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Crab Soccer and the Navigator
A typical physical education crab soccer game just for the fun of it. Included are several ideas for accomodations and modifications.
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Quick and easy PE games
Young scholars praactice flexibility, endurance and training. They participate in physical education games such as hockey, "GOAL Bats" and basketball skills training.
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Personal Health Series: Fitness
Complete activities to help your class appreciate the importance of physical activity. They will answer discussion questions, read articles, and create their own physically active game in order to deepen their knowledge and appreciation...
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Health Concerns Lecture
This lesson on health concerns includes a ton of information. There is a PowerPoint presentation that walks through the entire lesson. If you want a quick introduction to these topics then run through this slide presentation quickly, but...
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Careers in Health
Middle schoolers will identify several professions in the healthcare field along with the characteristics of effective healthcare providers. They will also consider if any of the occupations covered in class are appropriate career paths....
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Children's Health on the Decline
Demonstrate the importance of children's health with this cross-curricular lesson, which includes elements from health and science as well as expository writing. Middle schoolers develop realistic and obtainable one week health and...
Advocates for Youth
How Can I Take Care of My Health?
Life is all about choices, and a healthy life tends to involve a lot of healthy choices. Guide teenagers toward a life full of nutritious food, regular exercise, and responsible decisions with a series of lessons on healthy habits for...
Calculated Industries
Army Survival
Intended as a reference tool for US Army personnel, this application can be used in a classroom that is studying historic and current wars or as part of an outdoor education or wilderness survival course. Some of the subjects addressed...
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Skill Related Fitness
Six different types of fitness skills are studied in this physical education lesson. Pupils learn about agility, balance, coordination, reaction time, speed, and power. Additionally, a good fitness workout plan is outlined: setting a...
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Tag: Everyone is it!
Students play a game of tag in which every student is "it." In this physical education instructional activity, students participate in a game of tag in which they are all "it." Students perform jumping jacks after they are tagged.
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Workshop: Health Challenge
High schoolers conduct Internet research in order to better understand the concepts of sustainable health design. For this design and architecture lesson, students gather data and creat a materials kit that responds to the challenges of...
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Hopi Running
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...
Hastings Prince Edward Public Health
My Life—My Reproductive Health
Keep learners informed about their options and rights when it comes to their sexuality. An in-depth lesson plan guides teenagers through a discussion on sexually transmitted diseases, teen pregnancy, and emotional consequences to having...
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Dribbling a Ball With a Hand
Students identify physical education by participating in a sports activity. In this dribbling lesson, students discuss how basketball players move the ball without holding it and define the action as dribbling. Students participate in a...
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Let's Get Physical
Explore the benefits of physical activity and how it will affect your students' health. Students track their physical activities for one week and then compare their results. Collaboration with a math teacher woould be useful as it would...
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Healthy Heart Night
The idea of having a Healthy Heart Night at your school is a fabulous thought. Here are a few ideas that detail was done at one elementary school. It would take a lot of organizing to make it happen, but seems well worth the effort. This...
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Wellness and the Benefits of Exercise
Second graders discuss benefits of keeping physically fit, predict effects of exercise on their bodies, perform various exercises correctly, including push-up, curl-up, and jumping jack, discuss and follow safety practices while...
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Exercise and Water
Second graders discover the needs of their body by trying different types of aerobic exercise. In this physical education lesson plan, 2nd graders analyze The Busy Body Book by glancing at the pictures inside and predicting what the...
Tennessee Pediatric Society Foundation
Commit to be Fit
Staying physically fit takes time, energy, and commitment...but it can also be a lot of fun! This list includes 11 simple ways to stay motivated to exercise and will help your young athletes commit to a life of fitness and healthy living...
Texas Heart Institute
Exercise: What Kinds of Activities Are Best?
What happens in the muscles during anaerobic and aerobic exercise, and how does this affect the heart and our overall health? A cross-curricular instructional activity that introduces learners to the lifelong benefits of exercise,...
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Black Tiger Academy Martial Arts Fitness Unit – Lesson 13
"You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself."—Jim Whittaker. Black Tiger Academy’s martial arts lesson 13 of 20 takes the health lesson about sugars to the next level by talking about diabetes. The percent of...
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Black Tiger Academy Martial Arts Fitness Unit – Lesson 10
“To succeed, we must first believe that we can.”—Michael Korda. Black Tiger Academy’s martial arts lesson 10 of 20 continues discussing nutrition focusing on serving size. Americans overeat which leads to many health problems....
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Black Tiger Academy Martial Arts Fitness Unit - Lesson 16
“The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse.”—Author Unknown. Black Tiger Academy’s martial arts lesson 16 of 20 begins talking about calories. The class takes a look at menus from Burger...
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Black Tiger Academy Martial Arts Fitness Unit – Lesson 9
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”—Nelson Mandela. Black Tiger Academy’s martial arts lesson nine of 20 introduces food labels to the class. What are food labels? What do they mean? How can...