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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.

This Field Day water activity allows students to work independently and together with their peers in a game setting. This activity is a Ketchup Bottle Tag. The object of the game is to tag other players by squirting them with your ketchup bottle. On the start signal, begin at a speed-walking pace. When your ketchup bottle is empty, move to a refill station, and hold plank position as long as you can while your teacher refills your bottle.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE Course of Study Resource Alignment Summit.

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 is a large collection of soccer lead-up activities that can be used when teaching the skills of dribbling with the feet, passing/trapping, shooting, space awareness, and kicking. 

This resouce includes a description of the activity and also an informative video. 

This free resource from PE Central is an assessment for the volleyball underhand serve. The purpose is to assess the students' ability to underhand serve a volleyball trainer over a net and the presence of the critical elements of the skill. The resource includes a downloadable and printable Underhand Volley Serve Checklist.

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

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. 

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. 

This resource outlines different throwing stations. Additionally, videos are included demonstrating how this lesson would progress. Teaching hints are also included to help students be more successful. 

Students will practice principles of protecting a basketball while dribbling using pivoting.

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

Performance criteria for students performing the forward roll.

Challenge students to develop basic soccer skills and talk about why they enjoy being physically active!

This module was built to help students learn and practice soccer dribbling and passing in a virtual or in-person instructional setting. 

This learning activity is a fitness activity utilizing a parachute. Students will have the opportunity to recognize components of health related physical fitness while working together with their classmates. 

A video of this learning activity is included in this resource. 

This is a great resource for teachers when teaching students how to handle conflict and find resolution during disagreements.

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

Student assessment can be difficult in physical education. This resource discusses the importance of allowing students to assess the teacher and the lesson. This allows students to feel empowered and helps them with the task of both giving and receiving feedback.