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Sports and Fitness Festival
Students explore new sports and activities which lead them to a healthy lifestyle.
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Fitness 500
Students play a game with a hula hoop, jump rope, and scooter that requires them to develop locomotor movements skills.
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Super 6 Fitness Stations (with Digi-Walker pedometers)
Students complete physical education circuits wearing digi-walkers and recording steps on a data sheets.
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Dance Team/ Collaborative Fitness Routines
Students experience the process of creating a "dance team" type routine by following a set procedure.
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Extension Activity Building a Healthy Classroom Community
Workout buddies aren't just for adults! Learners discuss the benefits of 60 minutes of physical activity each day and generate ideas for how they can accomplish this by working toward a goal with friends.
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Walking & Running
Here's a fun collection of activities for helping youngsters develop body awareness, walking and running skills, spatial awareness, fine motor skills, and adaptive physical education skills such as following directions.
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Sports Safety: Grades 6-8
Sports safety is the focus of two activities. Scholars read an article concerning sports safety then complete a handout that challenges them to list sports injuries and ways to prevent them. After reading the second set of articles, a...
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Pokemon Are Smart and Healthy
Students play a dodge-ball type game (with bean bags) as they perform a number of mental math and physical challenges.
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President's Challenge: Matching
A 5 question activity to match a physical fitness activity with its definition. This is not much use on it's own, but it could be used as an extension to another lesson.
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Adapted Physical Education: Track and Field
Here you'll find a list of ideas and activity descriptions for hosting an adaptive physical education or special olympics event. It includes the setting, rules, and pointers for over 10 different track and field activities.
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Partner Mile Run: Heart Rate Calculation
Students improve fitness, calculate target heart rates and prepare for the mile run physical fitness test.
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Tae-Bo
Seventh graders explore physical fitness by performing Tae Bo. In this physical education lesson, 7th graders practice using mixed martial arts techniques by completing a Tae Bo fitness exercise in class. Students reflect on...
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Physical Education: Tag - You're Wet!
Students play a version of water tag under close adult supervision. In waist high water, several students are "it" and the remaining class members have to get to the other side of the pool without being tagged. The first student to...
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Straights and Curves
Young scholars stride the straights and walk the curves on a track in order to improve physical fitness. They work on varied lengths for the strides and walks.
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Delicious Dinners by Jr. Chefs
Students create a protein-rich dinner. In this nutrition lesson, students brainstorm foods that are rich in protein. Students make burritos and identify the color of meat when it is cooked thoroughly.
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Jr. Chef Club Making Brainy Breakfasts
Young scholars identify the benefits of eating a nutritious breakfast. In this nutrition activity, students read food labels to identify foods that are low in sugar. Young scholars create a healthy breakfast by using eggs and low-fat...
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Internet Scavenger Hunt
Students complete a webquest. They practice the tools needed and the variety of information available on the Internet to enhance their physical education/ personal fitness classes in an internet lab/cooperative learning environment.
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Circulatory System: The Beat Goes On!
With schools focusing on physical fitness activities, now is the perfect time to teach students about the circulatory system.
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Jumping
First graders perform a series of fitness activities. In this jumping lesson, 1st graders go to six stations and complete a jumping activity at each. Students become aware of various jumping techniques.
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Cosmic PE Bowling
Young scholars explore fitness through participation in a lifetime activity. They are shown the mechanics, scoring, etc for bowling. Students recieve PE twice a week during this time. They have what is called "Cosmic Bowling in PE"...
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Exercise and Water
Second graders discover the needs of their body by trying different types of aerobic exercise. In this physical education lesson, 2nd graders analyze The Busy Body Book by glancing at the pictures inside and predicting what the...
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Winter Olympics in the Gym
Students develop their physical fitness while learning about some of the Winter Olympic Games.
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NUTRITION STATION CIRCUIT
Young scholars learn various fitness concepts along with various basketball skills. Ten stations incorporate nutrition and basketball skills while
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Mended Hearts, Broken Hearts, Healthy Hearts, Half-Hearted
Students integrate locomotor movements with nutrition information. They solve simple math functions related to the calories-per-gram contents of each nutrient and perform fitness activities to match the number of calories contained in...
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