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Classroom Rules
Students follow directions and adhere to the classroom rules while completing movement and equipment challenges. In this movement lesson plan, students follow the commands of the teacher and perform these movements safely.
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Dribbling and Passing
Eighth graders study soccer. In this lesson on a sport, 8th graders practice dribbling and passing skills associated with soccer.
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Jr. Chef Club Delightful Desserts
Students identify the fat content in foods. For this nutrition lesson, students review the food pyramid and identify foods that are low in fat. Students create a low-fat dessert by using fruit.
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Basketball/Tumbling
Learners play basketball games and show knowledge of offense and defense. In this basketball lesson plan, students also answer short answer questions about offense and defense.
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My Personal Improvement Plan
Pupils investigate what is necessary to design a personal improvement plan including making web using software. They research the meaning of Body Mass Index and how to measure it before accessing assigned web sites that discuss health...
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Being an Active Family
Students brainstorm ideas that will help them to be more active. In this activity lesson students select an indoor activity they can do as a family and other ways they can get moving.
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Advertising's Hidden Messages
Students explore the hidden messages in advertisements. In this business instructional activity, students discuss the role that advertisements play in our lives. Students locate advertisements that use various advertising techniques....
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A Big Issue
Young scholars examine the issue of childhood obesity. In this current events lesson plan, students explore the personal health issue as they discuss balanced diets, food diaries, and the 2012 London Olympics. Suggestions for classroom...
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Fit Kid
Learners practice and perform the song "Fit Kid" while learning the basics of motion and music and dynamics in this elementary-level lesson for the General Music classroom. The lesson emphasizes proper exercise and diet for a healthy life.
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Problem Solving
Learners use hockey sticks to pick up bean bags and put them into hoops which they get money for in the end. In this movement and math lesson plan, students get fake money and add up how much they earned in the end based on how many...
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Pyramids
Students make pyramids. In this sports and sciences lesson students work cooperatively with their group members to build human pyramids. The focus is on safety and working together regardless of personal differences.
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Ghostbusters
Students are giving one scooter to participate in the tag game. As a class, they create their own obstacle course in which they try to avoid the taggers in the haunted setting. To end the lesson, they discover why physical activity is...
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Bean Bag Clean-up
Students perform activities to practice locomotor skills. When music begins, students pick up a bean bag and bring it to the corner corresponding to the color of the bean bag. They perform a specified locomotor skill.
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Skipping
Students investigate skipping and sliding. In this movement lesson, students practice skipping and sliding while holding colored chalk marking the wall mixing the colors to make different colors.
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Body Math
Students solve simple math computations while practice their throwing skills. They explore how to subtract, add,divide,and multiply, while playing a fun fitness oriented game.
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Team Handball
Young scholars play a team sport. In this handball lesson plan, students learn the strategies for goal keeping and shooting. Young scholars play practice games.
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Team Handball
Students learn to play a team sport. In this handball instructional activity, students review passing the ball and practice a crossing drill while defenders try to steal the ball. Students review what they have learned.
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Thanksgiving
Learners work together to find and spell Thanksgiving. On a obstacle course, they follow the cones to search for the letters. If they acquire an incorrect letter, they are required to do either push-ups or sit-ups. To end the lesson,...
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Team Handball
Learners play a team sport. In this team handball lesson, students review the rules of the court and how to pass the ball. Learners practice two types of passing and play a game of handball.
Amateur Athletic Foundation
Olympic Lingo
Instead of bingo, why not play some Lingo? This vocabulary game is just like bingo, but it's all about words and focuses on building vocabulary. The resource provides a blank Lingo card, a filled-in sample, and a vocabulary list. All of...
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Floor Hockey
Students practice key aspects of floor hockey: passing, playing cooperatively, moving the ball or puck with both sides of the stick and shooting. They practice drills and play a game without a goalie.
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Look at It from the Right Angle
Young scholars investigate how geometry can be used in the field of fitness and physical performance. They view a video that demonstrates how doctors and therapists mention geometry as they treat sports-related injuries.
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Photography and Composition
Students examine the techniques and principles of photographic composition using various scientific tools such as a camera, a digital computer scanner, and a computer.
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The Food Guide Pyramid
Students examine each level of the food pyramid and how many servings they should consume during the day. They study the important nutrients associated with each category of the food pyramid.