Curated OER
Dancing Levels in Space
Students practice mirroring human moves by performing a dance in class. In this physical education lesson, students utilize different spaces around them to perform a dance expressing their full motion. Students cooperate in...
Curated OER
Moving Around
Convey the structure and function of muscles to your class with this PowerPoint. It explains how muscles are composed of bundles of cells and fibers, that there are three muscle types, and that contraction is either voluntary or...
Curated OER
Drawing Movement
Students analyze visual arts by creating drawings in their classroom. In this art analysis lesson plan, students identify the paintings of Keith Haring by researching the web. Students utilize paper and oil pastels to create...
Curated OER
Swimming Pool Mural
Students research art analysis by creating a mural in their class. In this artistic expression lesson plan, students research the work of Keith Haring and discuss his personal style and how it reflected body movement. Students...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Healthy Me: How Do You Move?
Look at all the ways a human body can move. Book includes audio narration in 8 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Healthy Me: Move!
Look at all the ways young children move their bodies when they are playing. Book has one word per page. Includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Changing Places
This is a mini-unit that helps students explore immigration through many different resources. Students will learn about Chinese immigrants, and then investigate their own cultural heritages.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Levers: How the Human Body Uses Them to Its Advantage
Students will apply the concept of levers to the human body and build all three classes of levers within a musculoskeletal context. They will be shown how the musculoskeletal system is a system of levers and one example of each type of...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Bikini Atoll: Human Development (Baby to Old Person)
Students will learn about some characteristics of different age groups, including mobility and what they eat.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Picturing America: Eakins: John Biglin in a Single Scull [Pdf]
Analysis of an Eakins work in watercolor on one of the artist's favorite themes: athletes in motion.
Other
Human Kinetics
Excellent resource for high schoolers on sports biomechanics and sports medicine.