Physical Activity Lesson Plans

Students perform at five fitness stations a day for a week. Each fitness station be based on a benefit of vigorous physical activity.

Students participate in an after school program that promotes decision making, cooperation, choosing healthy foods, recognizing and naming a variety of foods, state healthy benefits from eating healthy foods and involving oneself in physical activity. They encounter what it means to live a healthy lifestyle.

Third graders practice monitoring their vitals during physical activity. In this health science lesson plan, 3rd graders investigate their body's response to physical activity by monitoring their pulse and heart rate.

Students identify and discuss a variety of activities that are good for their hearts. They discuss different physical activities that are good cardiovascular activities, and in small groups cut out and paste on magazine activities of heart-healthy activities.

Learners create an exercise plan. In this healthy living lesson, students discuss calories and their role in maintaining physical activity and burning fat. Learners determine the amount of exercise they would need to do to burn the calories from their favorite snack and choose four exercises.

  Students make a poster explaining the healthy life style that they lead.  In this health lesson, students research physical activities and promote them to their peers to parallel their posters.   

Students investigate how smoking tobacco affects a person's everyday physical activity. They participate in a ten-minute step aerobic routine to get their heart rate up, check their heart rate and pulse, conduct the activity again but using straws to breathe through, and compare the results on a worksheet.

Fourth graders practice their math skills as they assess how physical activity helps to keep their hearts healthy. They study how thirty to sixty minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity each day can help to keep their hearts healthy. From this formula, new math problems are created for the students to figure out.

Students explore the challenges of the Lewis and Clark Expedition through a physical education simulation. In this cross-curriculum physical education lesson, students work in groups of three to log 8000 steps, stopping to participate in physical activities similar to the challenges Lewis and Clark may have faced.

Fourth graders bring in a playgound item, i.e.: ball, jump rope, skateboard and develop a physical activity to go with the item. They describe in writing how to do the activity. They set up their stations on a "Game Day" and lead their activities.