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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dancing Levels in Space

For Teachers K - 5th
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...
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PPT
Curated OER

Moving Around

For Teachers 5th - 7th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Drawing Movement

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
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...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Swimming Pool Mural

For Teachers 8th - 12th
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...
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eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Healthy Me: How Do You Move?

For Students K - 1st
Look at all the ways a human body can move. Book includes audio narration in 8 additional languages with text in English.
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eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Healthy Me: Move!

For Students Pre-K - K
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.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Changing Places

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Levers: How the Human Body Uses Them to Its Advantage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Bikini Atoll: Human Development (Baby to Old Person)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Students will learn about some characteristics of different age groups, including mobility and what they eat.
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Activity
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Picturing America: Eakins: John Biglin in a Single Scull [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Analysis of an Eakins work in watercolor on one of the artist's favorite themes: athletes in motion.
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Website
Other

Human Kinetics

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for high schoolers on sports biomechanics and sports medicine.