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Special Olympics

Train at School

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Keep your mind and body fit with a fun activity about the five food groups. After going over the functions of fruit, vegetables, grains, meats and beans, and dairy, as well as oils and fats, learners participate in a bean bag toss to...
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Phys Ed Games

The Number Game

For Students K - 6th
With the entire class spread around the playing area, set a timer and have kids run, skip, hop, or jump around the area. When the timer stops, yell out a number. The students must form a group of that number, and whomever doesn't have a...
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Ohio Resource Center

Clouds

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Get your little readers moving with a fun lesson about Eric Carle's Little Cloud. After reading the book together, they engage in a series of locomotor and manipulative activities to illustrate how different elements of the story would...
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Line Math

For Students 1st - 8th
Call out an equation and have team members walk, run, or jog to the answer in a line. Then, the next player in line goes. This non-competitive game is good for reinforcing math skills that have answers under 10.
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Baylor College

Lungometer

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Life science learners construct lung-o-meters from gallon-sized milk jugs and then measure their lung capacities. For older students, have them graph the vital lung capacities of each person in the class. Cross-curricular pieces are...
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Fitness Stars

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students participate in an at-home physical fitness program. They draw "fitness slips" and complete the activity on the slip at home. The activities include fun sports-like activities, but also household chore activities like vacuuming...
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Curated OER

Fitness

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars create a plan for lifelong health by setting personal health goals.
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Fun Through Fitness Day

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students engage in an entire morning of physical fitness activities called Field Day. Events such as dashes, water relays, hoop pass and obstacle course are some of the ideas.
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Curated OER

Fitness Lab

For Teachers K - 5th
Students complete several physical fitness stations. Students identify which activities increased their heart rates from a resting level. Stations include jumping jacks, sit-ups, running in place, stretching, and body fat measurements.
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Happy Feet=Healthy Body

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss the benefits of regular exercise.  In this physical health studies lesson, 4th graders create visual demonstrations to track their progress with physical fitness related goals.  Students discuss various types of...
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Knock Down

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students participate in team building activity. In this physical education lesson, students are divided into two teams. One team is assigned to knock down the bowling pins and the other team is assigned the job of picking them back up....
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Curated OER

Scrabble Laps

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice spelling. In this scrabble laps lesson, students divide into teams and complete laps around a track to earn letters.  Students use letters earned to form as many words as they can using random letters given for...
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Curated OER

Excuses, Excuses - Stay Physically Fit

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students explore reasons to stay physically fit. They participate in activities that address excuses people use for not being active. Students discuss benefits of exercise. Students write personal goals for physical fitness and share...
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Bucket Brigade

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a physical fitness activity about water. In this water conservation lesson plan, students discuss how to conserve water and the amount of water most people use in a day. To illustrate this amount students move 70...
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Eat-And-Move-O-Matic

For Students 6th - 12th
Slot-machine-style scrolling columns display Eat choices (a food item, snack, or a full meal) and Move choices (various popular physical activities). Make a food selection and find out how much time you will need to spend participating...
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Curated OER

The Twelve Ways to Fitness

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work on their cardiovascular and muscular endurance by exercising to the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
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Hip-Hop Warm Up Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students in a middle elementary physical education class participate in a warm-up activity in which they perform several hip-hop dance moves. They do the mountain climber, the coffee grinder, the seat spin, and others. They even come...
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Frog Olympics

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the attributes of amphibians. In this physical frog biology lesson plan, students discover facts about the muscles of frogs and then play 2 games that require them to move like frogs.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Ergonomic Issues

For Students 6th - 8th
For this health worksheet, students find the vocabulary that teaches them how to use proper ergonomics and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Curated OER

Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan- Math

For Teachers K - 1st
Students perform locomotor movement.  In this locomotor skills lesson, students practice running, hopping, skipping, and walking then form themselves into groups based on a number called out.  Students identify if more or less students...
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Poster Fitness

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders conduct internet research to gather information about physical fitness, and create individual posters to describe what personal fitness means to them. Student include both clipart and hand drawings to create collages.
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Bean Bag Challenges

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students enhance their knowledge of physical fitness skills as well as related terminology. They explore many challenges using beanbags. Locomotive skills as well as manipulatives and non-manipulatives are involved.
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Nutrition and Health

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the conditions faced while sailing on the ocean regarding health and physical fitness. They experience the importance of Vitamin C. Students analyze the cause of many diseases and sicknesses on the ships.
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Christmas Fitness Adventure

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students complete a fitness challenge over the holiday break. In this physical fitness lesson, students receive a worksheet to track their physical activity while they are away from school.

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