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Fitness Dance
Get those youngsters moving! The activities put together to music are every day warm-up exercises. Jogging in place, jumping jacks, arm circles, and toe touches are a few of the movements presented to get children moving. Teach them the...
Texas Heart Institute
Exercise: What Kinds of Activities Are Best?
What happens in the muscles during anaerobic and aerobic exercise, and how does this affect the heart and our overall health? A cross-curricular lesson that introduces learners to the lifelong benefits of exercise, including the...
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Hokey Pokey Aerobics
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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Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 9 - Conditioning for Water Skiing
It takes muscle strength and muscle endurance to get up on a water ski or wake board, and to stay up. Lesson 9 out of this 22 lesson unit is about conditioning. A resource link at the bottom of the page allows you to view all the...
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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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Water Fitness
High schoolers participate in a series of aerobic exercises in water to help improve fitness.
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How Can You Stay Fit?
Learners identify ways that cardiovascular fitness is achieved and maintained. In this cardiovascular health instructional activity, students discuss what aerobic exercise is and list various activities which address cardiovascular...
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Let's Get Physical
Explore the benefits of physical activity and how it will affect your learners' health. Students track their physical activities for one week and then compare their results. Collaboration with a math teacher woould be useful as it...
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Twist and Shout Stations
Students participate in three different physical education stations while Chubby Checker's song Twist and Shout plays. They pump up an empty bicycle tube at station 1, jump rope at station 2, and dance at station 3.
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Rhythm Sticks
Second graders experience artistic perception of rhythm in music and see how to move their bodies and tap their sticks to the rhythm of a particular song.
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Rhythm Sticks
Music and dance appreciation are important to the education of children to help them appreciate the cultures that make up our society. Rhythm sticks teach kids artistic perception of rhythm in music and how to move their bodies and tap...
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You Be the Coach
Students brainstorm their favorite sports with one another. They work together in small groups based on their interests in sports. They research the coaching of that sport by reviewing different resources. They demonstrate their sport to...
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Sports Screeners
Learners watch videos to discover the amount of physical activity in film and television. They present their findings to the class after viewing a film. They discuss how perceptions in films can influence young people.
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High and Low Tones
Students perform movements to trigger high and low tones in music produced by percussionists.
PE Central
Pe Central: Aerobics: Dance Project
In groups, pupils invent and practice a dance to be part of a larger aerobics routine. Also, students must evaluate their project, explain the roles each team member had in the creation of the routine, and write a creative paper...
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Pe Central: Dance Lesson Ideas: Space Jam Dilemma: Dance
Learn a new line dance during a gym-class activity. The "Space Jam," line dance is an easy way to have fun and participate in an aerobic activity.
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Pe Central: Dance Lesson Ideas: Cool Line
Use the guidelines provided at this website to introduce young students to a simple line dance. Children will learn to move to a beat while participating in a fun, low-impact aerobic activity.