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Gymnastic Skills
Students compete in a variety of games. In this gymnastic skills lesson plan, students play tag, participate in a challenge course, and practice gymnastics moves to increase physical fitness.
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Run for your Health
Young scholars, 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...
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Food Pyramid and Dietary Guidelines
Students examine Food Guide Pyramid and Dietary Guidelines. They look at samples of serving sizes, sort different foods into their correct groups, complete worksheets to discover which types of foods they eat regularly, and discuss...
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Walking on Sunshine Fitness Dance
Knee bends, jumping jacks, arm stretches, arm circles, and just jumping around are some of the moves used in this dance workout. Get those youngsters up and moving to the beat of "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves. It's all...
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Consuming Healthy Snacks
Get your class into great shape by introducing them to the benefits of eating healthy snacks and engaing in regular exercise. This set of activities comes with all the worksheets and handouts needed to complete several weeks of nutrition...
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Heart Rate and Exercise
What is the relationship among the heart, circulation, and exercise? Your class members will explore first-hand how different physical exercises affect an individual's heart rate. They will begin by learning how to measure their own...
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Children's Health on the Decline
Demonstrate the importance of children's health with this cross-curricular lesson plan, which includes elements from health and science as well as expository writing. Middle schoolers develop realistic and obtainable one week health and...
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Physical Education Deal or No Deal
Divide your class into teams to play Deal or No Deal relating to physical education topics. Learners share a variety of activities that contribute to physical fitness as they play this game. This is a motivating lesson for your class....
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Body Strength
Your young learners will discover how muscular strength and endurance can increase with this truly hands-on activity! Beginning by writing an acrostic for the word strength, class members then engage in tracking their ability to squeeze...
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Energy Sources
Take the concept of burning calories to a more literal level in the second of seven lessons about energy in the realm of food and fitness. Using simple materials, groups will burn breakfast cereal and a pecan to see which one gives off...
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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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Iron Tiger 10 Day Triathlon
Students increase their fitness levels and determine attainable personal fitness goals. They participate in in a triatholon in which they perform three cardiovascular activities and record total miles traveled.
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Camouflage and Protective Coloration: A Model of Natural Selection
Young scholars collect data and compare whether protective coloration or camouflage provides better biological fitness in a given environment. They simulate predator prey interactions of two different species and use gene frequencies to...
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Mystery Puzzle Race
Students work on fitness in stations where they are assigned specific tasks (ex. jumping jacks) that must be performed as a group before moving on to the next station.
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10-20-30 Second Club
Middle schoolers participate in running exercises to accumulate points for their running team. They earn ten, twenty, or thirty points for improving their running time, then line up with their team to add up their team's total running...
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What's Up, Doc?
Pupils explore cardiovascular fitness and create and follow a fitness program. They document the benefits of participating in a fitness program.
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Building Blocks for a Healthy Body
Students watch a video and discuss the benefits of regular exercise. They use books, Internet sites and interviews with health professionals to develop a list of activities to develop physical fitness.
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ACE: Aerobic Conditioning Exercises
Students participate in a variety of aerobic conditioning exercises in preparation for the President's Challenge Fitness Test. As a whole class they participate in a fast walk exercise, and rotate through different fitness stations...
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Easter Egg Hunt
Students increase cardiovascular endurance and develop the components of health related fitness.
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Nick News Lesson Plan
Students examine the connection between good health and physical activities. They watch a video, discuss physical fitness, and develop a plan for lifelong health.
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Local Heroes
Students discover the importance of physical fitness. In this personal health lesson, students learn messages and receive demonstrations about good physical fitness practices, health messages, and safety tips.
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Scooterville
Young scholars practice safe driving on a scooter, following the "rules of the road", to develop fitness.
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Card Suit Aerobics
First graders perform a variety of locomotor skills to enhance aerobic fitness and explain different movements that can be used to keep fit and active.
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Math Circuit
Students develop fitness levels and reinforce specific sports skills while integrating basic math.
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