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Second graders study physical education and the benefits of exercise. In this health and fitness instructional activity, 2nd graders study words associated with physical fitness and health. Students research physical fitness activities and find a game they like. Students take turns teaching the games to each other.
Students identify the benefits of being physically active. They identify three ways that they can become more physically active. Students discuss the benefits of fitness. They discuss the ways students can increase their physical activity.
Students engaged in practice for a physical fitness exam. The practice is beneficial for overall student fitness. The instructor measures key factors of health that include height and weight.
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.
The relationship between food and physical activity is the focus of this health lesson. To investigate exercise and its benefits students use a dictionary to define terms such as calorie, energy, and exercise. Students watch the video "The Magic School Bus Plays Ball" and brainstorm ways to burn calories.
Learners study movement. In this physical education lesson, students explore heart rate as they collect data and create a heart rate graph. Learners also develop an exercise plan that works their hearts appropriately.
Investigate physical education and sports throughout the years. Third graders view primary source prints and photographs and analyze what they see. Then, they compare different types of physical education programs and sports. The final product is a bulletin board or poster display.
Fifth graders design an informative tri-fold fitness pamphlet for a fictitious fitness center that contains a persuasive paragraph encouraging fitness, that is attractive and has the five fitness components.
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.
Lesson 9 in this 10-lesson unit put together by Do Something, Inc. is about fitting fitness into daily activivty. First off though, the class needs to take a look at what kind, and how much, activity they do in a day, in a week, etc. Next, they analyze whether they are getting enough exercise, or whether they need to incoporate more physical activity into their daily or weekly time schedules. This is a good start, but the teacher should provide a bit more guidance in discussing how important it is to be physically fit.