Utah Education Network
Uen: Number Push Ups
In this lesson, students will move to number cards and perform the associated number of push-ups with proper form. Teachers can mix up the numbers or require different mathematical operations prior to performing the push-ups.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Burning Calories
Second graders will investigate calorie usage in this activity. Students will make predictions, wear a pedometer, walk and record steps, and understand how high calorie foods require more calorie-burning effort.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Health Lesson Plans
Great lesson plans covering a wide-range of health-related subjects. Focusing on all grades, teach students bike safety, first aid, a map of their mouths, and stress management. A wonderful resource for wonderful teachers!
Other
Alliance for a Healthier Generation
This resource is a website targeting teens who want to live a healthy lifestyle. Tips about good nutrition, ways to improve food offerings at school, and stories about teens who have made a difference. Free registration is required for...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Yoga
Reference tool for learning about yoga. Find out what you'll need to wear, what gear you'll need, how to do yoga, what the different yoga types and positions are, and why it is a great exercise for the mind.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Fishing
Reel into the excitement and benefits to fishing.
Other
Fitness Partner: Activity Calorie Calculator
Let this exercise calculator figure the number of calories you burn while doing over 222 different physical activities.
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Geographical Distance Skating
This is a fun gym-class activity that requires middle schoolers to apply simple geography, mathematics, and writing skills. As a class, students skate (or run or walk or bike) around the gym in hopes of gaining mileage. Lesson idea...
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: Adjectives and Adverbs
This is a basic explanation of adjectives & adverbs, with examples of each. This resource explains how to change adjectives into adverbs through interactive exercises (with hints and answers).
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: "It" and "There"
Brief interactive exercise on proper usage of "there is," "it is," "is there," "is it," "there was," "it was," "was it," etc. Twelve questions, the student types in the blank & can then check the answer or get a hint.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Dragonfly Tv: The Show: Exercise and Memory
Can exercise really help our brain work better? This PBS site discovers if this is really true by taking you into the worlds of Jada and Maurna to find out.
Curated OER
Kids Health: T'ai Chi
T'ai Chi is a form of martial arts that has benefits beyond self-defense. Check out this article to see how T'ai Chi can improve your flexibility and strength. Links to related sites are also included.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Pilates
Many people use and support Pilates, a form of resistance training. Learn more about the background of Pilates and how you can incorporate it into your exercise rourtine. Links to similar sites are also provided.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Kickboxing
This resource provides information about kickboxing, teen health, and exercise.
Curated OER
Kids Health: What's the Right Weight for Me?
It is easy to compare yourself with the celebrities and models you see every day on TV and in magazines. These pictures sometimes help shape our body image and we begin to think that we should look like these people. The truth is that...
Other
Vocabulary Training Exercises
This site contains multiple vocabulary tests of 100 words each that drill word sets from animals to words of the soul. It also contains grammar quizzes and a personalized test generator.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sci Girls: Heart to Heart
For this activity, learners compare ways to measure their heart rates. They will build their own stethoscopes and learn how exercise affects heart rate.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 11.34 Respiratory System Health
Learn how we can keep our respiratory system healthy.
McGraw Hill
Oregon State University: How Exercise Builds Bones
Here, at this site from the Oregon State University's Organic Chemistry Online Learning Center, are some discussion topics on diseases and disorders, like osteoporosis that affect bones. Here, you can read the information on how to avoid...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Count and Non Count Nouns
Learn about count nouns--things you can count--and how they are used as parts of speech.
University College London
University College London: Adjectives and Nouns
Tutorial site that surveys the proper usage of adjectives and nouns that act like adjectives. Includes examples and an exercise.
InterLink Language Centers
Interlink Language Centers: Noun Identification Quiz
Simple 10-question interactive quiz on noun identification.
Better English Lessons
Better English: Adverbs and Adjectives Quiz
Choose the right word using an adjective or adverb from a provided drop down list. Check your answers by clicking on the box at the bottom of the page.