Classroom Resources

This is a free YouTube video from Phys.Ed.Review.  The video offers students a choice of three different fitness activities to perform for thirty seconds.  Students then take a short rest and choose between three more fitness activities. This cycle continues for five minutes to upbeat music.

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This is a cardio drumming routine choreographed to the song "When Will I See You Again" by Owl City. This resource can be used with students as they watch (using a digital projector or teacher-led) and duplicate the choreographed dance steps.

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This strength training resource provides a week-long lesson plan that includes using free weights and cardiovascular components. The lesson plan includes daily assessments and evaluation for each student.  

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This classroom resource is lesson plan containing a link to an animated interactive with videos, question sets, and text about bullying.  The resource is the basic introduction to what is bullying, who is bullied, why do kids bully, what can they do and what should they do. This resource will also allow them to take a pledge to be a kid against bullying.

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In this self-paced literacy lesson, students watch documentary videos about bullying and read informational text about how bullying may affect the function of a democratic society. Students develop their literacy skills as they explore the role of personal freedom, particularly freedom of speech, and how bullying limits such personal freedom.

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This learning activity resource is the blog site from a commercial equipment website; however, this is a free resource. This learning activity utilizes cooperation and teamwork. Variations are included with multiple pictures and videos.

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In this blended lesson supporting literacy skills, students watch videos and complete interactive activities to learn how to use fractions to interpret food labels and make healthy eating choices. Students develop their literacy skills as they explore a mathematics focus on proportional reasoning. During this process, they read informational text, learn and practice vocabulary words, and explore content through videos and interactive activities

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This learning activity focuses on the previously taught volleyball skills of setting, forearm pass, and overhand/underhand serving. Students will break off into partners around the gym. Place playing cards face down on the floor in places that are easily accessed by students on either side of the net but are out of the playing area. On the teacher's signal, the activity begins. The partner without the ball will go draw a playing card and bring it back to their partner. Each type of card stands for an activity: Spades - underhand/overhand serve, Clubs - overhead set, Diamonds - forearm pass, Hearts - any exercise (jumping jacks, push-ups, etc.). After a designated amount of time, rotate partners.

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Want to get in shape? Don’t let out-dated advice hold you back. Too many teens (and adults) still believe hand-me-down advice that’s been repeated over and over but never proved by science. In this article, two fitness pros help you separate exercise fact from fiction.

ReadWorks requires teachers to set-up a free account to access and print their passages. 

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Don’t let the cold prevent you from staying fit. Instead, take advantage of all that winter offers. This article offers tips on how to stay active and healthy during the cold, dreary winter months.

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The athlete in the gym will demonstrate the proper way to execute a squat and also discuss the incorrect way. The video also has subtitles for students to read if needed. Safety issues are discussed by controlling the weight at all times.

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Learn about working in sports therapy from Anita O’Brian, a therapeutic recreation specialist. She manages SportsNet at Rochester Rehabilitation in Rochester, New York. She explains how she enables people to participate in a wide variety of therapeutic recreation activities.

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Learn about Healthy Highway, a program to help people make healthy choices about nutrition. It uses simple graphics and concepts to explain options, such as traffic signs to explain how to make good nutrition choices.

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You've probably wondered how you developed diabetes. You may worry that your children will develop it too. Unlike some traits, diabetes does not seem to be inherited in a simple pattern. Yet, clearly, some people are born more likely to develop diabetes than others. The text explains what leads to diabetes and explains risk factors.

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This activity will help your students develop an appreciation for the importance of physical fitness — and get their bodies moving in the process! Students will design a game, including at least two motor skills, rules, and strategies and identify the health benefits of physical activity.

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In Frog Pond, students are practicing their jumping, leaping, and hopping skills by moving from one lily pad (poly spot) to another to get to the frog food (beanbags, yarn balls, etc. that are in the hula hoops in the middle of the playing area). This learning activity is used to reinforce the fundamental motor skills of jumping, hopping and leaping.

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In this video, students have fun in fitness as they follow along with their teacher to perform various exercises and stretches found in the different seasons. Doing activities like playing baseball and cross-country skiing, students learn about the varying seasons and a variety of seasonal physical activities. This lesson focuses primarily on psychomotor skills.

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Smoking may be at near-record lows, but vaping remains popular. Vaping is the act of inhaling and exhaling the vapor produced by an e-cigarette or similar device. The term is used because e-cigarettes do not produce tobacco smoke, and instead produce a vapor that consists of fine particles. So, why is vaping so popular and is it a healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes?

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This interactive game guides students through activities and descriptions of the five fitness components in a breakout game format. 

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This is a dribbling activity that focuses on students dribbling with their head up. Dribbling without looking at the ball shows mastery of the skill because students are in control of the ball. Also when students dribble with their head up, they have full court vision and can easily see open space or other players to pass to. Players who can dribble with their head up can also see where they are going and avoid defenders. 

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This learning activity from Wonderopolis combines interactive resources to answer these questions:

• What is BMI?
• What does BMI mean for my health?
• What are some ways I can stay healthy?

A combination of interactive text, audio, video, vocabulary, checks for understanding, and extension activities explain the big ideas of BMI. This resource provides an easy to understand explanation supporting the importance of making responsible personal health decisions. 

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This learning activity from Wonderopolis combines interactive resources to answer these questions:

• What's your favorite way to exercise? 
• Why is exercise important?
• How often should children exercise?

A combination of interactive text, audio, video, vocabulary, checks for understanding, and extension activities explain the big ideas of healthy choices. This resource provides an easy to understand explanation supporting the importance of choosing to participate in regular exercise. 

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This resource provides an interactive guide to engage, explore, apply, and reflect on heart rate. Resting and target heart rate activities are included in addition to guiding application questions for each. 

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Not every basketball player has been blessed with great talent, but every player regardless of ability can be a great teammate. Here are 12 qualities of a great teammate. Do these qualities describe you or your young player? This article has great points to share with young students.

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This informational material provides information about relaxation and stress management. The article also includes a video with tips to relieve stress from your daily struggles.

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In this activity, teachers will induce mild stress in students by announcing they are about to have a pop quiz that will be a major part of their grade. Once students learn that this is not true, they will describe their physical and mental changes in response to this stress.

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The purpose of this activity is to put students in the frame of mind for developing short- and long-term physical activity plans with the objective of providing a sense of competence and positive self-image, as well as setting life-long patterns of physical activity. In particular, students are to use standard graphing techniques to indicate changes over time, as well as using visual depictions of data collected and subsequently analyzed. By emphasizing effort over actual performance, students will be motivated to engage in physical activity for more personal, intrinsic reasons rather than for extrinsic, performance-based reasons.

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Most kids (and most adults) understand the need to make healthy food choices, get enough sleep, or participate in physical activity regularly. But people do not always base their actions on what they know. One of the challenges of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is to help people translate health information into action.

In this activity, students review the components of the Energy Equation: Food + Sleep + Physical Activity = Energy. They think about the barriers to and benefits of acting on each component of the equation. Finally, students develop a plan for putting their health knowledge into practice.

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This activity is designed to open students' eyes to the consequences of binge drinking and bad choices. A secondary purpose is to have students use critical thinking skills to try to determine if the information given to them is credible.

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Elementary-aged students learn to take responsibility for their own hygiene and self-care behaviors. Images of astronauts and space travel are ideal to engage the young learner in personal health content. This teaching technique is compatible with the National Health Education Standards One and Three. There are three lesson objectives. Students will: 1) Understand that germs spread infections, illness, and disease; 2) Identify practices that promote health and prevent disease; 3) Demonstrate good personal health habits including hand washing before eating and brushing teeth.

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This activity will examine why bullies bully others, to try to build students' self-esteem, and to know what to do if they are being bullied. In addition, this activity will help students find positive ways to deal with their feelings if they are being bullied.

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This activity will educate students on the definition of cyberbullying, give students statistics about cyberbullying, give students examples of cyberbullying, give students Cyber Safe tips, and empower students to sign the Commitment to Stopping Cyber Bullying contract.

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The goal of this article is to make athletes and coaches aware of each of the six essential components of a successful training program and highlight the areas within each that should be addressed and mastered over time. Many of these components will overlap and supplement each other and are not exclusive or solely independent. You will notice that nutrition is not listed as one of the components, as this is in a category all its own.

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In this 3rd- through 5th-grade video, students have fun in fitness as they follow along with their teacher as she walks them through a variety of exercises and stretches targeting the whole body. Using their psychomotor and cognitive skills, students get good exercise and a stretch.

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This activity will help physical education teachers teach health education while keeping the students moving. It reinforces animal movements, works on muscular strength and endurance, and teaches nutrition.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.