Students use a ball to improve their dribbling skills, defensive and offensive strategies, cardiovascular fitness, and cooperation. In this ball handling lesson, students try to grab the ball and trap it from their partner. Partners try...

Students explore reasons to stay physically fit. They participate in activities that address excuses people use for not being active. Students discuss benefits of exercise. Students write personal goals for physical fitness and share...

Students, working in groups, role play skits highlighting healthy eating habits and physical activities.

Pupils examine the importance of physical activity and positive reasons for weight training. They analyze and discuss a famous ad, read and summarize an article, and identify the benefits of resistance training.

Students participate in a demonstration in which they must attempt to suck liquid from varying containers with straws of varying sizes. They discuss the concept of coevolution and see why this activity illustrate the coevolution of...

Students practice using their physical skills while performing physical activities.  In this physical education lesson, students participate in musical orchestrated dances with their classmates.  Students utilize a jump rope...

From battle ball and around-the-world sit-ups to multiple variations of setting and wall-serve drills, check out this list of 29 drills, warm ups, and modified games for your next volleyball unit. 

Learners elevate their heart rate and practice fitness skills. They work together to complete a list of exercises simultaneously.

Fifth graders discuss what aerobic exercise is, and the origin of its meaning. They view a list of activiities and and discuss why they are considered aerobic while other activities such as baseball is not considered aerobic exercise....

Students participate in physical activities coordinating to divisions on a map.

Students enhance fitness through the use of stations, working with another, and technology (e.g., digiwalkers).

Students participate in fitness challenge. After choosing a destination they would like to visit, students record their mileage to their destination after riding on bikes and walking on treadmills. Students receive an incentive...

Students spread out in general space. Have 2/4 students be the taggers. On the teachers signal the activity starts with the taggers trying to tag the "runners". When taggeg, students then go to an area and perform an exercise.

Students move a bean bag in a variety of activities aimed at increasing flexibility.

Learners create a fitness schedule for a famous person.  In this advice, encourage, discourage lesson, students ask questions to determine the best fitness schedule for a person.  Learners relate this activity to that of...

Pupils complete a 3-catch basketball activity to improve their basketball skills. In this basketball skills lesson, students participate in a 3-catch basketball activity with defense.

Students in a middle elementary physical education class participate in a warm-up activity in which they perform several hip-hop dance moves. They do the mountain climber, the coffee grinder, the seat spin, and others. They even come...

Take learners through a fitness center led by someone who can go over the equipment, use of it, individualize it (small groups). They should be allowed time to find out where they are now and time to set realistic goals of what they'd...

Students discover how to play sports fairly by role playing sports scenarios in class.  In this sportsmanship instructional activity, students participate in a charades activity in which they act out a random event while the class...

Students complete activities regarding good sportsmanship. For this sportsmanship lesson plan, students discuss winning, losing, and cheating. They participate in Sportsmanship scenarios and discuss what they would do in each...

In the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico, some tiny creatures show just how quickly natural selection can turn a mutation into an advantageous adaptation. Watch a video about rock pocket mice, who show that one small change can make all...

Fourth graders explore ballet. In this dance and music humanities instructional activity, 4th graders practice ballet positions and play a card game using French ballet vocabulary. Students count beats in rhythm patterns and listen to...

Label the major muscle groups in the human body. This worksheet is two pages, one for the anterior/front view and one for the posterior/back view. The class labels the major muscle group, the common name for the group, and identifies an...

Set your health and fitness goals the write way! With this journaling worksheet, your class will determine health and fitness goals specific to their individual needs, consider why and how they will work to achieve their goals, and...