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Soccer - Lesson 15 - Practice Games
Here's lesson 15 of 20 in this soccer unit. This lesson has the players practice shooting on goal from different distances. The focus is on accuracy. After a bit of shooting practice, they gather with their team and play some practice...
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Soccer - Lesson 13 - Practice
Soccer practice. Practice some of the basic skills. Then play some small 4 vs. 4 games in preparation for the class World Cup tournament. Lesson 13 out of 20 in this soccer unit. There are links to the other lessons as well as to the...
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Tap Your Feet
Students listen to, analyze, and describe music. They experience performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
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Go Cough Up a Lung!
Third graders examine and identify the effects smoking has on the lungs. They view and discuss pictures of a smoker's lung and a healthy lung, and read and discuss an informational handout. Students then participate in an aerobic...
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Fitness & Math Challenge
Students learn math concepts while participating in various fitness tasks including pogo sticks, jumproping, pickleball, football throw. juggling, etc....
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Drugs Change the Way Neurons Communicate
Students examine that certain drugs interfere selectively with neurotransmission, and realize that the effect of a drug is dependent upon dosage and route of administration.
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Design and Implement a Personal Fitness Plan
Students reflect on their own personal fitness. They work together to develop fitness plans for each other. They implement and monitor their progress and evaluate their plan.
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This Is Your Brain on Pot
Students explore the causes and effects of marijuana addiction and research how THC affects different areas of the brain. They synthesize their knowledge by creating print advertisements that inform teenagers about the physiologic danger...
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Animals In Winter
Students read story Animals in Winter, and explore similarities and differences in how humans and other animals prepare for survival in winter. Students create class book that compares and illustrates different ways humans and animals...
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Brain Awareness Week Lessons
Students explore the human brain and nervous system. In this brain awareness lesson, students examine specific terms with regards to the human brain. Students discover the brain's structure and function and how it functions as the body's...
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What's Up, Doc?
Students explore cardiovascular fitness and create and follow a fitness program. They document the benefits of participating in a fitness program.
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Fitness Day
Young scholars develop skills and a comfort level in interpreting economic concepts through graphic analysis.
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Tactical Awareness in Modified Paddle Tennis
Students practice a modified version of paddle tennis. They set up the court and review the elements of the game. Students practice serving and returnig the ball. They practice keeping score.
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The Human Body: Focusing on Respiratory and Circulatory Systems
Students study the components and functions of the respiratory and circulatory systems. They take blood pressure using a stethoscope and investigate ways to maintain a healthy respiratory system.
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"UNO" Fitness
Students increase cardiovascular fitness and muscular strength. "UNO" cards are used. Each card is matched up with an exercise.
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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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Stress Hot Potato
Students listen to a brief description of stress including an emphasis given on distress and eustress as well as a description of the emotional and physiological understanding of stress. They then get into groups of 4 or 5 standing in a...
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Introduction to the Scientific Method
Students designs and conduct a scientific experiment that identifies the problem, distinguishes manipulated, responding and controlled variables, collects, analyzes and communicates data, and makes valid inferences and conclusions.
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Rhythm in Language - Feel the SWAMP BEAT!
Students explore the rhythm of words. In this reading skills lesson, students read Bedtime at the Swamp and use rhythm instruments to find the cadence in the words of the story. Students listen for rhythm in other written text as they...
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Fitness Trail
Students design a fitness trail which incorporates warm-up, aerobic, and cool-down phases. Each student develops their own plan and monitors their own progress through the use of an exercise log.
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Guess the Age
Students describe graphically, algebraically and verbally real-world phenomena as functions; identify the independent and the dependent variable. They translate among graphic, algebraic, and verbal representations of relations and graph...
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Drinkable Snow
Students explore snow. In this forms of water lesson plan, students read a story about snow, identify the types of snow found in Alaska, and learn Inuit words for snow. The lesson plan calls for an Intuit Elder to visit the classroom as...
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Guess the Age
Students explore functions using real world application. In this algebra lesson, students play a game as they apply concepts of function. They graph their findings and discuss it with the class.