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.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
Crack the Code is a fun cooperative activity. Students will guide their blindfolded partner through a color-coded maze using verbal instructions. This resource includes a google slide file with visuals and instructions. One great aspect of this activity is the possibility to modify the game to meet the needs of the students.
This simple mindfulness activity can help reset students’ brains (and yours!) when things get chaotic during the school day. Shifting your focus away from anxious thoughts to non-threatening things in your immediate surroundings can help your body stop producing stress hormones. This exercise was inspired by the 5-4-3-2-1 technique, developed by a therapist and former pilot to help people conquer a fear of flying.
Following along with their teacher, students learn about the various upper body muscles we have such as the bicep and pectoral muscles and learn how to give them a good stretch and exercise. This lesson engages students by focusing on psychomotor and cognitive skills.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
RPS (rock, paper, scissors) Victory Lap is a dynamic warm-up. The object of RPS Victory Lap is to do as many victory laps as you can during a 5-minute warm-up. This is a great cooperative game as students will play with a variety of partners during this activity. On the start signal, students will find any partner and play a game of RPS. The winner of the game will jog to a cone, read the first warm-up task, and then perform that task to the next card. Repeat until the student completes a lap and then re-enter the game and find a new partner. If a student does not win a round of RPS, he/she should quickly find a new partner and try again.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
This is a great assessment to do with younger children to see if they know the difference between overhand and underhand throwing. It is great to do early in the year so you get a sense of what you will need to teach them.
The students circle the cartoon character performing the correct type of throw. We typically do our assessments at the end of the class so that is why we call it an "exit slip." You could do this at the beginning of class making it an "entrance slip."
This is a hand striking activity. In addition to students enhancing their striking skills, students also will be improving their eye-hand coordination skills. An option is also given for students to work cooperatively to improve their teamwork and cooperation skills.
The article from Referee.com explains the traits of an effective official. You don’t usually, for example, develop a calming influence or become great game managers without learning it somewhere. Officials develop from making mistakes, listening to mentors and supervisors, and going to camps. From those experiences, officials become recognized and noticed in a positive way. You’re not just the official taking assignments for a paycheck, showing up at game time and throwing your shirt on, then blasting out of the arena immediately afterward.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
The resource provided is a sample lesson plan/guide for grade 6-12 that will help you make the most of your time. This resource shares different ideas for activities when teaching skills for volleyball. The information is very detailed. It provides several options for taking roll in classes while keeping the students active.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
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.
Meet healthy eating goals one at a time! Use the Start Simple with MyPlate app to pick simple daily food goals, see real-time progress, and earn badges along the way. This easy-to-use app can help you make positive changes. Healthy eating can help you achieve a healthier life overall.
This resource is a picture with hand placement for passing a ball to print out and attach to the wall as a target. This resource is appropriate for grades K-3.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
This resource includes multiple videos, grade level outcomes, vertical progression, and assessment for the skill of jump rope. This resource also included a four-week unit plan to teach jump rope skills. This resource is geared for Kindergarten through fifth-grade. While an extended version of this content can be purchased, this resource is free.
Use this self-assessment for students to reflect on their ball striking skills.
Five or six fitness activities are arranged in the center (the pit) of a large circle outlined with marking spots (the race track). If desired, tumbling mats can be placed in the center of the race track to delineate the pit stop area. Students work with a partner and alternate running (or doing other locomotor movements) or rope jumping around the race track and going to the pit to perform a strength or flexibility exercise. A different exercise should be performed each time so students assure variety in their workout.
A demonstrative video is included in this resource.
Students will perform the proper steps/movements of the line dance, "Same Ole 2 Step", facing four different walls.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
In this activity, students will build core strength with rhythm sticks. This activity can be performed with rhythm sticks, drum sticks, or even 1 pound weights. Each movement contributes to building core strength and the abdominals, quadriceps and gluteus maximum muscle groups.
This lesson will introduce students to an important scientific principle that affects movement. Class discussion followed by teacher designed learning stations will allow students the opportunity to identify and use Newton’s Laws of Motion in physical activities. Through question/answer sessions, the teacher will help students make purposeful connections between science and human movement. After each station, students will complete a worksheet by answering basic recall questions in addition to higher-order thinking questions. The teacher will also check for understanding by asking questions during station participation and posing questions at the conclusion of the lesson.
This is a resource that can be used to identify places to be physically active. To use this site, you begin by either choosing the type of activity you would like to do or by choosing your location.
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.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
To practice the soccer skills of passing and trapping while using the math skill of addition. This learning activity can be used as a peer assessment. Students can be assigned a partner and each partner will evaluate their partner for proper form before having a pass count toward their total. The partner who selects the card performs the pass against the wall, and the partner uses a skill checklist to determine whether or not it is acceptable toward the card total.
Running isn’t just for exercise. Sure, running is healthy, but it’s also a blast! To become a better runner you need to run. That’s obvious, right? But if you want to keep getting better, you need to enjoy running. You need to have fun running. You need to love running. And that is what Ready, Set, Go is all about.
Overflow is a fun activity that is to be used in conjunction with a Frisbee Skills unit. In this game, the object is to score a goal by throwing the disc into the goal for 2 points from outside a designated quarter line or by “zipping” the disc into the goal for 1 point from inside the quarter line.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
This is a 30-minute lesson on kicking with the side of the foot.
Bowler’s Ed is a fun, progressive, and innovative approach to promoting a healthy and active lifestyle while teaching a lifetime sport to children at an early age. The FREE Bowler’s Ed curriculum is approved by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), certified by the United States Bowling Congress (USBC), and recognized by the Bowling Proprietors Association of America (BPAA). Educators are provided the appropriate tools to be successful whether an experienced bowler or teaching it for the first time.
This resource includes ideas for student self-assessment. Students simply tap their self-assessment as they leave the gym giving teachers valuable formative feedback on the efficacy of the lesson.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
The Brain Bites video series teaches physical education concepts in short video bites. In this bite, how to build a fitness routine is taught using the F.I.T.T. Principle and the Overload Principle.
This learning activity is great for a warm-up activity, a chasing or fleeing activity, or an activity to practice specific locomotor skills. Additionally, because this game is designed so that students move along lines on the gym floor, this game can also be used to teach pathways and directionality.
The video provides proper techniques for throwing a frisbee and the rules and scoring for the game of Ultimate Frisbee. This video is a simple version of the basic rules for the team sport of Ultimate Frisbee.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
Learning dance is ultimately a journey of self-expression. Perfecting every step is not what is important. Personal enjoyment, social engagement, and appreciation for all movement forms will ultimately keep dance as an important element of an individual’s physical literacy journey. Teach and reinforce skills and concepts while keeping the magic of movement alive.
In this short video, students will learn about a career as a recreation worker. Recreation workers conduct recreation activities with groups in public, private, or volunteer agencies or recreation facilities. They organize and promote activities, such as arts and crafts, sports, games, music, dramatics, social recreation, camping, and hobbies, taking into account the needs and interests of individual members.
This is a task card which is given to students to carry out during a warm-up by themselves or in groups.
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This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
108°: Critical Response looks at the seriousness of heat illness and its underlying causes, as well as how to treat and prevent exertional heat illness.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
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.
This alignment results from the Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
The purpose of this activity is to help students learn all of the daily routines that make physical education run smoothly on a daily basis. SMART goal setting is also a focus.
