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Games on Echolocation
Get a little batty with life science! This fun simulation game replicates how bats use echolocation to hunt moths in their native Hawaiian habitat. After creating blind folds and discussing some basic principles of echolocation, students...
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Water in Your Body
Do you know how much water you have had in the last 24 hours? Do you know how much your body needs? In this hands-on activity, your class members will estimate how much water our bodies lose each day by filling and emptying one-liter...
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Manners
Students investigate the concept of manners and how they should be exercised at school. This lesson is a foundation of classroom management for Physical Education and is meant to be adapted to other classes if needed. Students focus upon...
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Consuming Healthy Snacks
Get your class into great shape by introducing them to the benefits of eating healthy snacks and engaing in regular exercise. This set of activities comes with all the worksheets and handouts needed to complete several weeks of nutrition...
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Serving Sizes
Are serving sizes for different foods always appropriate for what you need? In this hands-on activity, learners work in groups to estimate what one serving size of various foods are, and then evaluate their hypotheses by measuring...
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Heart Rate and Exercise
What is the relationship among the heart, circulation, and exercise? Your class members will explore first-hand how different physical exercises affect an individual's heart rate. They will begin by learning how to measure their own...
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Indoor Physical Activity Ideas for Kids!
Rainy day schedule doesn't mean you can't stay fit! Use a collection of indoor physical activities during periods of inclement weather, substitute teaching days, or for those afternoons when your class just wants to move around!
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Beep! Beep!
First graders demonstrate knowledge of the difference between general and personal space, and ability to change speed on command. They demonstrate competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical...
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Musical Hoops
Pre-schoolers gain a better understanding of personal space by playing this modified version of musical chairs. Played like musical chairs, students circle around a ring of hula hoops as music plays. When the music stops everyone needs...
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Personal Fitness: Merit Badge
This personal fitness workbook provides all of the steps that scouts must complete to earn their merit badge. It requires a physical and dental exam, documentation of current health issues, understanding of behaviors detrimental to...
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Sportsmanship: Grades 9-12
The increasing number of unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, red cards, and ejections from games points out the need for activities that help young people recognize behaviors that exemplify good sportsmanship. For homework, class members...
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Your Motivation and Goal Setting Worksheet
Set your health and fitness goals the write way! With this journaling instructional activity, your class will determine health and fitness goals specific to their individual needs, consider why and how they will work to achieve their...
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Be Strong / Live Strong Stationary Bike Program
Young scholars participate in a Be Strong Bike Program that rewards them for exhibiting positive behavior. If a student is caught doing something good, they receive a positive behavior slip that has a written description of their...
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Volleyball Lesson
Students explore their physical abilities by participating in a sport. In this volleyball lesson, students discover the different techniques and skills needed to play volleyball by moving from different stations with small groups....
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Body Strength
Your young learners will discover how muscular strength and endurance can increase with this truly hands-on activity! Beginning by writing an acrostic for the word strength, class members then engage in tracking their ability to squeeze...
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SMASH Skill Development: Badminton
Students perform the SMASH technique and overhand motion. In this SMASH lesson, students practice hitting targets using racquets and the overhand motion. Students also complete a target smash drill using hula hoops.
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Hit a Homer in PE!
Students are introduced to PE rules. They are given feedback on their behavior in class using a bulletin board. Students gather around the bulletin board at the end of each period, if the class followed all the rules that are written...
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P.E. Bees
Pupils practice positive social skills and manners in this short lesson that is used to start each session of P.E. class. They identify a positive behavior, such as be on time, written on a bee cutout pasted among others on the gym...
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Passing and Receiving on the Ground
Students improve skills in partner passing and zigzag soccer passing. In this motor skills lesson, students understand the tactics and performance skills needed to pass a soccer ball. Students display their increased skill in...
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Sports Injury Symptoms & Prevention
Students gain a basic understanding of common symptoms of sporting injuries and how to best prevent sporting injuries. They interpret factors that contribute to personal awareness and their effects on behavior by communicating...
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Volleyball Unit Plan
From battle ball and around-the-world sit-ups to multiple variations of setting and wall-serve drills, check out this list of 29 drills, warm ups, and modified games for your next volleyball unit.
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Nutrition (Weight Management)
Seventh graders explore nutrition and the effect it has by participating in class discussions. For this diet and exercise lesson, 7th graders analyze print advertisements and discuss how unrealistic their expectations are and how...
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Teamwork Hill
Students receive a class score of 1-5 for appropriate behavior and participation during P.E. class. When class exits P.E., they move the class ant to a different fruit or vegetable. Each piece of food is worth 5 points, so some may be in...
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Injury Management
Students identify and act to protect themselves in threatening situations and describe counter-measures for a variety of potentially dangerous situations. They outline the attitudes and behaviors that cause and prevent accidents...