During class time the students will work with a partner and discuss how they handle stress in their everyday lives. Using what they have learned in the lesson the students will list three positive effects that exercise has on mental health and prepare a class presentation.
Parkour is an art of movement in which you train the body and mind to overcome obstacles. It emphasizes strength, flexibility, balance, body control, creativity, fluidity, discipline, and precision. Parkour movements include running, jumping, vaulting, climbing, balancing, and crawling. Parkour training focuses on safety, responsibility, overcoming fear, and self-improvement.
In this learning activity, the students will research the necessary components of a sports physical. The resource, Teens Health, will help to determine what is involved with the medical procedures.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This resource provides an interactive guide to engage, explore, apply, and reflect on heart rate. Resting and target heart rate activities are included in addition to guiding application questions for each.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
It’s a huge commitment to be an ER doc. But how many people can say they save lives and really mean it? Yamini talks about the rewards – and pressures – of her job.
The purpose of this activity is for students to be able to grasp the concept of personal space, direction, using locomotor skills, and different pathways. Their goal is to find their own pathway through the "forest" without touching any of the obstacles (thorns, rocks, or tree limbs). They can cross the bridges (aerobic steps) when they come to them. Students focus on personal space (by not being next to someone), correctly performing various locomotor skills (skipping, walking, running, etc.), and finding different pathways through the "forest".
This is a video of a dribbling practice game. Players will partner up so there will be pairs spread out in the gym. In each pair, one player will start as the dribbler and have a basketball (or soccer ball, depending on which game you want to play). The other player will place a hula hoop on the floor and stand with at least one foot inside of it. The player inside the hoop will try to knock away the balls of other players who come too near (remember that one foot must always be inside the hoop). If a player’s ball gets knocked away, they simply retrieve it and continue dribbling.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
Looking for Locomotor Skills GIFs? This folder contains GIFS that you can use as you wish along with the video version and a Slides file with all GIFs embedded. Make a copy and edit as needed! This resource can be used when demonstrating hopping, galloping, and sliding.
The fact that run/walks are classic fundraising events for nonprofit organizations doesn’t make them any easier to plan and execute. Like any event, attendance and fundraising results are very important, but run/walks involve extra challenges and expenses including marketing, registration, and safety. This guide will walk you through the process of organizing a charity run/walk event for your organization, covering logistics like choosing a date, location, and t-shirts, along with volunteer management, budgeting, and promotion.
Help students learn multiple concepts of football in a modified game setting. Students will be placed in groups of 3. One will be the Quarterback, one will be the Wide Receiver, and the other will be the Defensive Back also known as Corner Back. Each group of three will have a "playbook" of 3-4 plays.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
Creative Mode Fitness is a fun and vigorously active way to teach students critical fitness concepts and basic fitness planning. It’s designed to be used with heart rate monitor technology—preferably a team heart rate monitoring system, such as Polar GoFit.
The main objective of this module is to teach students fundamental fitness concepts through fun and vigorously active learning activities. Students will produce safe and appropriate training routines in a group setting, as well as personal Tabata routines that they can perform safely at home.
Learn the difference between strength, endurance, and power in this lesson. This lesson can be organized as self-paced for students to enjoy on their own or teachers could use the slide presentation to pace the instruction of this content. Students will find out how body fat impacts both fitness and health, the different types of exercise, and how to create an activity plan.
In this lesson, students will work on deceiving their opponents, defending their territories, and maintaining a rally. This idea can be modified for use in a variety of sports, including badminton, tennis, volleyball, etc.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
Fit cards are a tool to help you get (or stay) in shape at home or at the gym. Contrary to popular belief you don’t need a lot of time and equipment to get stronger, more toned, and to feel and look better.
Social Media for Students has been designed to give students the information that they need to develop responsible social media habits. This course illustrates the long-term consequences that irresponsible social media usage can have on a student’s educational, athletic, and professional careers. It shows students ways in which they can use social media to promote their team, school, community, and their own personal brand. Social media has turned every user into a mass communicator. Learning how to skillfully and safely utilize it now, will greatly help you as you continue to use social media in the future.
This resource includes several videos and graphics about the importance of wearing a bicycle helmet and how to create a proper fit. These videos can be displayed during a class session and the graphics can be used to stem class discussion or can be printed to be displayed in the gym or bulletin board.
In this activity, students are dribbling in free space using the proper cues of the tap and bump technique. Students dribble around the space and try not to get tagged. Students get tagged when the balls from other students collide. If this happens, students hug their ball and spread their legs until one of the untagged students kicks their ball through the open legs of the tagged student. A tagged student can now dribble again once this occurs.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
Lacrosse basketball is a game where students are working with their team to score in the baskets by dunking the ball. This game will have students combining lacrosse skills, changing speed and direction in game situations. The object of the game is to score by passing the ball to your “goal player” in the corner of the activity area who will dunk it in the basket. This is a fun and fast-paced activity that incorporates cooperation skills within a small group setting.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
The purpose of this activity is to reinforce fundamental motor skills (run, jump, hop, gallop, slide, leap and skip) and exercises-Watermelon Jack (jumping jacks), Cauliflower Power (push-ups), Raisin Bread (sit-ups), Crab-by Kick (crab kick), and Move n’ Milk (walking hands and feet).
This website describes 37 different food journals and gives tips on how to be successful during this process. A food journal is a useful tool for improving health. It is a tool that can be used to track what one eats at every meal. Keeping a food diary allows one to:
The purpose of this activity is for students to practice using a hockey stick to perform soft taps while traveling and changing directions while dribbling and dodging in general space.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
This resource provides posters that can be printed with the skills and cues that are associated with locomotor and manipulative skills.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
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.
ACE Fit offers a number of free tools and calculators to help you determine everything from your body mass index (BMI) to your target heart rate zone, your blood pressure, body fat composition, daily caloric needs, and more. Each of those tools will help you find an exercise program that fits your individual needs and goals, whether that be losing weight or increasing your strength with weight training.
This learning activity is a free resource from PE Kansas Lesson Plans. This activity can be used to help students throw using manipulatives while moving. Students will practice throwing to a moving target and catching while moving.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Development Summit.
This Sesame Street produced video stars Melissa McCarthy discussing the word of the day, "choreographer." After this discussion, Elmo and Melissa lead a dance.
This video from YouTube describes the five components of fitness to elementary school students.
This should be a relaxed lesson with 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 is done without equipment and offers excellent health benefits. Walking can be done throughout the lifespan.
The object of the activity is to put money in the bank by making shots at every poly spot. Students work together at each basketball goal to make shots and put money in the bank. This is a fun and fast pace shooting activity that incorporates cooperation skills within a small group setting
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
Throughout this lesson, youth will understand how to effectively use stress management tools and techniques and will identify unhealthy and healthy ways to cope with a stressful situation.
The purpose of this activity is to see if students can identify if their peers are using the correct cues when dribbling a basketball.
Physical inactivity has consistently been shown to be one of the most powerful, modifiable risk factors for all causes of death and disease, alongside smoking and obesity.
This interactive body map brings together scientific evidence on the links between lack of physical activity and disease.
This is a cardio drumming routine choreographed to the song "When Will I See You Again" by Owl City. This resource can be used with students as they watch (using a digital projector or teacher-led) and duplicate the choreographed dance steps.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
This learning activity will help students understand the concept of inclusion and that everyone belongs no matter the situation. It can be used during a lesson on positive social interactions when engaging in physical activity.
