Sticking to a physical fitness plan can be tricky. Support young athletes' personal fitness goals with a helpful and strategie lesson plan. They reflect on their daily habits through a pre-assessment and questionnaire, create short...

Students create a portfolio throughout their middle school years on wellness. Students explore their awareness of the connections between health, physical education, and family and consumer sciences with particular emphasis on the areas...

Students discover their body weight and composition. In this health lesson, students use a body mass indicator to identify their percentage of body fat. Students develop an exercise plan and record progress throughout a month.

Get active by dribbling a ball. Begin with a game of banana bunch and high five beanbag grab. Then, practice dribbling a ball, and identifying the part of the hand with which your active learners dribble. Finally, conclude with...

Middle schoolers develop proper work and personal skills that will enable them to become competent and confident adults. Students analyze basic nutritional habits. Middle schoolers evaluate sport/athletic food patterns.

Students create a fitness goal to include one of the following: muscle building, cardiovascular development or healthful diet. They utilize a daily calendar to record progress. They utilize the Internet to research proper ways to reach...

Students demonstrate basic knowledge about how to use a basketball properly. The teaching of the instructional activity is done through modeling and students assessment is done with drilling and practice with the basketball activities.

Pre-schoolers gain a better understanding of personal space by playing this modified version of musical chairs. Played like musical chairs, students circle around a ring of hula hoops as music plays. When the music stops everyone needs...

Leave it to the classic jump rope to get your class excited about physical activity! Your class will begin by discussing the benefits of jumping rope as a form of exercise and learning a few different types of jumps. Then in groups of...

Students practice throwing and catching with a partner or self toss-catch. As a prerequisite skill they should understand safe spaces and have some knowledge of throwing and catching skills.

Seventh graders become familiar with the basics of Badminton.  In this Badminton lesson, 7th graders correctly hold the racket and increase skill in hitting the birdie.  Students become familiar with the rules for a game of...

Students participate in series of rhythmic movements to demonstrate skill in dance elements. In this rhythmic movements instructional activity, students answer sequentially developed questions which include clapping and marching to...

Young scholars investigate the importance of having a healthy body by performing gymnastics.  In this physical education lesson plan, students utilize their flexibility and body strength to perform intense physical gymnastic...

Seventh graders explore physical fitness by performing Tae Bo.  In this physical education lesson plan, 7th graders practice using mixed martial arts techniques by completing a Tae Bo fitness exercise in class.  Students...

Students learn to jump rope with the purpose of learning how to become physically active. The benefit of the instructional activity is that children battle the negative effects of being sedentary for any extended period of time.

Students 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.

Students rotate through ten physical fitness stations. They perform various stretching and strengthening activities for three minutes at a time.

Students engage in p.e. activities that have roots in native Indian, Metis, and Inuit cultures. They practice the skill involved and listen to the significance behind the skill. They read relevant books and define new terminology.

The online assessment demonstrates knowledge of diet and nutrition. The questions evaluate students on nutrition and their personal fitness.

The online assessment demonstrates knowledge of exercise and fitness. The questions evaluate students on designing a personal fitness program.