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Ship Ahoy!
Fourth graders develop a schedule of fitness activities to meet the needs of a diverse group of people with a wide range of ages, physical abilities, and fitness levels. An instructional manager be assigned to each station to lead the...
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Run for your Health
Students, in groups, search the Internet for evidence to support the idea about a relationship between physical activities, health and well being. They create a flyer or newsletter for a campaign to recruit students to the runner's club...
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States of Fitness
Young scholars participate in physical activities coordinating to divisions on a map.
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Fitness Race Track
Middle schoolers complete a series of exercises and run laps. They estimate what their heart rate be at the end of the session and then check their estimates.
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Discovery Pacing
Students discover strategies for pacing themselves when running longer distances on a quarter mile track.
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Candy Land
Students receive a set of five index cards with colors on them. They must run to the cones in the order their index cards are in. There are many adaptations to this game.
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Get in Shape: Exercise Daily
Students do four different exercises followed by a one lap run and four minute aerobic dance.
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Personal Fitness Assessment
Young scholars engaged in practice for a physical fitness exam. The practice is beneficial for overall student fitness. The instructor measures key factors of health that include height and weight.
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When One Beat Is Better Than Two
Fourth graders create an individualized wellness plan that addresses these controllable health risk factors:obesity, high cholesterol level, high blood pressure and inactivity.
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Aerobic Frisbee Golf
Students work cooperatively to accurately throw a Frisbee in order to learn about fitness components and different systems of the human body.
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What Goes in Must Come Out
Learners monitor their calorie intake and energy expenditure. They keep track of daily data in a journal and assess and adjust their diets as appropriate.
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Health
Students increase their awareness of issues that are related to accommodating students with health impairments. In this health lesson students participate in a class discussion and answer questions.