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Pbs Teachers: Design and Implement a Personal Fitness Plan
Exhibit a physically active lifestyle, and begin to participate in and establish lifetime health and fitness habits and goals. Establish, apply, implement, monitor and adjust personal fitness goals.
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Pbs Learning Media: Season Fitness Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students have fun in fitness as they follow along with their teacher to perform various exercises and stretches found in the different seasons. Doing activities like playing baseball and cross-country skiing, students...
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Pbs Learning Media: Fitness Bingo Lesson Plan
This lesson is similar to traditional bingo. Each student gets a fitness bingo card. Creating space between them and their peers, students will act out the exercise if they have it on their bingo card.
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Pbs Learning Media: Wheel of Fitness Lesson Plan
This lesson is very similar to the popular television show Wheel of Fortune. Students are chosen to spin the Wheel of Fitness and whatever they land on is the exercise they perform.
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Susan P. Byrnes Health Education Center, Inc.: Learntobe Healthy
Learn To Be Healthy offers student activities and lesson plans for all ages.
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Pbs Learning Media: Sports Fitness Lesson Plan
In this lesson plan, young scholars learn about fitness and sports! Students follow along with their teacher to perform exercises that can be found in all different sports.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Physical Education & Health
This resource provides a collection of physical education and health-based lesson plans organized by grade level.
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Pbs Learning Media: Survival Fitness Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students learn survival skills while getting in shape! Students follow along with their teacher as they act out the important survival skills they would need as if they were on a deserted island.
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Pbs Learning Media: Brain Break I See Sports Lesson Plan
In this brain break lesson, young scholars act out different movements, using their psychomotor skills, found in sports.
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Pbs Learning Media: Minute to Win It Lesson Plan
This lesson plan is based on the popular game show, Minute to Win It. Students work as a whole class to perform various exercises for one minute in order to gain points.
US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: Health and Nutrition Information for Educators
Find sets of lesson plans for children grades one through six about the healthy food choices. Includes posters, worksheets, and coloring pages.
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Pbs Learning Media: Animal Fitness Lesson Plan
In this lesson using commonly known animals such as a fox, dog and an inchworm, students enjoy learning about the movements of various animals. The teacher demonstrates how to move and be like that animal using various exercises and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Rock Paper Scissors Lesson Plan
This lesson plan puts a physical twist on the traditional game, rock, paper, scissors! Students get into pairs to play rock, paper, scissors. However, in this game the person who does not win the match is rewarded with exercise by doing...
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Pbs Learning Media: Twizzle Lesson Plan
Students must use their listening and exercise skills to win this game! Students listen for commands from their teacher such as jump, turn, freeze, go, and twizzle. As they hear them, they must perform them quickly and properly before...
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Pbs Learning Media
PBS's source for teachers, covering all subject areas. This is a site that has so much wonderful information as well as interactive activities that you are sure to find something that would be useful in your classroom.
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Nutrition.gov
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.
New York Times
New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Physical Fitness
An interactive and printable crossword puzzle developed by the New York Times Learning Network. The theme of this puzzle is Physical Fitness. Other links, including Just Move and Shape Up America, are also included.
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Pbs: Now With Bill Moyers: Motivating Youth to Get More Exercise
Determine the primary cause for the increase in overweight youth in the U.S., and examine associated health risks. Investigate media targeted to youth, strategize a plan to motivate teens to exercise more, then implement the plan.
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Pbs News Hour Extra for Students and Teachers
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer offers specialized news resources for students and teachers. Content includes background information for the top stories of the week, full multimedia packages (video, audio, graphics, and text) which explore...
Read Works
Read Works: A Fire Safety Checklist
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about planning ahead to prevent or escape a fire. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Primary Resources: Pe
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...
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Read Works: Stay Safe From Fire
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text giving tips from firefighters about how to stay safe from fire. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.