the waves with Courtney. Find out how to stay fit and healthy, just like her.
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Fitness Four Square
At this website, learn about a game that combines four square and other aerobic exercises. Includes ideas for assessing students' participation in the activity as well as adapting the activity for students with physical disabilities.
New York Times
New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Physical Fitness
An interactive and printable crossword puzzle developed by the New York Times Learning Network. The theme of this puzzle is Physical Fitness. Other links, including Just Move and Shape Up America, are also included.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Exercise
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gets the students up and moving as well as thinking about the importance of exercise and the impact it has on the human body.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Minute to Win It Lesson Plan
This instructional activity is based on the popular game show, Minute to Win It. Learners work as a whole class to perform various exercises for one minute in order to gain points.
Public Health Agency of Canada
Public Health Agency of Canada: Family Guide to Physical Activity for Youth (10 14 Years of Age)
The Public Healthy Agency of Canada provides parents, caregivers and guardians of youth ages ten through fourteen with a resource guide to help them instill the importance of being active, having fun and how this will lead to health...
Other
California Obesity Prevention Initiative: Do More, Watch Less [Pdf]
Here is a complete program to help children understand how much time they spend in front of the television or computer screen, what effects that can have, and how to find activities that will help them get moving instead of watching.Find...
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
Young scholars 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. Young scholars...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Rio De Janeiro Carnival Parade: Balanced Diet and Regular Exercise
Gabriel is a samba dancer in Rio de Janeiro. Learn about the healthy lifestyle habits he follows to stay fit.
Read Works
Read Works: The Body Shop
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the types of foods needed to fuel the body for sports and exercise. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Gardellini: Sports Medicine
Are you interested in Sports Medicine? The Sports Medicine site offers information on careers in this field, college programs, events, fitness/excercise, health/wellness, sports injury, and professional associations.
PE Central
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.
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.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Healthy Weight
Whether studying health or physical education, this site explains the importance of lifestyle when trying to lose weight and get in shape.
PE Central
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...
PE Central
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 young scholars 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...
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Getting Healthy: Physical Activity: Get Moving!
Learn about the health benefits of exercise. Content includes helpful tips on how to incorporate activity into your daily life and a link to the association's guidelines for improving heart health through fitness.
Other
Recreation & Health for Children
Japanese content. The site aims to promote physical fitness for children and provides news items and information on fitness tests, how to exercise, where you to play sports, and how to promote an active and healthy lifestyle. You can...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Is Lactic Acid a Four Letter Word?
This essay by exercise physiologist Patti Finke and fitness consultant Warren Finke describes the process by which our bodies transform food energy into energy that our cells can use.
Read Works
Read Works: Slim Gym
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how to exercise without a gym or equipment. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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