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Dress Like A Frog

For Teachers K - 6th
Students recognize amphibian adaptations. In this amphibian instructional activity students explore amphibian adaptations that provide for successful living in their environments. A volunteer dresses up with all of the adaptations using...
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Key to Good Health: Exercise

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students calculate their heart rate before and after exercise. In this health lesson, students find their resting heart rate and then exercise for 5-10 minutes. Students take their heart rate afterwards and observe the differences.
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Hooper Dooper Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
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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Bean Bag Fitness Fun

For Teachers K - 5th
Students move a bean bag in a variety of activities aimed at increasing flexibility.
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Horton Hatches the Egg

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore space awareness and safe movement. In this movement/physical education lesson, students listen to the book Horton Hatches a Who. Students pretend to be Horton and rotate from hula hoop to hula hoop performing various...
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Continent Adventure

For Teachers K - 5th
Students review or learn information regarding the 7 continents on our planet. It is also a fun movement and fitness activity.
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PE Video Slide Show

For Teachers K - 6th
Students participate in various class activities and are captured on camera to show at various special times or events throughout the year. They choose a picture of a fitness testing for their first slide and add some music to it to...
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Fit Kid

For Teachers K - 6th
Students practice and perform the song "Fit Kid" while learning the basics of motion and music and dynamics in this elementary-level lesson plan for the General Music classroom. The lesson plan emphasizes proper exercise and diet for a...
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FUN-damental movement!

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students move within the gymnasium area while working on color/shape recognition, change of speed and directional movements, and cooperation/teamwork. In this FUN-damental movement lesson, students work in partners on a treasure chest...
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Being an Active Family

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Students brainstorm ideas that will help them to be more active.  In this activity instructional activity students select an indoor activity they can do as a family and other ways they can get moving. 
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Ghostbusters

For Teachers K - 4th
Students are giving one scooter to participate in the tag game. As a class, they create their own obstacle course in which they try to avoid the taggers in the haunted setting. To end the lesson, they discover why physical activity is...
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Skipping

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate skipping and sliding. In this movement lesson, students practice skipping and sliding while holding colored chalk marking the wall mixing the colors to make different colors.
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If You Give A Cat A Cupcake

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students participate in literacy based activities based on the book If You Give A Cat A Cupcake. In this literacy lesson plan, students will read the given book, and do activities based on the book. The activities include having a...
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Flip Flop

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars participate in a stretching warm-up exercise. In this physical education lesson, students warm up the large muscle groups by standing on their hands and legs in a belly up position or a belly down position. Young scholars...
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Warm-Up Exercise with Hula Hoop

For Teachers 1st - 8th
To improve mobility, social skill development, and the concept of position, learners with physical disabilities work together to raise and lower a hula hoop over their heads. The activity is short and intended to be used as a warm-up.
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Health Importance

For Teachers 1st
First graders create a poster about health after filling out a survey on a health topic. In this health lesson plan, 1st graders read the Staying Clean and Fit section of their health book.
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What Can I Do?

For Teachers K - 6th
Here is a good way for children to identify ways to handle conflict. They discuss the connection between feelings and conflict. Everyone listens to a story about a conflict between two friends and they discuss what they could have done...
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Musical Hoops

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use locomotor skills to move to a hoop, where they solve a math problem, and use a locomotor skill to return to the beginning spot.
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Spongebob Squarepants Tag

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students role-play Spongebob Squarepants characters while participating in a P.E. tag game.
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Willie Wonka Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars play "Willie Wonka" tag (a form of freeze tag). They are in two groups, runners and taggers. The runners' goal is to find a golden ticket under a gum drop (spot marker). Runners try to avoid being tagged with a licorice...
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Introduction to Yoga

For Teachers K - 12th
Students are introduced to yoga for fitness and relaxation. Over the course of the lesson, students practice various yoga poses and relaxation methods. They complete two minute yoga stations after all of the poses have been demonstrated.
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Exercise: The Right Stuff

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore how regular exercise keeps the body strong and healthy.
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The Inside Story of Muscles, Bones and Exercise

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore how they can help their muscles and bones grow strong through the use of physical activity.
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Alien Invaders!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils play math detectives and solve a series of story problems or word problems in order to finish an adventure. The activity connects math and reading while reinforcing critical thinking and problem-solving skills

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