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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:

• Become more accountable for your eating habits
• Identify your motivation for eating
• Focus on your nutritional requirements
• Know your food triggers, for pinpointing allergies
• Keep track of calories for weight loss/gain goals
• Eat more healthily

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.

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 dance was created with choreography that is meant to be fun and warm up the whole body. Teachers can use the Fist Pump Jump Jump Activity Card to teach the choreography of this dance and/or use the YouTube video. 

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

The purpose of this activity is to have students practice their batting skills. 

This is an informative overview of how an experienced physical education teacher teaches gymnastics. This resource includes a unit plan, instructional videos, and instructional materials. 

Body image refers to how people see themselves. Distorted body image (also called negative body image) refers to an unrealistic view of how someone sees their body.  Like eating disorders, it is seen most commonly in women, but many men also suffer from the disorder.

You begin forming your perceptions of your body’s attractiveness, health, acceptability, and functionality in early childhood.  This body image continues to form as you age and receive feedback from peers, family members, coaches, etc.

Personality traits such as perfectionism and self-criticism can also influence the development of a negative internalized image of your body.

Learn about working in sports therapy from Anita O’Brian, a therapeutic recreation specialist. She manages SportsNet at Rochester Rehabilitation in Rochester, New York. She explains how she enables people to participate in a wide variety of therapeutic recreation activities.

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

This resource is a listing of station ideas that promote the concept of balance. This learning activity can be used to help students understand the skill of balancing. 

This assessment can be used to assess students' knowledge of skill-related and health-related fitness. The accompanying video can be accessed at this link. 

Video: Health-Related Physical Fitness - Platinum

Most coaches use dribbling and ball handling interchangeably. Though they are linked, the two skills are definitely separate.

Dribbling and controlling the ball is a skill that can be practiced alone and is separate from the other ball skills on the court. Ball handling, however, involves knowledge of the game and integrates dribbling, passing, and decision-making.

Practicing and improving your dribbling is a simple task. There are innumerable dribbling drills that are in use today that are challenging and effective. The set of drills that have come to be known as "Maravich Drills," (after the late ball-handling wizard Pete Maravich) are widely known. They include drills such as passing the ball around your body, dribble figure 8s, spider dribbling, drop and catch.

This resource provides information about improving these skills with various drills.

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

This learning activity includes the expectations and a rubric. It can be used in printed format or in digital format through Google Classroom or by printing QR codes that students can scan for easy access to the activity. 

Handball can be played cooperatively or competitively. This booklet is written with a cooperative focus since it is intended for the elementary level. However, handball can be played recreationally or competitively, with many avenues for high-level competition. The United States Handball Association and local organizations host many local, state, regional, and national tournaments. There are a variety of formats including one-wall, three- wall and four-wall handball. Divisions include a wide variety of age groups (including juniors) and skill level categories.

Students will refine their soccer skills by dribbling the soccer ball.  This lesson has three parts available.  First, students will dribble the soccer ball from one side of the gym to the other side of the gym while maintaining control of the ball.  Students will have several opportunities to dribble but they will also have time to watch their partners dribble by taking turns.  Second, using the same keywords and techniques as mentioned above students will attempt to dribble the ball with both feet while zigzagging through the cones. Last, following the plans from the first and second parts of this lesson, students will try to keep the ball away from their partner while also being very careful not to lose control of the ball or bump into any other soccer players.

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

In this fitness activity, players will have fun and get sweaty through a variety of exercises. Players must first choose a partner. 1 partner goes to an exercise to start while the other starts and the end line. On the “go” signal, half the players will be exercising for 45 seconds (or whatever time is chosen) while the other half is running back and forth from end line to end line. After 45 seconds yell “switch” and the partners switch roles. They will then cycle through the same format every 45 seconds until completing all 6 or 8 exercises. Take a break, get a drink of water, and go again!

The object of the game is for offensive teams to “capture” the corners by throwing their foam balls and knocking a playground ball off of a cone. Defensive teams are assigned to a cone and will work to knock offensive shots away. Students are working to create open space by staying spread on offense, cutting and passing quickly, and using off-the-ball fakes.

This is an alternative way for students to practice the accuracy of their tennis strokes. The purpose is to hit the ball away from your opponents but within the lines.

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

This resource includes lesson planning, risk management policies, and emergency protocols for mountain biking. 

Your workout motivation—or rather un-motivation—could be directly linked to dehydration. This mini-slideshow can help students understand the benefits of properly hydrating the body and the affects when the body exhibits dehydration. 

Dynamic stretching is a movement-based type of stretching. It uses the muscles themselves to bring about a stretch. It's different from traditional "static" stretching because the stretch position is not held. This resource contains videos of dynamic stretching techniques for high school students.

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

This is a lesson plan for disc golf. It discusses the rules, techniques, and tactical aspects involved in disc golf. Modifications are provided in the lesson plan for setting up the course. 

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

This activity is a quick warm-up created for 3-5 graders. The activity builds off previous knowledge of fitness concepts and skills such as jumping jacks, mountain climbers, burpees, etc.

This planner offers a structured guide to help students set meaningful and productive SMART goals. This 7-page document can be printed and copied for student use or assigned digitally for students to complete the fillable pdf. 

This resource is a worksheet for personal fitness for grades 4-6. The worksheet can be used to help students plan a game or activity of their own. This helps promote critical thinking and imagination, along with personal fitness.

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