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This resource is a balance beam lesson focusing on dismounts and balance beam movements. It includes several movements that students can do to enhance their balance, coordination, weight transfer, and directionality skills. 

This activity is a lead-up game to soccer that teaches skills through different methods and opportunities for scoring. The activity is designed to keep students moving throughout the class, to build skills to participate in soccer, and to be confident in their ability. It is will also increase their foot-eye coordination.

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

Students will be placed into diverse teams to develop a recreational game. The project will take place over a six-week period, with each individual week designated for separate smaller projects, each with specific learning objectives and outcomes.

The Tinikling dance is a popular traditional dance of the Philippine Islands. It is an imitation of the Tinikling bird walking between grass stems, running over tree branches, and dodging bamboo traps set by the rice farmers.

Students run, stop on signal, and pivot. Vary the activity by having the class pivot on the left or right foot and increase the circumference of the pivot. Movement should be continuous. Students pivot and then continue running.

This activity can be used as a lead-up activity for basketball. This is also a good activity to practice spatial awareness. Demonstrative videos are included in this resource.

This is a free resource from the National Council for Open Education. Physical fitness not only produces higher self-esteem, but it also reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease. Not to mention that working out is a great way to relieve stress. This lesson will teach the students how being physically fit can help them live a more positive life. To help students feel better about themselves and their abilities, and to help the students become more physically fit, the students will record their physical activity for one month. They will be required to take part in a minimum of three vigorous physical activities per week. The students will compare and contrast the way they feel about themselves before and after this month long project. The students will list three reasons why being physically fit is important to them.

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

Players need to work together to find solutions to group/individual challenges. Cooperation games put an emphasis on team building, communication and trust. Tactical problems relating to cooperation games include communication, cooperation, teamwork, trust, and problem-solving. This resource includes multiple descriptions and illustrations for cooperative games. 

Teaching parkour is a great way to get students active with their surroundings inside or outside, and to get them excited about taking safe risks and enjoying movement. 

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. 

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

Doctors order lots of scans, but it takes a specially trained doctor to figure out what a scan means and diagnose exactly what's going on inside the body. David explains why he thinks the years of study to become a radiologist are worth it.

The purpose of this activity is for students to enhance their locomotor skill ability of walking, running, hopping, jumping, galloping, and sliding. This activity also promotes the skill of pacing. At the end of the activity, have students check their pulse (neck, chest, & wrist) and talk about the benefits of increasing your heart rate.

“Silent ball” is a fun physical and educational game that can be adapted to review any subject.

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

This is an interactive game that can be used when teaching a lesson on resting heart rate and its relationship to moderate and vigorous activity. Students can use this interactive to determine their desired intensity level. 

This resource explains a "Couch to 5K" program and what one must consider before attempting this training. This informational material gives great tips and suggestions for students to understand to be successful. Additionally, this site has links to a specific training program. 

Set up a Knee Ping Pong court by using the floor tape to mark off a 3' wide by 6' long rectangular area along the gym floor. Use one color floor tape for the two 6' long sidelines and use the second colored floor tape to mark the two 3' backcourt lines. This activity will teach students the fundamentals of ping pong without having real ping pong tables.

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

According to statista.com, fitness running is one of the most popular physical activities in the United States with almost 56 million people participating in 2017. That number is an increase of approximately 14 million people since 2007. With that in mind, OPEN and the New York Road Runners have teamed up to bring you an outcomes-based approach for preparing your high school students to enjoy a lifetime of fitness running.

Students watch a short film, A Game for Life by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, about an innovative soccer program in the poor neighborhood of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, that helps to educate local youth about HIV/AIDS prevention.

In this lesson, students explore how participation in team sports can help empower youth in other areas of their lives. Students identify principles of how young people learn and discuss the ties between sports, civic engagement, and HIV/AIDS prevention. Reflective writing prompts are also included for students to demonstrate their understanding of the story.

By performing this activity, students will practice throwing for accuracy as well as distance.

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

Mindfulness is a way of paying attention to what is happening right now, by observing what’s going on inside (your thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations) and outside (your interactions and surroundings) with curiosity, openness, and acceptance. This informational material is a 44-page resource packet filled with activities and visuals so students can better understand mindfulness. These exercises begin with checking in and mindful breathing, where you focus attention on the breath as it flows in and out of the body.

Every season, ACL injuries take thousands of students out of the game. To help you reduce the risk of ACL injuries for your student-athletes, the NFHS has partnered with the Hospital for Special Surgery to bring you this course.

This course is designed to teach you about the causes of ACL injury, how to identify and correct movement deficiencies that can lead to ACL injuries, and how to effectively lead a Neurodynamic Warm-Up before practices and games.

In this activity, students work together to cross a "toxic river". The purpose of this activity is to teach students to work together cooperatively and think outside the box. This lesson can be modified and adjusted based on the equipment that is available.

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

This TED-Ed learning activity guides students through the explanation of how the liver works in keeping us alive.

There’s a factory inside you that weighs about 1.4 kilograms and runs for 24 hours a day. It’s your liver: the heaviest organ in your body, which simultaneously acts as a storehouse, a manufacturing hub, and a processing plant. Emma Bryce gives a crash course on the liver and how it helps keep us alive.

The activity includes a video, multiple choice and open-ended questions, additional resources to dig deeper, and a guided discussion.

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

The purpose of this activity is for students to learn twelve exercises which can be done with dumbbells, as well as the muscle that is being worked.

Have you ever wondered what stretching actually does to your muscles and your body? What is the best way to stretch? And why are some people...stretchier than others? Those questions and more will be explored in this TED-Ed video.

This free resource from ShareMyLesson is a football unit. This unit offers 10 lessons on throwing and catching a football, punting a football, how to pull flags, how to move into space playing keep away and playing small sided games of flag football. The unit was designed for 7th graders but could also be used for 6th or 8th graders. It has a group project to allow students to learn about football through research on the internet and creating a power point presentation to present to the class. The lessons allow plenty of time for students to practice and learn the skills and offers a game for the students that have achieved mastery of the skills. The unit plan does allow for a fitness or mile day and includes assessments for throwing, catching and punting a football. Note: This is a free resource, but teachers will need to create a free account to access the resource.

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

This resource provides a Volleying and Striking Skills Self-Assessment for grades K-2. Students will draw faces to show how they are doing with a skill.

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

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. 

This is a large collection of baseball lead-up games. These activities are heavily focused on throwing and catching in both static and dynamic environments.

This resource includes both written and visual descriptions.

The learners will work on building trust while working together to complete a simple obstacle course.

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

The MyPlate Plan shows your food group targets – what and how much to eat within your calorie allowance. Your food plan is personalized, based on your age, sex, height, weight, and physical activity level. The MyPlate Plan is also available in Spanish.

This is an interactive webpage allowing students to enter their information with the webpage auto-calculating. Students are then given plans related to the caloric needs of students. 

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.

The walking and jogging lesson offers an emphasis on developing activity patterns that can be used outside of the school environment. An educational approach to this lesson teaches students that walking and jogging is a personal activity that offers excellent health benefits. It is an activity that can literally be done for a lifetime. This resource includes suggestions for implementing this unit of instruction.

This activity will help students practice dynamic and static balance through a variety of balance activities.

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

This booklet is designed for coaches who want to incorporate lessons of character into their daily practice plans. Coaches can take the character lessons into as much depth as the age of their teams and time allows.