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Personal Best Day

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Personal best days are a fantastic way to get young learners excited and motivated to improve their fitness levels. This template will allow your class members to track curl-ups, push-ups, and a 9-minute lap run for five separate testing...
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Dancing Levels in Space

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners practice mirroring human moves by performing a dance in class.  In this physical education lesson, students utilize different spaces around them to perform a dance expressing their full motion.  Learners cooperate in pairs or...
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X-Circuit Fitness

For Students 5th - 8th
Get the class fit and have them participate in x-circuit fitness with six stations. Groups move from station to station in the correct directional path in two minutes completing each desired activity. Choose activities that are...
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Lucky Rock and Roll Fitness

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students, while listening to upbeat music playing in the background, are introduced to six different exercises: push ups, curl ups, jumping jacks, squat thrusts, windmills, and leg lifts. They participate in a game called Fitness Gamble.
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Dance and Math

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine human body movements by measuring the choreography of a dance.  In this physical education instructional activity, 2nd graders participate in a creative dance which is based on specific movements of each limb,...
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Self and General Space in Dance

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore the different themes and strategies of dancing by performing in class.  In this physical education instructional activity, students practice moving specific joints and muscles as they train to perform a dance.  Students...
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President's Challenge: Matching

For Students 4th - 8th
A 5 question worksheet to match a physical fitness activity with its definition. This is not much use on it's own, but it could be used as an extension to another lesson.
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Wellness and the Benefits of Exercise

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss benefits of keeping physically fit, predict effects of exercise on their bodies, perform various exercises correctly, including push-up, curl-up, and jumping jack, discuss and follow safety practices while...
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High-Five Curl-Ups

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice curl-ups in cooperative groups.
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Winter Olympics Stations

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students experience various Winter Olympic sports in Physical Education class. For this Winter Olympics lesson, students participate in stations which represent the Olympic games. These representative stations include a biathlon, cross...
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Pin Grab

For Teachers K - 4th
Pin Grab is a basic tag game. Each player has a clothes pin attached to the back of their shirt. Other players try to grab them off. If a player has their pin grabbed off they must do a physical activity, such as jumping jacks to get...
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Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 9 - Conditioning for Water Skiing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
It takes muscle strength and muscle endurance to get up on a water ski or wake board, and to stay up. Lesson 9 out of this 22 lesson unit is about conditioning. A resource link at the bottom of the page allows you to view all the lesson...
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Giants, Wizards, Elves

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
This game is a combination of tag and the rock, paper, scissors game. Giants beat elves, elves beat wizards, and wizards beat giants. The set-up determines who becomes the taggers and who is trying to run back to safety.
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ACE: Aerobic Conditioning Exercises

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars participate in a variety of aerobic conditioning exercises in preparation for the President's Challenge Fitness Test. As a whole class they participate in a fast walk exercise, and rotate through different fitness...
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Circuit Training Surprise

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students move around the gym to music, and when the music stops, they sit on a balloon. Inside each balloon are directions for another physical activity students should do.
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Go for the Gold!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young athletes practice various locomotor movements. They use locomotor skills as directed by the teacher to move between "Olympic rings" (hula hoops). Students participate in a discussion about Olympic events prior to playing the game.
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Athletics Lesson 1

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice various distance and sprinting activities. In this physical education instructional activity, students complete a warm-up of stretching exercises and explore different ways of jumping. Students walk a trail briskly and...
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Fitness plan: number 3

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students monitor their fitness levels for six weeks of their P.E. course through the use of an Excel spreadsheet. They also research the obesity epidemic among youth in the U.S. today, presenting their findings to the class. This...
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Soccer - Lesson 11 - Mini-games

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Start putting all the skills learned so far in this soccer unit together. Play mini-games, which means, just two or three players on a team. This way the players can practice all their skills and not be standing around waiting for the...
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Haunted House Challenge Fitness Stations

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students rotate through ten physical fitness stations. They perform various stretching and strengthening activities for three minutes at a time.
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Fitness Speedway

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners participate in push-ups, crunches, jumping jacks, curls with dynabands, and different inverted balances.
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Scrambled Eggs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students spread out in their own personal space within a play area. They respond to different kinds of commands to play the game related to different ways of cooking eggs. This looks like lots of fun.
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Candyland Fitness

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore physical fitness by incorporating a class game into their sport activities. In this physical education instructional activity, students draw cards in a similar style to the game Candyland, except these cards instruct the...
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Who Wants To Be A Fitnessaire? Closer

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students enjoy a review game to measure their knowledge about physical activity and the various components of fitness.