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Hopi Running

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify why the Hopi tribe practiced running as it relates to health, delivering messages, defeating other tribes, and for ceremonial events. For this social studies lesson, students use maps to identify latitude and longitude...
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How Cultures Differ - Two Different Perspectives on the Same Even

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the effects of culture through the story Running by Peter Hessler. In this geography and cultural lesson, students act as newspaper reporters covering the story of the race. Students write newspaper articles as reporters...
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Confronting Two Challenges--One Physical, One Intellectual

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the challenges of a new language and culture. In this cultural lesson, student read Running by Peter Hessler and discuss obstacles faced, including the language barrier. Students write an essay about a time they...
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Gold Medal Attitudes Running Club

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The Gold Medal Attitudes Running Club was created to promote healthy living for your elementary school pupils. Use a pedometer and a computer program to keep track of progress. A few other suggestions are available, but it's really up to...
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Chalkboard Relay-PE Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In the lesson, Chalkboard Relay-PE Lesson, students benefit from physical and mental activities. Students will compete in teams using running and addition problems as the determinant factors of which team wins. Moreover, students will...
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Running

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners participate in team activities and drills to practice running types and techniques such as high knee, skip running, back kick, big stride, etc... They participate in a 50 meter dash, relay race, and agility race.
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Partner Mile Run/Heart Rate Calculation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students improve fitness, calculating target heart rates, and prepare for the mile run physical fitness test.
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Straights and Curves

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students improve aerobic fitness through running and walking.
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Number Dribble

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students dribble and catch a ball. In this number dribble lesson students are given numbers and math equations that require them to dribble or throw the ball a specific number of times. The students practice dribbling independently and...
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Small Space Big Track

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars jog for exercise in a gym. In this jogging lesson, students follow a pattern in the gym to practice running in a small space while pacing themselves.
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Full Game of Speedball

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students run lap around the field. They complete dynamic stretching: high knees, high knee kicks, forward lunges, 45 degree, side lunges, and high knee crossover. Students review the scoring and rules of the game speedball. They are...
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Scream Run

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders are introduced to the rules and procedures of the game Scream Run. Individually, they scream at the top of their lungs and run when given the signal by their teacher. To end the lesson plan, they try to sing a song while...
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Running/Wiffle Ball

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Students explain the basic rules for wiffle ball. In this physical education lesson, students record the steps they took during their 4 mile run. Additionally, students participate in a game of wiffle ball. 
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Heart of a Runner Word Search Puzzle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this health worksheet, middle schoolers look for the words that are related to the theme of the worksheet. They also work on the skills of spelling and word recognition.
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10-20-30 Second Club

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in running exercises to accumulate points for their running team. They earn ten, twenty, or thirty points for improving their running time, then line up with their team to add up their team's total running fitness...
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Pennsylvania Walkers Club

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in an school-wide walking club. Students choose a destination in Pennsylvania they would like to visit. After plotting the best way to get their using a map, the walk each day and record their distance in miles on...
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White Bear Lake Fitness Challenge

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in fitness challenge. After choosing a destination they would like to visit, students record their mileage to their destination after riding on bikes and walking on treadmills. Students receive an incentive...
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Mini Track Meet

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers, in groups, practice all of the physical activities they have learned into a track meet. They run relays and each member of the team is to participate.
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Holiday Gift Exchange

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in a running or ball dribbling activity, delivering a bean bag across a certain distance to their partner. They deliver as many bean bags to their partner in a two minute time period.
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Sneaker Slap

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils develop agility while moving from the "ready position." students change directions efficiently in a game-like situation.
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Triangle Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils practice their chasing, fleeing, and dodging skills in small groups.
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Olympic Sprint Training

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars work with a partner and observe and analyze their partner's form while running. They make recommendations from a list of eight cues to help improve both running speed and technique.
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Discovery Pacing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discover strategies for pacing themselves when running longer distances on a quarter mile track.
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Ridgerunner

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students jog for three minutes at the beginning of the class, increasing one minute per week for ten weeks. They count each lap as one mile on the Appalachian Trail, computing the class average and plotting their progress on a class map.