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Exercise Stations
Students participate in station activities in P.E. In this physical education lesson, students do station activities. Students start out with a warm up exercise then make their way to dance, bowling, scooters, jump rope, and target...
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Breaking News English: McDonalds
In this McDonalds worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and...
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Leaping!
Students properly leap and measure their distance. In this leaping lesson, students practice leaping for accuracy and proper form. Students estimate their leaps and measure with rulers. Students determine distance covered by the entire...
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Smart Snacking Ideas
Educate parents on obesity prevention using these discussion points, specifically geared toward families of preschoolers. You will need to add to this, as it is mostly an outline of topics and objectives. Concepts include healthy...
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Fast Fats: A Nutritional Analysis of America's Obsession with Fast Foods
How do you read a nutritional label? Help high schoolers practice reading nutritional labels on foods so they can calculate the calories in different types of foods. They will also examine the effects of fat on the body and the link to...
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When One Beat Is Better Than Two
Fourth graders create an individualized wellness plan that addresses these controllable health risk factors:obesity, high cholesterol level, high blood pressure and inactivity.
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Testing a New Drug 1
Students act as chief research scientists with the responsibility of testing a new drug. Students design a controlled experiment to test a hypothetical experimental drug. Students write a clear, concise, and detailed plan to present to a...
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Bucket Brigade
Students participate in a physical fitness activity about water. In this water conservation lesson, students discuss how to conserve water and the amount of water most people use in a day. To illustrate this amount students move 70...
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Gymnastics Lesson
Learners investigate the importance of having a healthy body by performing gymnastics. In this physical education instructional activity, students utilize their flexibility and body strength to perform intense physical gymnastic...
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HOME SWEET HOME
Students create and implement a schedule of activities designed to help their parents improve their physical conditions.
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Dribbling and Passing
Eighth graders study soccer. In this instructional activity on a sport, 8th graders practice dribbling and passing skills associated with soccer.
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Pyramids
Students make pyramids. In this sports and sciences instructional activity students work cooperatively with their group members to build human pyramids. The focus is on safety and working together regardless of personal differences.
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Effects of Drugs and Alcohol
Students examine how drugs and alcohol impair athletic performance They discuss the reduction in aerobic activity through drug use and discover what is most affected by abuse. In their journals they write about how maintaining...
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Ghostbusters
Students are giving one scooter to participate in the tag game. As a class, they create their own obstacle course in which they try to avoid the taggers in the haunted setting. To end the lesson, they discover why physical activity is...
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Exercise Is Cool Scavenger Hunt
In this exercise worksheet, students utilize the Internet to visit one specific website to answer five questions regarding the benefits of exercising.
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Team Handball
Learners play a team sport. For this handball lesson, students learn the strategies for goal keeping and shooting. Learners play practice games.
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Team Handball
Students learn to play a team sport. In this handball lesson, students review passing the ball and practice a crossing drill while defenders try to steal the ball. Students review what they have learned.
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Being an Active Family
Students brainstorm ideas that will help them to be more active. In this activity lesson students select an indoor activity they can do as a family and other ways they can get moving.
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Modified Orienteering
Learners participate in activities using compass settings. They find north and notate the bearings of objects that have been set up in the school yard. They find marks that both visible and hidden behind and under things like trees, and...
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Who Wants To Be A Fitnessaire? Closer
Students enjoy a review game to measure their knowledge about physical activity and the various components of fitness.
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Grocery Store Problem Solving
Fourth graders explore healthy eating habits by viewing instructional videos in class. In this food pyramid lesson, 4th graders identify the different classifications within the food pyramid and identify how they can improve overall...
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Listen Up!
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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Muscle Flexibility and Strength
Fourth graders listen to the definition of muscle strength and observe the teacher demonstrate how to do an abdominal crunch. They then do abdominal crunches for 20 seconds. They gather information about flexibility and strength and...
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"Know How" to Line Up
Students identify and define several movements physically acted out. They participate in a freeze activity in which they line up performing different movements. For example, they line up (1) if they are doing a strength exercise, (2)...