Health Related Fitness Portfolio

Little athletes put their minds and bodies to work to invent new fitness games for class! Using information they gather from informational texts, youngsters design games that include motor skills, materials, rules, and strategies for...

Complete activities to help your class appreciate the importance of physical activity. They will answer discussion questions, read articles, and create their own physically active game in order to deepen their knowledge and appreciation...

Students complete movements and discuss how fitness is beneficial to their health. In this fitness lesson plan, students also discuss being safe while moving and take a quiz.

Sixth graders investigate the food guide pyramid. They conduct Internet research, and plan a three day nutritional menu appropriate for teenagers. Students include three meals per day and a snack for each day on their menu, and...

Help students discover the importance of physical fitness with this health literacy video. Beginning with a comparison of the choices made by two fictional teenagers, this resource continues on to explore the basic physical and thinking...

Emphasize the five fitness components to your class, in order to teach them how to live a healthy lifestyle:  strength, endurance, flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, and body composition. Your class can create their own web chart...

Have your fourth graders jump rope to be heart healthy. This lesson has learners engage in a variety of jump roping activities to practice healthy habits. They also discuss cardiovascular fitness and the benefits of good health.

Young scholars 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...

Students participate in the Presidential Physical Fitness Test. In this personal fitness instructional activity, students warm up and complete the required push-ups, sit-ups, running, and stretching exercises.

The Learning Network is featuring an article about First Lady Michelle Obama and her quest to help reduce childhood obesity in America. The article talks about how she has talked with the top three suppliers of school lunches and has...