PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Twelve Days of Winter Break
At this website, find exercises for each of the "Twelve days of winter break." Stay fit during the holidays and work these simple exercises into your daily routine.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Physical Activity and Health at a Glance
This website provides notes on exercise, its health benefits, and its role in helping all people feel healthier and stronger. Learn about different types of exercises you can do to improve you health. Also, read facts about adults and...
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Livestrong.com: Definition of Aerobic Fitness
A detailed definition of the word "aerobic" and how it can be applied to healthy living.
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Recreation & Health for Children
Japanese content. The site aims to promote physical fitness for children and provides news items and information on fitness tests, how to exercise, where you to play sports, and how to promote an active and healthy lifestyle. You can...
Read Works
Read Works: Slim Gym
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how to exercise without a gym or equipment. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute: Heart Health and Care
This is a simple guide from The Franklin Institute to keeping your heart healthy through proper exercise, a varied diet, and a clean lifestyle. Here, read about how to exercise and eat to avoid heart disease.
Read Works
Read Works: Fit for Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses how to stay healthy and physically fit through diet and exercise. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading...
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Kids Health: Pilates
Many people use and support Pilates, a form of resistance training. Learn more about the background of Pilates and how you can incorporate it into your exercise rourtine. Links to similar sites are also provided.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Virtual Workshop: Food and Fitness Energy for Life
A slide presentation that gives students an appreciation for what happens when living organisms use food for energy. Actual hands-on yeast lab exercise is part of the presentation.
PE Central
Pe Central: Fitness Tests Cues: Sit Ups
Use these tips to help you do sit ups safely in gym class. Learn how to position your hands and how to work with a parter. Also, check out the link to animated demonstration. This information would best accompany an in-class...
PE Central
Pe Central: Fitness Tests Cues: Push Ups
At this website, find tips to help you properly do push ups as well as an animated demonstration. Learn how to position your feet, back, and arms and also learn how to do a "Modified," push up.
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Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Fitness/strength Conditioning
Introduce middle schoolers to strength conditioning with a trip to the weight room. After studying the muscles and their functions, students are ready to start strengthening their own muscles with the use of gym equipment and to write...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Physical Activity Introduction
Who needs physical activity? How can it help? Find out here with this introduction to physical activity from the CDC.
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The Grain Chain: Stepping Out: Pedometer Experiment [Pdf]
Use your skills of estimation, observation, and data collection to calculate the amount of energy used during your normal walking throughout the day. Use of a pedometer is suggested, but walking steps could be counted by students while...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Body and Mind: Activity Cards
Learn about sports and activities you can participate in to get in shape and have fun. Click on the name of a specific sport and read an "Activity card," with information on sports gear, safety, and more.
New York Times
New York Times: Health
[Free Registration/Login Required] The New York Times maintains daily coverage of the latest in health news, including children's health, fitness, the health care policy, and more.
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Hhs: Physical Activity Fundamental to Preventing Disease
Here, read statistics from the US Department of Health and Human Services concerning exercise and its key role in preventing chronic illness and premature death. Use these findings from medical studies in which diseases were studied in...
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Push Ups
This is a tutorial on line graphs including when, how, and why one might choose to use them and how to interpret the data when it is complete. This one is to reach a goal for the number of push ups needed to win the Presidential Fitness...
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Aerobic Frisbee Golf
The physical activity described at this website combines cardiovascular fitness exercises (frisbee, push-ups, jumping jacks) and academic subjects math and science.
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Plans: Push Up Routine
Because push-ups are part of most fitness-related tests, it is important that students practice push-ups and, in the process, improve upper body strength. Students able to do push-ups and able to "hold a push-up position for at least 30...
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic:target Heart Rate Calculator
Check your target heart rate for safe and effective exercise according to your age and health status in this interactive heart rate calculator
Curated OER
Kids Health: Female Athlete Triad
The female athlete triad is composed of three disorders that all stem from a woman's obsession with how she looks. Conditions in this triad result in weakness and damage to one's body. This condition is outlined in a detailed manner in...
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Pilates Studio: What Is the Pilates Method?
This site provides a brief description of the Pilates method of body conditioning and also describes a short history of the method. Use the toolbar on the right to find out more about the benefits of Pilates conditioning, Joseph Pilates,...
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Kid Sense: Strength and Endurance
Strength and endurance are important to enable children to perform every day functions such as fine motor skills, gross motor skills, playground skills, and sporting skills. This article explains how to tell if your child has problems...
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