This is a video resource on YouTube linked from the OpenPhysEd site. This can be used as a tutorial to teach students the Triangle Dance or for the teacher to become more familiar with the dance.
The purpose of this activity is to get students' heart rates elevated using a gamified approach. This resource comes with a "fit deck" of cards. Students will complete the activities on the cards in a relay-like activity.
This video shows Dr. Evan Matthews explaining how to use the 6-20 Borg RPE (Rating of Perceived Exertion) scale. This scale is oftentimes used when assessing exercise intensity.
This video resource gives students a quick overview of the cardiac rehabilitation profession. A cardiac rehabilitation team can consist of many professionals, including those employed as exercise specialists. Heart patients are benefiting from amazing advances in technology, surgery, and treatments. At Mayo Clinic, 75% of them also take advantage of a way to help them recover better and live longer – cardiac rehabilitation.
Millions of children play sports every year, and unfortunately over 3 million injuries occur every year. In this video, Anikar Chhabra, M.D., the director of Sports Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, lists the top sport injuries in youths and why early sport specialization may be to blame.
This is a soccer lead-up activity. Students should have the basic fundamentals of dribbling and passing before attempting this activity.
The purpose of this assessment is to have students self monitor their jump roping skills. The assessments let students know what jumps they need to spend more time practicing. This assessment can be used as a self-assessment or a peer assessment. The jumps listed on the jump rope checklist should be jumps the students have practiced during the week.
The purpose of this activity is to develop rhythmic skills of students with a series of sequences and patterns to music and to incorporate the use of both sides of the brain.
The students will practice dribbling with their feet while working on spatial awareness and ball control. The students should have already been taught to look around while dribbling. They should be able to dribble without constantly looking down at their ball. All children will dribble at once so they need to look up and all around while dribbling so they don't bump into each other.
The purpose of the activities is to get the students moving outside of school and to teach them about different aspects of healthy living. With these assignments, we are also attempting to get the community involved as well.
The purpose of this assessment is to see if students can identify the four steps used when solving minor problems.
Explain that the first step to managing stress is recognizing the symptoms. Brainstorm with students a list of signs and symptoms that students may experience when they are in a stressful situation (sweating, crying, headaches, etc.). Explain that stress can be good or bad, but either way, stress still elicits the same signs and symptoms. Explain that stress can also be categorized as manageable and preventable. Ask for some examples of stressors that can be managed (homework, chores, etc.). Ask students to brainstorm ways to prevent these causes of stress (do homework on time, organize, plan, don't procrastinate, etc.).
The purpose of this activity is to teach a simple line-dance to students. This activity could also provide students an opportunity to choreograph dance steps during a section of the song.
The purpose of this activity is to facilitate the development and maintenance of physical fitness by using fitness walking as the activity and participate in the "mixed up" activity to understand that time, force, and flow impact heart rate.
Students will learn a dance that is frequently performed in the Philippines, as well as the legend and history surrounding the dance. They will also be introduced to the history of this country, along with the country’s geography and languages.
Students will learn the basic polka step, a polka dance combination, how to count from 1-10 in Czech, Polish, and German, the history of the polka dance, and the Oktoberfest celebrations.
33 Zone Frisbee is a form of Ultimate Frisbee played with 3 zones with 3 Frisbees. Students should have previously practiced throwing and catching a Frisbee and have played Ultimate Frisbee.
This game would be perfect for a short class or for a warm-up game. It promotes teamwork, effort, and strategy. Students may become motivated because it's a competition. You can keep a scoreboard in the gym if you play it in the future and even use it as a whole class challenge to get a certain amount with a time limit so everyone is working together. Don't forget to encourage students as they are running, jogging, or walking.
The purpose of this activity is to reinforce proper overhand and underhand throwing skills. Students will use hula hoops, yarn balls, and polyspots in this fun throwing activity.
Before doing this activity students should have already learned about nutrition, the role of different nutrients in our body, and special dietary concerns (i.e., sugar for diabetics, iron for people who are anemic, protein for athletes, calcium for women, etc.).
The purpose of this activity is for students to see how much their diet differs from the Daily Recommended Intake (DRI).
By participating in this learning activity students will understand the meaning of the words valid, reliable, and unbiased; be able to evaluate the trustworthiness of online information; understand what quackery is; and identify the common persuasive techniques used to sell fraudulent products.
This activity is designed to show students how difficult it can be to make healthy food choices and to help them understand the nutritional information available for a variety of foods. This activity can be done at the start of a nutrition unit. It was developed after the author realized that many students had no idea how to make good food choices or how to interpret nutritional information. Many students are keen to adopt or maintain a healthy active lifestyle, yet neglect to ensure that they are eating from all the food groups and that they are consuming nutritious food that is beneficial to them.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to develop knowledge and skills to enhance mental and emotional well-being. In essence, the students will be able to identify stress and learn to cope with it in a positive way.
The purpose of this activity is for students to develop a plan to increase their fitness levels. Students will be creating their own program in order to improve their own fitness level. Their scores will be documented on their plan. While they are in their squads, students will create their own fitness plan and reflect on the importance of fitness testing.
This resource is informational material that can be used by the teacher to incorporate into their lesson planning. This text defines flexibility, identifies how to build flexibility, explains how much stretching is enough, and covers the benefits of flexibility. This resource includes pictures, important terminology, and review questions.
This game resembles "Plinko" from the game show The Price is Right. The purpose is to improve shooting skills and accuracy while playing a unique archery game. Prior to this lesson, students should have the skills to hit their target from 10-15 yards with consistency.
Note: Safety is of the utmost importance while teaching or engaging in an archery lesson.
Quick-Serve Tennis is a fast-paced game used to introduce the basic play of tennis without the requirements of serving into the service box. Particular emphasis should be placed on the pace of play and the players being ready for balls put in play.
This assessment will determine if students can apply what they have learned about the different golf strokes.
This video describes the role and career possibilities of dieticians.
Students will use the Quizizz response system to complete a Pythagorean Theorem and Its Converse assessment. Quizizz allows the teacher to conduct student-paced formative assessments through quizzing, collaboration, peer-led discussions, and presentation of content in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages.
This YouTube video will help explain how to teach multi-step equations using a worksheet from Kuta Software. Kuta Software is free software for math teachers that creates worksheets in a matter of minutes. There are a series of three videos to fully teach this concept. The videos are labeled Multi-Step Equations Part 1, Multi-Step Equations Part 2, and Multi-Step Equations Part 3. This video can be played as a continuation of a lesson on solving multi-step equations. This video is 9 minutes and 3 seconds in length.
This Kuta Software worksheet will provide a formative assessment of adding and subtracting polynomials that is important for the students' learning. This resource will grant the teacher ways to give specific, useful feedback to the students as they learn. This assessment can be assigned through Google Classroom.
This visual tool illustrates how to decompose numbers and find four different products. As students' skills improve, they will move from this pictorial model into a concrete method called partial products.
When first learning to multiply two 2-digit numbers, students will use the area model. To start, students will use their knowledge of place value to decompose into tens and ones. To decompose means to break apart. This video will introduce students to this strategy.
Learning to assess the reasonableness of an answer is an important mathematical skill. It’s students' way of seeing if they are on the right track when problem-solving. Sometimes we use rounding to estimate a solution.
