This is an alternative way for students to practice the accuracy of their tennis strokes. The purpose is to hit the ball away from your opponents but within the lines.
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The purpose of this activity is to promote physical fitness and exercise beyond the physical education classroom. For one week, each student must keep a log of his/her daily physical activity.
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Toxic Waste is a standards-based cooperation game that focuses on teamwork, synchronization, and communication. It can be played in a gym or outdoors. The goal of the game is the get the Toxic Waste (a foam ball) from one end of the gym to the other, without touching the ball of the Ringette ring (students must, therefore, use skipping ropes).
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This video shares five different lead-up activities and games for teaching tennis. The activities shown in the video are creative and will provide the students with activities to assist them in succeeding in the game of tennis.
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Danish Longball is a game similar to American baseball, only with 2 bases instead of 4. Instructions for the game are included in the resource. This game provides so many opportunities for modifications and builds that you can really explore a great variety of skills and tactics, regardless of your students’ current learning levels.
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By performing this activity, students will practice throwing for accuracy as well as distance.
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In this lesson, students will work on deceiving their opponents, defending their territories, and maintaining a rally. This idea can be modified for use in a variety of sports, including badminton, tennis, volleyball, etc.
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This video segment adapted from Rx for Survival examines malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, a disease that kills more than one million children there each year. It explains how a deadly parasite, a member of the genus Plasmodium, enters the bloodstream via a mosquito bite and how it multiplies once inside host red blood cells. The video reveals that drug counterfeiting has increased malaria's death toll and that newer drugs, while more effective than older ones, are too expensive for most Africans to acquire. The video also highlights one simple and low-cost solution—bed nets—that can be used to combat disease transmission.
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This video segment from A Science Odyssey recounts the tactics employed by San Francisco's health officials to prevent the bubonic plague from reaching America's West Coast. Using physical examinations, quarantines, and deportation, city officials hoped to isolate disease-carrying immigrants from the general population. They also disinfected people and fumigated properties where disease-carrying rodents were thought to exist. Following the 1906 earthquake, medical research began to consider rats, rather than humans, as the vector responsible for transmitting the disease. Scientists in India discovered that, in fact, it was the fleas carried by rats that were ultimately responsible for transmitting bubonic plague from diseased rats to humans.
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This activity is designed for students to understand the importance of a healthy, active lifestyle. Worksheets that link to PowerPoints for students to complete and make notes are attached. Also attached is a homework sheet that can be used for the section which will test the students' knowledge and understanding of healthy active lifestyles.
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This is a learning activity for varsity athletes. Picture and teaching points for track skills in athletics are attached. Cards are attached with proper skill progression listed on each one for track skills.
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This is one example of a technique for learning how to officiate the long jump. Teachers may use this when teaching sports officiating. This can be modified for other sports when students are learning the rules for officiating.
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This resource is a lesson plan where students will use cards to sort and understand a large quantity of information regarding suicidal teens, then apply what they learn to analyses of case studies.
The objectives of the lesson plan are to:
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This resource is a soccer lesson plan for high school students. It includes 10 lessons for teaching soccer. The lessons are detailed and pictures are included for instruction.
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This resource is a lesson plan that teaches students to observe body movements in different activities and determine what body systems are being used. Students are introduced to correct terminology of body movements. This lesson plan incorporates STEM concepts while teaching about physical movement.
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This resource is informational material about reading Nutrition Facts Labels. The information is needed to teach students about health literacy to have a higher health status by choosing the right foods. The information breaks down the Nutrition Facts Label to better understand the different parts.
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This resource is a website that has toolkits, lesson plans, promotional materials, and other resources to help educators teach the severity of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors, such as sexual activity. The lesson plan for teaching the progressiveness of HIV can be found by scrolling midway down the page to "What is HIV?" Click on the "Read More" button and you will be directed to a lesson plan.
The objectives of the lesson plan are to:
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This TED-Ed learning activity unpacks muscle fatigue resulting from lifting weights. The first time feels easy, but each lift takes more and more effort until you can’t continue. Inside your arms, the muscles responsible for the lifting have become unable to contract. What’s going on? Christian Moro explains how exactly our muscles operate, and what causes them to become fatigued.
The activity includes a video, multiple choice and open-ended questions, additional resources to dig deeper, and a guided discussion.
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It's not hard to find drugs and sometimes it may seem like everyone's doing them — or wanting you to do them. But as with anything that seems too good to be true, there are downsides (and dangers) to taking drugs.
This resource provides information about:
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This TED-Ed learning activity guides students through the common misconception that if you like to meticulously organize your things, keep your hands clean, or plan out your weekend to the last detail, you might be OCD. In fact, OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) is a serious psychiatric condition that is frequently misunderstood by society and mental health professionals alike. Natascha M. Santos debunks the myths surrounding OCD.
The activity includes a video, multiple choice and open-ended questions, additional resources to dig deeper, and a guided discussion.
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This link contains videos that provide an overview and video examples of basic yoga poses including Downward Dog, Child's Pose, Hero, Squat, and Sphinx. Each video offers an overview of the benefits of the given yoga pose.
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This TED-Ed learning activity guides students through the explanation, possible causes, and treatment for bipolar disorder. The word bipolar means ‘two extremes.’ For the many millions experiencing bipolar disorder around the world, life is split between two different realities: elation and depression. So what causes this disorder? And can it be treated? Helen M. Farrell describes the root causes and treatments for bipolar disorder.
The activity includes a video, multiple choice and open-ended questions, additional resources to dig deeper, and a guided discussion.
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Everyone feels sad, depressed, or angry sometimes — especially when dealing with the pressures of school, friends, and family. But some people may feel sadness or hopelessness that just won't go away, and even small problems may seem like too much to handle.
This resource provides information about:
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This TED-Ed learning activity guides students through the explanation of, possible causes, and treatments for depression.
Depression is the leading cause of disability in the world; in the United States, close to ten percent of adults struggle with the disease. But because it’s a mental illness, it can be a lot harder to understand than, say, high cholesterol. Helen M. Farrell examines the symptoms and treatments of depression and gives some tips for how you might help a friend who is suffering.
The activity includes a video, multiple choice and open-ended questions, additional resources to dig deeper, and a guided discussion.
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This TED-Ed learning activity guides students through understanding the importance of positive sleep habits.
In the United States, it’s estimated that 30 percent of adults and 66 percent of adolescents are regularly sleep-deprived. This isn’t just a minor inconvenience: staying awake can cause serious bodily harm. Claudia Aguirre shows what happens to your body and brain when you skip sleep.
The activity includes a video, multiple choice and open-ended questions, additional resources to dig deeper, and a guided discussion.
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Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) causes people to believe that parts of their body look ugly. People with BDD spend hours focused on what they think is wrong with their looks. Many times a day, they do things to check, fix, cover up, or ask others about their looks. They focus on flaws that seem minor to others.
This can be tied directly to a unit on self-esteem and/or eating disorders.
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Many equipment malfunctions and lack of adherence to safety regulations can increase your risk of injury almost as much as playing sports without protective equipment at all. Using the wrong — or not properly fitted — equipment is a major cause of injuries. This resource provides information on sport and exercise safety, including the use of proper safety equipment (helmets, pads, eye protection), the value of proper warm up, rest, recovery, and rule following.
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Food labels tell you what's inside the food you're eating and list its parts. This resource teaches upper elementary students the basics of food labels, including nutrition facts, comparing labels, serving sizes, calories, fat, macronutrients, and vitamins and minerals.
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This classroom resource is a free lesson plan from Teacher.org. In this lesson plan, students participate in a game of basketball using various sizes of available balls. This lesson plan for basketball skills will assist students in refining skills for a lifetime activity playing basketball, interacting with respect and sportsmanship with their peers.
This lesson plan teaches respect for others and teamwork.
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This resource is a template for a high school level student to develop a Personal Exercise Program. It could be used for all courses: Beginning Kinesiology, Advanced Kinesiology, and junior or senior year PE elective class. The template available in this lesson is suitable for the athlete or non-athlete.
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This is a lesson plan for disc golf. It discusses the rules, techniques, and tactical aspects involved in disc golf. Modifications are provided in the lesson plan for setting up the course.
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You probably know someone who has had cancer, perhaps an older friend or relative. Read on in this resource to learn about cancer and how it's treated.
This resource provides information about the following topics:
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Soccer is a sport that is enjoyed by children, men, and women of all ages. In order to be a successful soccer player, it is important to master the many skills involved in the sport. This resource will provide a lesson working on three major skills: passing, trapping, and heading in soccer.
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This resource provides a survey for physical education classes to assist teachers in determining what will be the best units to cover for the school year. This is a great way to get input from your students and to ensure students will be more engaged when given ownership.
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The health-related choices students learn to make when they’re young can have a lasting impact on their lifetime well-being, happiness, and academic success. EVERFI’s Healthier Me is an innovative, games-based middle school health curriculum that gives students the tools to make healthy, informed decisions when it comes to health and nutrition.
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