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Fiber

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn and practice the song "Fiber," and explore the importance of fiber in a healthy diet.
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Salad Sisters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn and practice the song "Salad Sisters" and determine how salads are part of a healthy diet.
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Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, working in groups, role play skits highlighting healthy eating habits and physical activities.
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Basketball/Tumbling

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners play basketball games and show knowledge of offense and defense. In this basketball lesson plan, students also answer short answer questions about offense and defense.
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Skipping

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils investigate skipping and sliding. In this movement lesson, students practice skipping and sliding while holding colored chalk marking the wall mixing the colors to make different colors.
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Fast Fats: A Nutritional Analysis of America's Obsession with Fast Foods

For Teachers 10th - 12th
How do you read a nutritional label? Help high schoolers practice reading nutritional labels on foods so they can calculate the calories in different types of foods. They will also examine the effects of fat on the body and the link to...
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Frog Olympics

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the attributes of amphibians. In this physical frog biology instructional activity, students discover facts about the muscles of frogs and then play 2 games that require them to move like frogs.
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Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan- Math

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils perform locomotor movement.  For this locomotor skills lesson, students practice running, hopping, skipping, and walking then form themselves into groups based on a number called out.  Pupils identify if more or less...
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Who Wants To Be A Fitnessaire? Closer

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students enjoy a review game to measure their knowledge about physical activity and the various components of fitness.
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Taking it to the Community

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students communicate with an audience about a public health issue in multiple manners. They share their outreach materials with their peers and their chosen audience within the community.
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Skipping - 360 degrees - Advanced Twister

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners learn to jump rope with the purpose of learning how to become physically active. The benefit of the lesson is that children battle the negative effects of being sedentary for any extended period of time.
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Grocery Store Problem Solving

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore healthy eating habits by viewing instructional videos in class. For this food pyramid lesson, 4th graders identify the different classifications within the food pyramid and identify how they can improve overall...
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Modified Orienteering

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students participate in activities using compass settings. They find north and notate the bearings of objects that have been set up in the school yard. They find marks that both visible and hidden behind and under things like trees, and...
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Listen Up!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students stand facing a partner (about 5 feet apart). When music is played the partners do a specified exercise. They listen to the music, and when the music stops, the students sit on the floor as quickly as possible. The first student...
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Muscle Flexibility and Strength

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders listen to the definition of muscle strength and observe the teacher demonstrate how to do an abdominal crunch. They then do abdominal crunches for 20 seconds. They gather information about flexibility and strength and...
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Nutritionist for Hire

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders role play that they are nutritionists devising a healthy dietary plan that focuses on the client's needs.
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"Know How" to Line Up

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify and define several movements physically acted out. They participate in a freeze activity in which they line up performing different movements. For example, they line up (1) if they are doing a strength exercise, (2)...
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People Bingo

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students get to know one another. They move around the room asking classmates questions that are on the card and making up a Bingo card. They find somebody that answers a question on their card and writes their name in that square.
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The Best Place in the United States to Live

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, working in small groups, analyze information provided in U.S. maps to make a logical determination of the best place to live in the United States in regards to natural and human-made hazards. Then, working individually, they...
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Balanced Meals

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the importance of eating a balanced meal. They observe a video of people suffering from malnutrition, eating disorders, and obesity. They plan a balanced lunch menu for a week.
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Jingle Bell Jog

For Teachers K - 12th
Students make the connection of doing something positive for people in need by offering this student activity that reaches out to the entire surrounding community by getting sponsors for a "jog/walk-a-thon".
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Turkey exercises

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students draw a colored feather out of a turkey made from a bag and colorful paper feathers. Each color feather corresponds to a different exercise that students must perform.
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Fiber - Adding It To The Diet - Skill Supplement

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine and prepare a recipe and state the purpose of each ingredient. They complete a worksheet based on the food pyramid.
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On the Sidelines

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate their pulse rate. They chart their resting pulse rate if they are unable to participate in Physical Education using a stop watch.

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