This lesson is a spin-off of the popular television show Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? Learners are chosen one by one to pick an exercise card that will also have a point value on it. Once a card is selected as a class, students...

This lesson is very similar to the popular television show Deal or No Deal. Learners are chosen one by one to pick an exercise card. Once a card is selected they decide if they want to take the deal by showing a thumbs-up or decline the...

In this lesson students connect exercise and literacy. The teacher reads a sentence aloud and students must identify the action verb that was read and then act it out accordingly.

This resource provides a collection of physical education and health-based lesson plans organized by grade level.

Students familiar with basketball, football, and hockey skills are ready to participate in a variety of "presidential physical fitness tests." These include the basketball shot, the football toss, the floor hockey shot, and more.

In the gym, set up a "fitness race track" where students can both run and participate in a variety of exercises like push-ups, crunches, and jump roping. A great warm-up activity to precede a sport or physically-demanding lesson.

A series of videos on toning and building muscle and the importance of exercise and a proper diet. Videos vary in length. Twenty-nine video lessons followed by a comments section.

Learn To Be Healthy offers student activities and lesson plans for all ages.

At this website, learn about a game that combines four square and other aerobic exercises. Includes ideas for assessing middle schoolers' participation in the activity as well as adapting the activity for students with physical...

Read the die to find out what exercise to do and how many repetitions are needed, keep a running tally of rolls to see who gets the highest score.

In this activity, language and movement unite. There are two teachers who will read a command, once in Mandarin and once in English. The students listen to both languages and then perform what the command is.

Following along with their teacher, students learn about the various upper body muscles we have such as the bicep and pectoral muscles and learn how to give them a good stretch and exercise.

This website is a great resource to discover new physical education activities to bring to the classroom. Activities are grade appropriate (although keep in mind this is a British site and curriculum standards may differ).

While working (and running) with a partner, a student works on "improving fitness, calculating target heart rates, and prepar[ing] for the mile run physical fitness test." This website includes a "Partner Recording Sheet" that will help...

Find sets of lesson plans for children grades one through six about the healthy food choices. Includes posters, worksheets, and coloring pages.

The physical activity described at this website combines cardiovascular fitness exercises (frisbee, push-ups, jumping jacks) and academic subjects math and science.

Primary Resources provide pdf and html documents for lessons that include: warm-up activities, dance & gymnastics, invasion games, striking & fielding games, net/wall games, fitness & athletics, outdoor & adventurous...

Examine how physical activity and sports are depicted in movies and on television. Hypothesize how images of physical activity and sports depictions in entertainment can influence young people's attitudes and behaviors.

This is a comprehensive resource for information pertaining to health, nutrition and well being. Explore this site to learn more about food safety, food facts, health management and more.

Students can play interactive games and learn nutrition facts.