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Adolescent Obesity and Susceptibility to Disease

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students understand the importance of maintaining a healthy weight and good health.  In this health lesson students read text then create their own pamphlet on the cardiovascular system, weight gain, treatments and health risks. 
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Anatomy - What Are Coronary Arteries?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the basic function of the heart, identify blood vessels and coronary arteries. They identify good and bad health behaviors and discuss how these behaviors affect the heart. Students explore how the coronary...
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Walking Willie

For Teachers K - 5th
Students walk for a timed amount over a measured course and receive a paper marker for each 'lap' they complete. At the end of the time period the entire class counts off the total of their markers to determine how many miles have been...
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Line Boogie

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students complete an activity to improve their spatial awareness and loco-motor skills. In this spatial and loco-motor skills lesson plan, students pass a beanbag down the line of students.
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Healthy Hearts

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students research the basic concepts of heart health and disease and become an expert in an area as it relates to the heart and circulatory system. They prepare a multimedia presentation of their findings.
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Heart Word Game

For Students 4th - 5th
In this heart health crossword, students locate 14 words to solve clues and place them in the puzzle. Although this appears to be part of a heart health adult presentation, older students could benefit.
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Basketball: Purposeful and Fun Fitness Activities

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Studnets practice basketball skills. They combine cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, and strength fitness activities with skill practice and review of previously learned skills in the fitness development part of a basketball lesson.
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Place Value Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners increase their cardiovascular endurance through movement. At the same time, they learn place value of numbers to the millionths place.
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The Twelve Ways to Fitness

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work on their cardiovascular and muscular endurance by exercising to the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
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Courtesy Flag Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students improve their cardiovascular fitness while practicing good manners.
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Creating Fitness Goals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a fitness goal to include one of the following: muscle building, cardiovascular development or healthful diet. They utilize a daily calendar to record progress. They utilize the Internet to research proper ways to reach...
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Nutrition Making Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers 1st
First graders comprehend the importance of making healthy food choices for a healthy heart. They discuss the connection between what they eat and a healthy body and heart. Students discriminate between healthy foods, or "heart-smart...
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Exercise for the Heart

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss and understand relationship between physical activity and healthy heart, describe long-term effects of daily physical activity on heart, and set personal goals for daily participation in physical activities that...
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Wrinkled Heart

For Teachers 6th
Contrary to the old saying, words, like sticks, can hurt. That's the central idea in a lesson about the importance of considering another person's perspective, stopping, thinking, and listening before responding in anger to a conflict....
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Healthy Heart

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders experiment with their pulse rate. They investigate a beef heart and locate the route of blood flow and the chambers and discuss the function of each chamber. They discuss the circulatory system and compare theirs to the...
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Stop the Bleeding

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore various parts of the heart and blood vessels . They begin with an overview of the components of the cardiovascular system. They see a cross section of an artery and watch how a blood clot develops.
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Exercise Those Statistics!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in various activities, measuring their pulse rates and recording the data. They analyze the statistical concepts of mean, median, mode, and histograms using the data from the cardiovascular activities.
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Hokey Pokey Aerobics

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in the Hokey Pokey dance while demonstrating various aerobic/cardiovascular moves. They check their heart rates before and after the dance.
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Pedometer Trick or Treat

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars monitor the amount of calories burned with the use of a pedometer. They perform various cardiovascular activities and monitor how many steps it takes to burn enough calories to eat one M&M and other snack foods.
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Blood Vessels & Circulation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a layered curriculum designed lesson in order to study the cardiovascular system of the human body. The assessments and activities are student centered.
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What Happens to Our Hearts When We Are Active?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discover the benefits of a healthy heart through exercise.  In this physical education instructional activity, students participate in a few physical activities in order to get their hearts beating faster.  Students...
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How Hard Is Your Heart Working?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students observe the differences in their pulse from when they are sitting to when they have been doing the "Hokey-Pokey."  In this heart health lesson, students take and record their pulse after they have been doing a quiet...
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Is Your Heart Getting a Good Workout?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice raising their heart rates through exercise.  In this physical education lesson, students discover the key to a healthy body is a healthy heart that must be exercised often.  Students perform a sing along and...
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TE Activity: Muscles, Muscles Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study three different muscle types and investigate the affect of space travel on astronauts' muscles. They examine how exercise has a positive affect on muscle both on Earth and in space while looking at engineers' roles in...

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