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Students design a roller coaster and demonstrate their knowledge of Potential and Kinetic Energy. They determine the average velocity a given marble travels on their roller coaster and apply their knowledge of various measurement systems by converting the average velocity from cm per second to miles per hour.
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- 9th - 12th Grade
Students create a History/Rule booklet on a Physical Education activity related to activities taught in Physical Education Class. They use keyboarding and word processing skills, conduct on-line research, and manipulate graphics to complete the project.
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- 6th - 8th Grade
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 of fitness and nutrition.
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- Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
Students explore the physics of pendulums using the swings in their schoolyard. They compare the difference in a pendulum's swing when using different sized weights. This is a fun way for students to use an everyday object to explore physics.
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- 6th - 12th Grade
Students research a country related to the Olympics. They participate in physical education activities included in the Presidential Physical Fitness Test.
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- 3rd - 6th Grade
Students use a decision-making model as they make simulated choices about their future education. In this decision-making lesson, students read a book about Michael Jordan and discuss choices he made. Then, students examine how their choices represent an investment in human capital. Groups build a tower with paper cups and are given physical handicaps based on investments in human capital through their higher education.
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- 6th - 8th Grade
Students complete a webquest. They practice the tools needed and the variety of information available on the Internet to enhance their physical education/ personal fitness classes in an internet lab/cooperative learning environment.
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- 1st - 2nd Grade
Students explore the food groups represented on the food pyramid. In this nutrition and physical education lesson, students participate in a game in which teams try to grab a play food object designated by the teacher and return it to its proper category on an enlarged food pyramid.
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- Kindergarten - 2nd Grade
Students demonstrate different motor activities to honor Dr. Seuss's birthday. In this literacy-based physical education lesson, students perform group activities such as tumbling, jumping rope, throwing frisbees, and hopping. Each learning station is based on a book by Dr. Seuss.
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- 9th - 12th Grade
Students investigate the primary causes for the increase in overweight youth snf discover its impact on the health care system. After watching segments from the Bill Moyers Now program, they develop campaigns to implement in school that combat obesity and promote physical activity.
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