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Presidential Youth Fitness Challenge
Find out how you can take part in the President's Challenge to increase your physical activity and earn awards.
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Pbs Learning Media: Vacation Fitness Lesson Plan
This lesson is a very relatable fitness activity! Students use their bodies to move through the motions of going on a vacation.
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Hhs: Physical Activity Fundamental to Preventing Disease
Here, read statistics from the US Department of Health and Human Services concerning exercise and its key role in preventing chronic illness and premature death. Use these findings from medical studies in which diseases were studied in...
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Pbs Learning Media: Season Fitness Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students have fun in fitness as they follow along with their teacher to perform various exercises and stretches found in the different seasons. Doing activities like playing baseball and cross-country skiing, students...
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Pbs Learning Media: Kids in Motion: Water Cycle Fitness Lesson Plan
In this lesson plan, students unite science and physical activity to learn about the water cycle!
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Pbs Learning Media: Fitness Background Information
Learn about the importance of fitness, with this guide from Arthur: "Arthur Weighs In."
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Pbs Learning Media: Fitness Bingo Lesson Plan
This instructional activity is similar to traditional bingo. Each student gets a fitness bingo card. Creating space between them and their peers, students will act out the exercise if they have it on their bingo card.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Physical Activity Introduction
Who needs physical activity? How can it help? Find out here with this introduction to physical activity from the CDC.
US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: Why Is Physical Activity Important?
This site includes a simple list of reasons why getting exercise is important for your physical and emotional well-being. Also, learn definitions and examples of aerobic activities, resistance activities, and stretching activities.
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Recreation & Health for Children
Japanese content. The site aims to promote physical fitness for children and provides news items and information on fitness tests, how to exercise, where you to play sports, and how to promote an active and healthy lifestyle. You can...
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Pbs Learning Media: States of Matter Fitness Lesson Plan
For this lesson, students use their science knowledge and apply it using physical activity! Learning about the stages of matter, solid, liquid and gas, students perform an exercise for each as the teacher calls out an object such as soup...
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Pbs Learning Media: Memory Lane Fitness Lesson Plan
With this activity, students get a brain and body workout! Students work in pairs as the teacher calls out physical tasks such as high fives and tunnel tens. As the teacher is calling out these partner exercises, students must listen...
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Pbs Learning Media: Uno Fitness Lesson Plan
This lesson uses the popular card game, UNO. Students form small groups, and then take turns picking up cards and performing a specific exercise. Each card color has a designated exercise associated with it and the number on the card...
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Pbs Learning Media: Sports Fitness Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students learn about fitness and sports! Students follow along with their teacher to perform exercises that can be found in all different sports.
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Pbs Learning Media: Active Deck of Cards: Lesson Plan
Read playing cards so the suit determines the type of physical activity, and the face value determines the number of repetitions.
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Pbs Learning Media: Fitness Tips for Kids
Help children learn easy ways to stay physically fit, in this guide from Arthur.
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Pbs Learning Media: Fitness Tips for Grown Ups
Learn ways to stay active with your children, in this guide from Arthur: "Arthur Weighs In."
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Fitness Partner: Activity Calorie Calculator
Let this exercise calculator figure the number of calories you burn while doing over 222 different physical activities.
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Pbs Learning Media: Kids in Motion: Weather Fitness Lesson Plan
In this lesson plan, learners "rediscover" weather as they use movement to act it out. Using their whole body to bend, stretch and exercise, students follow along as the teacher calls out and moves different types of weather.
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Pbs Learning Media: Survival Fitness Lesson Plan
In this instructional activity, students learn survival skills while getting in shape! Students follow along with their teacher as they act out the important survival skills they would need as if they were on a deserted island.
Public Health Agency of Canada
Public Health Agency of Canada: Family Guide to Physical Activity for Youth (10 14 Years of Age)
The Public Healthy Agency of Canada provides parents, caregivers and guardians of youth ages ten through fourteen with a resource guide to help them instill the importance of being active, having fun and how this will lead to health...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Triathlon and Fitness
The triathlon is a physically gruelling challenge. Can you work out which athlete burnt the most calories? This activity provides a real-life context for working with proportionality, speed, rates, and units of measurement and is aimed...
US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: Tips for Increasing Physical Activity
Learn how to "make physical activity a part of the day." This brief article suggests incorporating simple and fun activities into your daily routine while at home, at work, and at play. Includes great tips for people of all ages.
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Glencoe: Online Study Tools: Quiz on Physical Activity and Personal Fitness
Learners show comprehension of physical health. The online quiz assesses the scholars on physical activity and personal fitness.