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Healthy Body Image: Healthy Exercises for Every Body

For Students 9th - 12th
From three-way neck rolls to a figure-5 hurdler's stretch, this is an ultimate guide to healthy exercises. It begins with a bulleted list of general guidelines on cardiorespiratory exercise, flexibility, resistance exercises, and range...
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5 Components of Physical Fitness

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Physical fitness is a vital part of maintaining our learners' health. This PowerPoint imparts the importance of physical fitness and the 5 components they need to understand in order to obtain a healthy body. This presentation is well...
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Health Related Fitness

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Emphasize the five fitness components to your class, in order to teach them how to live a healthy lifestyle:  strength, endurance, flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, and body composition. Your class can create their own web...
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Teaching Fundamental Movement

For Teachers K - 6th
Learners perform fundamental movement activities for flexibility and motor skills. In this movement lesson plan, students perform physical activity for all grade levels.
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Stretching Muscles Properly

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Tootsie rolls as a teaching aid? Absolutely. Demonstrate to young athletes the importance of warmups and stretching  with an activity that asks them to try and stretch a piece of cold taffy. Class members hold the taffy in their...
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Gymnastics Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate the importance of having a healthy body by performing gymnastics.  In this physical education lesson, students utilize their flexibility and body strength to perform intense physical gymnastic maneuvers with the...
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The Polymer Schoolhouse

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study various objects and determine plastic and non-plastic.  For this creative lesson students get into groups and create a diorama to show the different properties they discovered. 
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Horton Hatches the Egg

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners explore space awareness and safe movement. In this movement/physical education instructional activity, students listen to the book Horton Hatches a Who. Learners pretend to be Horton and rotate from hula hoop to hula hoop...
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Being Flexible

For Students 6th - 9th
In this flexibility worksheet, students read a paragraph about a soda can that exploded in a car. They choose from a list of options the possibilities for the can exploding. They practice using flexible thinking skills.
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Fitness Four Square

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils 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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Health: Exercising the Heart

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the relationship between exercise and a healthy heart. After listing the types of exercise and the benefits of aerobic exercise, they set personal goals and design their own fitness plans. In addition, 4th graders...
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An Attitude of Change

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine ways in which businesses change and what it takes to make the changes and keep ahead of the competition.
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Assessing My Fitness Level (Being the Best I Can Be)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the five components of physical fitness: cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition. They monitor heart rates, calculate target heart ranges, and assess levels of...