Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Workout Time!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Provide a fun way to stay healthy with these 30 second workouts from Arthur: "Arthur Weighs In."
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Brain Break I See Sports Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this brain break lesson, students act out different movements, using their psychomotor skills, found in sports.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Minute to Win It Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson is based on the popular game show, Minute to Win It. Students work as a whole class to perform various exercises for one minute in order to gain points.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Bean Bag Challenges

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will learn physical fitness terminology as they participate in a bean bags activity.
Activity
PE Central

Pe Central: Fitness Tests Cues: Sit Ups

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use these tips to help you do sit ups safely in gym class. Learn how to position your hands and how to work with a parter. Also, check out the link to animated demonstration. This information would best accompany an in-class...
Activity
PE Central

Pe Central: Fitness Tests Cues: Push Ups

For Teachers 9th - 10th
At this website, find tips to help you properly do push ups as well as an animated demonstration. Learn how to position your feet, back, and arms and also learn how to do a "Modified," push up.
Lesson Plan
PE Central

Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Fitness/strength Conditioning

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Introduce learners to strength conditioning with a trip to the weight room. After studying the muscles and their functions, students are ready to start strengthening their own muscles with the use of gym equipment and to write about...
Website
University of California

Ucla: Student Nutrition and Body Image Awareness Campaign

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about food, nutrition, fitness, and how to balance health and college activities. Topics included are weight, fitness, diet, nutrition, and body image. The resource consists of information on workshops, classes,...
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Triathlon and Fitness

For Students 5th - 8th
The triathlon is a physically gruelling challenge. Can you work out which athlete burnt the most calories? This activity provides a real-life context for working with proportionality, speed, rates, and units of measurement and is aimed...
Website
Other

Tennis Magazine

For Students 9th - 10th
Tennis.com, the official site of Tennis Magazine, provides up-to-date coverage from the world of tennis. The site provides news stories, player profiles, tennis lessons from professional players, fitness stories, tennis gear reviews,...
PPT
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Virtual Workshop: Food and Fitness Energy for Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A slide presentation that gives students an appreciation for what happens when living organisms use food for energy. Actual hands-on yeast lab exercise is part of the presentation.
Handout
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Physical Activity Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
Who needs physical activity? How can it help? Find out here with this introduction to physical activity from the CDC.
Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Why Exercise Is Wise

For Students 9th - 10th
Some people know that exercising is beneficial, but still find reasons why it isn't a priority. This article relates the importance of exercising and how it can improve your mind and body. Links to similar sites are provided as well.
Handout
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Body and Mind: Activity Cards

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about sports and activities you can participate in to get in shape and have fun. Click on the name of a specific sport and read an "Activity card," with information on sports gear, safety, and more.
Activity
Other

The Grain Chain: Stepping Out: Pedometer Experiment [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use your skills of estimation, observation, and data collection to calculate the amount of energy used during your normal walking throughout the day. Use of a pedometer is suggested, but walking steps could be counted by students while...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Fit for Life

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses how to stay healthy and physically fit through diet and exercise. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Fit for Life

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage includes the information about how to stay healthy for life. This passage is intended as a guided passage to instruct students how to classify and categorize information.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Slim Gym

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how to exercise without a gym or equipment. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: It Feels Good to Laugh

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about why laughing is good for your health. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Celebrate National Nutrition Month!

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text listing some simple things people can do to help them stay healthy. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Other

Gardellini: Sports Medicine

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you interested in Sports Medicine? The Sports Medicine site offers information on careers in this field, college programs, events, fitness/excercise, health/wellness, sports injury, and professional associations.
Lesson Plan
PE Central

Pe Central: Pe Lesson Plans: Push Up Routine

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Because push-ups are part of most fitness-related tests, it is important that young scholars 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...
Lesson Plan
PE Central

Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Aerobic Frisbee Golf

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
The physical activity described at this website combines cardiovascular fitness exercises (frisbee, push-ups, jumping jacks) and academic subjects math and science.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Health and Fitness: Health Quests: Recipe for Recycling

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the given sites and worksheet to brainstorm an original invention for a product to be manufactured from recycled materials.

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