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Volleyball - Lesson 15 - Tactile Approach

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What happens when the opponents hit a hard spiked ball downward at you? Dig it! More practice digging! Lesson 15 reviews and refocuses on the skill of digging that was taught in lesson 14. The players can never have enough practice...
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All About Me: Measuring Height and Weight

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students take personal fitness inventories. In this personal health lesson, students take measurements of their heights and weights. Students record the data, calculate their BMI, and then chart their physical activity.
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Dining Out With Fishes and Birds of the Hudson

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
The class will make observations to determine how environment has shaped the way particular birds and fish eat. They will view a series of photographs, read two short articles, and then consider how food availability has determined how...
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Formula for Fitness

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Many youngsters don't understand that fitness is a life-long endeavor, and that it really pays off to be healthy. Use a spreadsheet to document progress in a fitness plan to see if there really in a benefit to running and exercise. Adapt...
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Fitness plan: number 3

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils monitor their fitness levels for six weeks of their P.E. course through the use of an Excel spreadsheet. They also research the obesity epidemic among youth in the U.S. today, presenting their findings to the class. This lesson...
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Volleyball - Lesson 1 - Setting up to Attack

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The most important skill to learn in volleyball is passing and bumping. This skill should be practiced every day. The first lesson in this unit of twenty lessons is all about passing. Get a good foundation going and learn how to pass well.
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Volleyball - Lesson 2 - Setting up to Attack

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The focus in lesson two of this 20 lesson volleyball unit is learning how to bump pass. The key to playing volleyball well is for everyone to be able to make good bump passes. It is the first skill used to set up an attack. Pass, set,...
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Volleyball - Lesson 3 - Setting Up to Attack

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The focus of Lesson three in this 20 lesson plan volleyball unit is setting the ball. Proper technique for hand position, contact position, stance, and facing direction are reviewed. These skills are practiced individually and in small...
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Volleyball - Lesson 4 - Setting Up to Attack

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Volleyball - Lesson 4 covers the skill of chasing an errant volleyball pass and putting it back into the proper playing area. This is done by chasing down the ball and using a reverse forearm pass. This takes a lot of practice to get...
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Volleyball - Lesson 6 - Forearm Pass

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Feet to the ball, belly button to the target, flat platform. These are the three main cues for making a good forearm pass in volleyball. Teach these cues, practice these skills, work on performing a good forearm pass. Yes, practice,...
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Volleyball - Lesson 7 - Setting up the Attack

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Lesson seven out of this 20 lesson unit focuses on setting up to attack. There is a lot to consider and know with regard to attacking to score a point. This piece focuses on passing the ball to the setter, who then focuses on setting the...
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Volleyball - Lesson 13 - Setting up to Attack and Winning the Point

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Now that the basics of passing, setting, and hitting have been covered, it's time to put it all together. Lesson 13 has groups of players practicing to pass, set, spike. Communication is emphasized. It takes a lot of practice to be...
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Soccer - Lesson 2 - Passing and Receiving with a Partner

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Teach the class the skills of passing a soccer ball to a partner and receiving a pass from a partner. Passing in soccer is the skill that is used most, so it would be advantageous to learn to do different types of passes and practice to...
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Weights and Conditioning

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars discover that circuit training is a stressful program of exercise that helps people prepare for individualized programs to maintain levels of fitness and to stimulate the cardio-vascular system. They follow the teacher...
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Subtracting Integers: Math, Physical Education, Dancing, Negative Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers demonstrate their understanding of positive and negative integers by adding and subtracting. More importantly, students explain why a negative number, subtracted from a negative number, changes the operation.
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Solar Kit Lesson # 12 - Calibration Curve for a Radiation Meter

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Scientists need to have mastered algebraic slope-intercept concepts in order for this lesson to be effective. They will measure and graph solar panel output as a function of the amount of radiation striking it, discovering that there is...
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Solar Kit Lesson #15 - Solar-Powered Electrolysis of Water and the Hydrogen Economy

For Teachers 10th - 12th
An outstanding lesson awaits your physics fledglings! After reading about how hydrogen can act as an energy carrier, they examine the electrolysis of water using solar power. They test the gases produced for flammability and will...
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HELP! HELP! SOMEONE IS HURT!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers study a programmed response to any emergency situation that they may encounter during physical education classes without pandemonium breaking out.
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Sound: Are All Sounds Loud?

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore physics by utilizing education software. In this sound properties lesson, 1st graders discuss the different sounds associated with different materials and perform an object dropping experiment in class....
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Fit For Life

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in a daily school-wide fitness program which takes place every morning following morning announcements. They complete a warm-up, a cardiovascular workout, a strength and endurance workout and finally, a cool down.
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ESL Lesson Idea: Describing People

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice using the proper vocabulary to provide a physical description of a person. They focus on the details that are necessary to give a complete description by participating in a teacher directed guessing game.
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Fitness Challenge

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students participate in a year-long physical fitness challenge. They record their weekly physical activities which occur outside of the normal school day. To be included the activity must be 30 minutes or more in duration, must raise...
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Cardiovascular Fitness

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design a cardiovascular fitness program that encourages them to implement it in their daily lives.
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Food Pyramid

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils identify good nutrition. In this food pyramid lesson plan, students learn the basics of good nutrition, identify the six basic food groups, state the effects of the food on the human body, and learn nutritional information while...