PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fitness Dice: Lesson Plan
Read the die to find out what exercise to do and how many repetitions are needed, keep a running tally of rolls to see who gets the highest score.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Animal Fitness Lesson Plan
In this lesson using commonly known animals such as a fox, dog and an inchworm, students enjoy learning about the movements of various animals. The teacher demonstrates how to move and be like that animal using various exercises and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Birthday Fitness Lesson Plan
In this activity, surrounding a theme children love, their birthdays, students will exercise, move and stretch in way you might while celebrating a birthday.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Arthur Family Health: Fitness
Here are some resources to help you and your family understand the basics of staying fit. Read some facts, play some games, and take a quiz to check for understanding.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Butterfly Life Cycle Fitness Lesson Plan
Science and exercise unite in this lesson! Students learn about the life cycle of a butterfly while performing certain physical tasks at each stage.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Health House: Food, Fitness and Fun: 24/7
Engage your learners in what it means to live a healthy life. They'll learn how to read food labels and understand basic nutrition. They'll take part in fun active play and learn about exercise benefits. Learn why healthy habits such as...
BBC
Bbc: Health & Fitness: Improve Your Aerobic Fitness
BBC provides exercises and ideas to keep you healthy and in shape with aerobic exercise. Site includes exercises with a treadmill, exercise bike and skipping. Links to a plethora of other fitness and sport-related subjects.
New York Times
New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Physical Fitness
An interactive and printable crossword puzzle developed by the New York Times Learning Network. The theme of this puzzle is Physical Fitness. Other links, including Just Move and Shape Up America, are also included.
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Fitness Race Track
In the gym, set up a "fitness race track" where students can both run and participate in a variety of exercises like push-ups, crunches, and jump roping. A great warm-up activity to precede a sport or physically-demanding lesson plan.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Getting Healthy: Physical Activity: Get Moving!
Learn about the health benefits of exercise. Content includes helpful tips on how to incorporate activity into your daily life and a link to the association's guidelines for improving heart health through fitness.
Other
Recreation & Health for Children
Japanese content. The site aims to promote physical fitness for children and provides news items and information on fitness tests, how to exercise, where you to play sports, and how to promote an active and healthy lifestyle. You can...
Read Works
Read Works: You Can Do It
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about setting and achieving goals for physical fitness. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Cross Train Your Way to Fitness
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining the benefits of cross-training. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Family Doctor: Why Exercise Is Wise
In order to exercise we usually need to be motivated. This article may motivate you to find the benefits of physical fitness as well as provide some suggestions for its implementation. Links to related articles are also provided.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Is Lactic Acid a Four Letter Word?
This essay by exercise physiologist Patti Finke and fitness consultant Warren Finke describes the process by which our bodies transform food energy into energy that our cells can use.
PE Central
Pe Central: Water Fitness
Find ideas for water fitness and aerobics at this website. While in a pool, you can use kickboards, water jugs, fins, and water resistant equipment as you participate in a variety of activities: a warm-up, stretches, cardiovascular...
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Fitness Four Square
At this website, learn about a game that combines four square and other aerobic exercises. Includes ideas for assessing learners' participation in the activity as well as adapting the activity for students with physical disabilities.
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Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor Certificate
This site tells of a correspondence course that you can take to become certified. It also has information on career opportunities.
English Club
English Club: Health, Food and Fitness Crossword 7
This English Club activity provides a crossword that assesses vocabulary words associated content from health class. Students will be able to receive hints, check individual responses, and check their entire completed puzzle.
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission: Consumer Information: Health and Fitness
Learn how to decode ads for products that promise to cure everything from baldness and cancer to diabetes and dementia, and for services that say they will shape you up, restore your youthful glow, and turn those abs into a well-defined...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Health and Fitness: Health Quests: Stop Substance Abuse
Spread the word about the risks of tobacco and drug abuse and learn basic HTML at the same time. Use the links provided by this site to learn facts about addiction.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Health and Fitness: Health Quests: School Nutritionist
Use the given sites and worksheet to evaluate and create school lunch menus that meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
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American Diabetes Association: Food and Fitness: What Can I Eat: Eating Out
Learn to make low fat, low sugar, and low sodium food choices, even when eating out. This guide serves as a helpful tool not only for diabetics who need to control their blood glucose levels, but for anyone seeking to eat healthfully,...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: You Are What You Eat!
Thinking about improving your sports performance? Want to help friends and family make the most of their physical fitness activities? One factor to consider is food. Whether you realize it or not, what you eat does change your body. It...
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