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Arts Now Learning: We Are the Parts [Pdf]
In this lesson, 4th graders will investigate equivalent fractions using their bodies and space.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Zero Clan
In this lesson, students will create and solve a word problem related to adding and subtracting within 1,000, develop a script for a short scene using dialect, and perform it using the elements of performance, specifically acting,...
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Pbs: Simple Games That Explore Feelings
Identify and explore a wide range of human emotions and then participate in a classroom parade dramatizing emotions through body movements and facial expressions.
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: The Twelve Days of Summer Teaching Guide [Pdf]
This teacher's guide for "The Twelve Days of Summer," a book written by Jan Andrews and Susan Rennick Jolliffe, gives instructions on hand and body movements (both seated and standing) that pupils can do to accompany a reading of the book.
PE Central
Pe Central: Physical Education Lesson Plans: Pe Central
An outstanding site for PE lesson plan ideas, Classroom Management ideas, health lesson ideas as well as ideas for field day activities. The lessons are broken down by grade levels. Ideas to teach a comprehensive physical education program.
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Plans: Push Up Routine
Because push-ups are part of most fitness-related tests, it is important that students practice push-ups and, in the process, improve upper body strength. Students able to do push-ups and able to "hold a push-up position for at least 30...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Deep Knee Bends: Measuring Knee Stress With a Mechanical Model
Prosthetic limbs and artificial joints can help people with disease or injury lead a normal life. Sports medicine or physical therapy is also an area that relates to this experiment. Either way, this project serves as a good match if any...
PE Central
Pe Central: Getting Started With Traveling
Pupils practice locomotor skills: walking, marching, galloping, skipping, and "basic traveling skills" during this fun aerobic gym class activity.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: The New Zoos: The Wilder, the Better
Investigate how scientists study the mirror self-recognition of orangutans. Perform an experiment to see how sense of self can become distorted when a reflection doesn't match the sense of body position and movement.
US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: What Is Physical Activity?
This website provides a brief definition of "physical activity" as well as examples of "moderate physical activities" and "vigorous physical activities."
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Pbs: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Features detailed biographical information on women's rights leaders, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Follow key events in the suffrage movement, examine historical documents and essays, and take a look at where women are...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Reflecting on Human Reflexes
Students learn about human reflexes, how our bodies react to stimuli and how some body reactions and movements are controlled automatically, without thinking consciously about the movement or responses. In the associated activity,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Humans Are Like Robots
Four lessons related to robots and people present students with life sciences concepts related to the human body (including brain, nervous systems and muscles), introduced through engineering devices and subjects (including computers,...
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: One Day, Computers May Decode Your Dreams
Wouldn't it be cool to read someone's mind? Maybe? Neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh are developing a mind-reading computer system to hep people with nerve damage send messages from the brain to parts of the body to create...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Are We Like Robots?
Students explore the similarities between how humans move and walk and how robots move, so they come to see the human body as a system from an engineering point-of-view. Movement results from decision making (deciding to walk and move)...
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Joint Mechanism
This website challenges students to make a simple machine out of a straw to mimic the movement of joints in your body. The website includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their design process.
Utah Education Network
Uen: A Moon With a View
Understand the rotation of the earth and the appearance of movement of other bodies in the sky.
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Pbs Learning Media: Kids in Motion: Weather Fitness Lesson Plan
In this lesson plan, learners "rediscover" weather as they use movement to act it out. Using their whole body to bend, stretch and exercise, students follow along as the teacher calls out and moves different types of weather.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Are Your Bowels Moving?
A detailed, kid-friendly explanation of what happens when you move your bowels.
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Pbs: Independent Lens: Strange Fruit: Protest Music Past and Present
Listen to audio clips of songs of protest from eight eras of U.S. history. Explore the lyrics, learn about the songwriters, and gather background information on the music that served and continues to serve as a catalyst for thought,...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Proprioception
The human body has proprioceptors that send signals to the brain so that we are aware of our body's position and movements. Try these simple experiments to learn about proprioception and about other visual and tactile clues that assist...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Diseases of the Nervous System
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The nervous system controls sensing, feeling, and thinking. It also controls movement and just about every other body function. That's why problems with the nervous...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: The Physics of Dance
A scholarly examination of the physics of dance, this reads like the notes of a lecture, so requires some intense reading. It presents a glossary of physics vocabulary, particularly as terms (e.g., torque, static balance) relate to dance...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Exhibition: Extreme Mammals
Learn about the body structure, habitat, reproduction, movement, and evolution of extreme mammals, both extinct and living, through interative animation and short videos.