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Smoking may be at near-record lows, but vaping remains popular. Among high school seniors, nearly 1 in 3 admitted to using some type of vaping product. 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? Have your students watch the video and respond to the questions. 

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.

This website identifiies 4 technology based resources that a teacher could use to enhance their gymnastics unit. 

Students will understand how teams are used in the workplace and those skills that will make them effective team members. Students will self-assess their behavior in a recent team situation.

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

Did you know that playing tennis with a badly strung racquet while wearing worn-out shoes can increase your risk of injury almost as much as playing football without shoulder pads? Using the wrong — or not properly fitted — equipment is a major cause of injuries.

Lesson Focus: to sustain a high level of cardiovascular activity while scoring on and defending the goal during a modified soccer game. 

This is a simple and fun activity to help students understand space awareness, levels, directionality, and following directions. This activity can be used as a warm-up activity or as an activity within the lesson focusing on those specific skills. 

This resource is a video of a wonderful high school Physical Education circuit training lesson. Students are participating in a variety of activities and checking their heart rates.

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

The early grades are an ideal time to introduce children to different styles of dance. At this age, children are eager to explore all the ways their bodies can move and are open to taking risks and following cues. They enjoy moving to music and interacting with their peers on the dance floor.

These easy social dances are a great place to start. And in case you need a cheat sheet for leading the dancing, these dances are easily printable!

This is a great way to assess jumping and hopping skills. As an extension, have students put together repeatable patterns using different movement concepts and locomotor skills or jump patterns.

We spend more time than ever using media and everywhere we turn there are messages telling us how we should look that can make us feel less confident about our appearance. While we’re probably not going to use fewer media, we can protect our self-image and body confidence from media’s narrow-body ideals that reinforce thinness for women and muscularity for men. It’s all about asking the right questions. 

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.

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

Grover knows all about force. Grover uses force every day and is a force expert. What? You don't know what force is? Force is the pushing and pulling you use to move things. When do you use force? This video can be used as an introduction to a lesson on force and to demonstrate from the scenes in the video the difference between strong and light force. 

Marathon runners must run much greater distances than their track-and-field counterparts, needing to start slow and speed up towards the end. This experiment will help you to discover why.

This year-long challenge is called the “U.S.A. Run for Fun.” It promotes fitness, healthy living, teamwork, and also helps to support the integration of mathematics and geography into the physical education program.

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

The purpose of this activity is to have students practice passing a puck in different directions, as well as learning how to receive a pass.

This is a 10 day lesson plan to teach 4th and 5th graders the skills for team handball. Students will have the opportunity to practice dribbling, passing, and catching skills at the beginning of the unit and will use these skills in modified game play at the end of the unit. 

The article explains the rules and regulations for hunting and fishing in Alabama.

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

As kids, our bodies need 60 minutes of exercise every day to be healthy. Our brains like it too! This is a short video to reinforce the importance of students being active for 60 minutes each day. 

Many teachers don’t know where to begin with PE activities and what needs to be covered. For healthy physical bodies, agility, balance, and coordination (ABC’s) are three fundamental abilities that need to be developed. These activities include cooperative skills where students must work and engage with other students.

This resource includes activity ideas using graphics and video links. This resource includes a link to purchase more activities, however, this site is free and includes many valuable learning activities. 

The purpose of this activity is to work together as a team, show positive sporting behavior, and figure out solutions to the problems presented. Students will have to cross an imaginary river as a team without touching it.

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

This video is a compilation of 12 blindfolded trust-building games and activities designed to strengthen relationships and build trust in indoor or outdoor settings.

Ever ask yourself, "how do I find my target heart rate?" Finding your target heart rate is easy with our target heart rate calculator. Target heart rate calculation can be determined for any age and activity level, enabling you to use a heart rate monitor and get the most benefit from your workouts.

Follow the story of Kendrick Fincher, a football player from Rogers, Arkansas who suffered a heat stroke during a pre-season practice. Kendrick's mother shares her vivid memories of the difficult battle Kendrick lost to heat stroke. The video will help lead a discussion about exercising in the heat, humidity, and cold.

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

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. 

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

This resource is a collection of ideas for student self-assessment. 

This visual organizer breaks down the acronym for setting a SMART Goal and allows students to put their goals on paper. While a simplistic worksheet, this resource can be printed and used during goal-setting activities. 

This resource is a hand dribbling activity for K-2 students.  This activity could work for large group activities.

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

The purpose of the activities is to get the students moving outside of school and to teach them about muscular strength fitness exercises and why they are so important .

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

A cooperative game for students that incorporates the seasons (science) and activity. The following link is also needed for the task cards for this activity:

https://openphysed.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/PC-01-06-SpaceScienceConnection-ChangeSeasonTaskCard.pdf

Locomotor, balance, and throwing skills are utilized on these cards.

• Skill: I will follow movement pathways and patterns.
• Cognitive: I will discuss how the sun’s position relative to the
  Earth affects our patterns of daylight and temperature.
• Fitness: I will stay actively engaged during the activity.
• Personal & Social Responsibility: I will share equipment and
  space with classmates.

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

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.

This resource is a large collection of basketball lead-up games. These activities are geared toward skills such as dribbling, passing, catching, moving to open space, and shooting.

This resource provides both written and visual descriptions. 

In this activity, the students will be hunters or rabbits. You can choose a few hunters out of the class (for example 4-5 students). Students must all remain in the forest (which is the space the students will be in to perform the locomotor tasks). When the teacher says, "Run Rabbits Run", or "Skip Rabbits Skip", or other locomotor skills (slide, gallop, hop, etc.), the students will complete the task. If a hunter catches a rabbit, then the rabbit becomes a tree in the forest. The hunters must use the designated locomotor skill the teacher calls out when attempting to catch the rabbits. The hunters can be changed at the teacher's discretion. 

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

This free resource from Open Online Physical Education Network contains a variety of activities, assessments, lesson plans, and planning tools designed to teach students about the sport of roundnet.

In this module, the "Etiquette Discussion Exit Slip" tool is in assessing students. 

Note:  Open Online Physical Education Network is a free resource, but teachers need to create a free account to access the resources available.

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.