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Fit For Life

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in a daily school-wide fitness program which takes place every morning following morning announcements. They complete a warm-up, a cardiovascular workout, a strength and endurance workout and finally, a cool down.
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Healthy Heart

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars explore how the heart works, examine pictures of a troubled heart, and discuss how to keep the heart healthy.
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PhysioEx: Cardiovascular Dynamics

For Teachers Pre-K - Higher Ed
For this anatomy worksheet, students complete 10 fill in the blank questions about an online physiology of circulation virtual experiment.
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Hardy Heart: Kit Instructions

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students describe human anatomy by reading a children's book. For this heart health lesson, students examine illustrations of heart images and several organ related children's stories. Students discuss ways to keep a healthy heart and...
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Cardiovascular Homeostasis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers develop and conduct an experiment to answer the question," How does cardiovascular exercise affect the pulse rate?". They record the changes to heart rate during different levels of exercise.
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Interactive Heart Rate Worksheet

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students perform various cardiovascular activities, then complete a worksheet that records their target heart rate.
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Writing Prompt: Heart Health

For Students 8th - 9th
In this writing worksheet, students read a writing prompt about heart health. They create a list of ten activities to keep their heart healthy.
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Jump Band Hokey Pokey

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Add a new dimension to doing the Hokey Pokey by giving each group of four dancers a set of jump bands. There are dance moves for the two dancers holding the jump bands as well as for the dancers doing the Hokey Pokey. The goal is to...
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Gustavus Adolphus University

Five Physical Fitness Components

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Five learning stations for five physical fitness components: cardiovascular exercise, body composition, muscle endurance, muscular strength, and flexibility. As pupils progress through each station, they will complete assigned tasks,...
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PBS

Heart to Heart

For Students 3rd - 7th
Study heart health and math in one activity. After measuring their resting heart rates by finding the pulse in their wrists, learners build a stethoscope to listen to their heart rate, and note the differences between the two methods.
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American Physiological Society

It’s the Heart of the Matter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Get the class jumping for joy with a fascinating look at matters of the heart. Learners perform physical tasks, collect and analyze heart rate data, and study conditions that affect heart health. Use the action-packed lesson plan to...
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Keeping Your Heart in Good Shape: What are the Benefits? - Biology Teaching Thesis

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners name the main parts of the heart and what events occur there. They write a reaction that contains complete sentences, and uses proper spelling and grammar, after viewing a video. Students define the following terms: contraction,...
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What is Physical Fitness?

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore and discuss what physical fitness actually is, its benefits and how to obtain it through a variety of ways. They summarize the five parts of physical fitness: cardiovascular endurance,muscular strength, muscular...
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Death by Particles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Emerging epidemiologists define relative risk and read an article about the effect of particulate pollution on the cardiovascular health of women. They record the relative risk values, graph them, and answer analysis questions. This is a...
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Worksheet
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Activity Log- Heart Power

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this health and fitness worksheet, students keep a detailed log on this blank chart. Students record all their fitness activities for a week and indicate if they are aerobic or anaerobic.
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The Benthic Drugstore

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine active chemicals that are in marine invertebrates and how they act to fight diseases.  In this marine lesson plan students identify three pharmacologically-active chemicals, describe their disease fighting action and...
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The Benthic Drugstore

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify at least three pharmacologically- active chemicals derived from marine invertebrates. They describe the disease-fighting action of at least three pharmacologically-active chemicals derived from marine invertebrates.
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Know your Heart Parts and Functions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students put together a 3-D interactive "heart" puzzle and learn the names of heart parts.
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Observing Atherosclerosis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers develop a model to visually observe the change in blood flow rates between healthy and unhealthy arteries. They calculate data that they have collected and graph their results. They determine the relationships the flow...
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Take A Heart Hike

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the functions of different body systems. They conduct research about the major body systems to attain information. The teacher prepares the room for the lesson. Students walk and talk through each major system as...
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What Are My Daily Calorie Needs?

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore what their personal nutritional requirements are.  In this exploratory lesson students calculate their total daily energy needs and energy outputs and study how age is related to changing this. 
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Human Anatomy and Physiology

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students study human anatomy and physiology.
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Cardio-Vascular Endurance

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Young scholars in a special education class work to improve their endurance. As a class, they complete the same exercises at the beginning of each class trying to increase the number of reps. They are also introduced to healthy eating...
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Cholesterol Awareness

For Students 9th - 12th
In this health worksheet, students find the words that are related to cholesterol and treatments for it. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.

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