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Interdisciplinary Unit On Wellness
Students create a portfolio throughout their middle school years on wellness. Students explore their awareness of the connections between health, physical education, and family and consumer sciences with particular emphasis on the areas...
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Benefits of Cycling
Fourth graders discuss cycling and create a list of good effects from cycling. In this cycling lesson, 4th graders design a leaflet or poster to encourage cycling. Students debate the benefits of cycling.
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Building Blocks for a Healthy Body
Students watch a video and discuss the benefits of regular exercise. They use books, Internet sites and interviews with health professionals to develop a list of activities to develop physical fitness.
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Aboriginal Physical Education
Students engage in p.e. activities that have roots in native Indian, Metis, and Inuit cultures. They practice the skill involved and listen to the significance behind the skill. They read relevant books and define new terminology.
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Kids Health: Female Athlete Triad
The female athlete triad is composed of three disorders that all stem from a woman's obsession with how she looks. Conditions in this triad result in weakness and damage to one's body. This condition is outlined in a detailed manner in...
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Kids Health: About Kids Health
This page for the huge KidsHealth site gives you a jumping-off point and an overview of the site's content, purpose, and usage. With sections for parents, kids, and teens, KidsHealth has been online since 1995 and today it is accessed...
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Hhs: Physical Activity Fundamental to Preventing Disease
Here, read statistics from the US Department of Health and Human Services concerning exercise and its key role in preventing chronic illness and premature death. Use these findings from medical studies in which diseases were studied in...