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Fit For Life Presentations
Students use the internet to compare and contrast the diet, nutrition and fitness of a major language group and the United States. As a class, they are introduced to the vocabulary in the language related to health and fitness and share...
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The Presidential Physical Fitness Test
Students practice skills of physical fitness to prepare for The Presidential Physical Fitness Test. They practice daily using specific exercises like curl ups and the one mile run/walk. The lesson allows students to project a profile...
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Nutrition and Fitness
Sixth graders investigate the food guide pyramid. They conduct Internet research, and plan a three day nutritional menu appropriate for teenagers. Students include three meals per day and a snack for each day on their menu, and...
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What is Physical Activity?
Young scholars explore the functions of the heart and how it needs to work hard and rest. They play the "Wise Owl Says" game.
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How Do You Choose a Physical Activity?
Students analyze the fitness choices that they make and the benefits of a regular exercise program. They create a sample episode of an original fitness program.
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Fitness Bowling
Students bowl and their score of downed pins determines a specific exercise, i.e. a score of 5 might be to do 10 jumping jacks. They who roll a spare or a strike can decide the exercise for the group.
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Twelve Days of Christmas Dancercise
Students participate in a dance routine set to the song The Twelve Days of Christmas. They monitor their heart rate and learn a new song.
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Fitness Trail
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.
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Monitoring Energy Expenditure
Students use heart rate monitors and complete a swimming and running test. These tests allow students to obtain personal data, to manipulate the data through calculations of various parameters, and to graphically represent the data.
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Family Fitness
Students visit sites that contain information about a variety of health and fitness activities. They analyze the activities according to several criteria, and describe how their particular activity choices can contribute to a healthy...
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Aerobic Frisbee Golf
Students work cooperatively as a team and accurately throw a Frisbee. In addition, students explore fitness components and different systems of the human body.
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Interval Workout
High schoolers explore how interval training works by performing activities that involve alternating short bursts of high intensity with lower intensity activities.
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Fitness Four Square
Students play the common game of Four Square while incorporating fitness into the activity. They participate a variety of exercises that work on strength and flexibility.
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Fitness Obstacle Course
Students run through an obstacle course to practice jumping, vaulting, pull-ups, and other physical endeavors. The obstacles are set up in a gymnasium, and students rotate through each task.
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A Spin On Fitness
Students perform a variety of exercises pertaining to each component of fitness while working in a cooperative situation.
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Jingle Bells Streamer Routine
Students perform movements with streamers as part of a P.E. activity. They dance to the song Jingle Bells, following explicit directions. They practice a dance routine, and can create their own dance.
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Hockey Dribbling
Students practice their ability to dribble/control a ball/puck in hockey. They work to show they have mastered the skill, and work with a partner to identify their strenths/weaknesses.
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Four Corner Warm-Up
Pupils number themselves off and when the music starts #1 leads their favorite exercise 1NULL, then they lead their team into a lap around the gym. Once back to their respective cones #2 is the leader leading their favorite exercise and...
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Christmas Fitness Adventure
Students complete a fitness challenge over the holiday break. In this physical fitness lesson, students receive a worksheet to track their physical activity while they are away from school.
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Physical Education: Tag - You're Wet!
Students play a version of water tag under close adult supervision. In waist high water, several students are "it" and the remaining class members have to get to the other side of the pool without being tagged. The first student to...
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Fitness for Life
Young scholars discuss their favorite activities and determine which activities are suitable for older people. In groups, students research the benefits of aerobic exercises and the equipment needed. Young scholars share their...
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Hooper Dooper Tag
Students play a rendition of tag. They use hula hoops to freeze and unfreeze players on the field. Complete rules included in plan.
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10-20-30 Second Club
Young scholars participate in running exercises to accumulate points for their running team. They earn ten, twenty, or thirty points for improving their running time, then line up with their team to add up their team's total running...