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P.E. & Health Lesson Plans -
- Hey, Back Off! Tips for Stopping Teen Harassment
- Harvard Step Test
- Fitness Gram Brochure Project
- The Benefits of Fruits and Vegetables
- Tootsie Roll Flexibility Lesson
- Music Tag
- Scooter Shopping Spree
- Empowered Decision Making
- Physical Education & Health Lesson Plans - Grades 2-3
- Physical Education & Health Lesson Plans - Junior / High School
- Physical Education & Health Lesson Plans - Grades 4-5
- The Olympics
- Summer Safety Safari
- Fruit and Vegetable Song (sing to Lou Bega's Mambo No.5)
- Jumping like Kangaroos
- Balloon Lesson plan
- A hungry monkey get kids miming and moving in this movement story
- Sinbad the Sailor teaching jumping in this movement story from Saudi Arabia
- Students process "teen stress" here through blogging and by comparing their stressors to those of a literary character
- If you play kickball in school, here's a new version called "Krazy Kickball"
- Jump-O-Math is a game idea that combines hopscotch, counting, and addition
- "Each One Teach One" is a Flatfish stations activity (3-5)
- Students learn about different types of vitamins and how they function in the body
- This sticker book idea promotes healthy eating
- In this lesson, students learn prepositions while enjoying obstacle course activities
- Use these rolling skate games with the moving stool, skate ball, power wings and scooter to enliven your curriculum
- This lesson incorporates weight training, fitness, nutrition and technology
- Towel Volleyball is an equipment naming game
- This lesson headlines "Dairy and the Food Pyramid"
- In this PE/Science lesson, students demonstrate their knowledge of the three states of water in a shuttle run
- Scooter Shopping Spree
- This "nutty" version of Capture the Flag uses squirrels and hawks
- "Around the World Math" is an idea that combines basketball and math problems
- "Tailball" is basketball using a tennis ball with an attached tail
- In this Cookie Monster game, students practice their chasing and fleeing skills
- Students plant a garden and/or fix up a community space for physical activity
- "Santa's Workshop" is a strategy game with red and green cones
- The Male Reproductive System
- These activities encourage physical education outside the classroom
- Big Bear Tag
- In this lesson, students create new shapes with their bodies and even spell words
- Careful here, this one is on Rock Throwing
- The "Clean Your Room Game" involves 2 teams keeping their half of the gym clean of their opponent's balls
- Empowered Decision Making
- A lesson on Rhythm called "Moving Like Waves"
- Love Your Lungs
- Here LearntobeHealthy.com provides us with a food pyramid card game activity
- This Spelling Relay Game could be used in PE and a variety of grade levels
- For all you Harry Potter fans, here is a Quidditch game idea
- This is a golf lesson for 12th grade
- "Snowball" is a dodgeball game variation idea
- Students learn the benefits of green vegetables and the number of recommended servings
- To Smoke Or Not To Smoke
- "What time is it, Mr. Fox?" is a listening, counting, and running game
- Students play a "Simon Says Name That Bone" game in this lesson
- volleyball
- This fun idea involves throwing balls into divided boxes to determine numbers to add (integrates PE)
- Here students use the shuttle run while reviewing for a spelling test
- Jingle Bell Basketball and Get the Candy Cane are just two of these holiday PE ideas
- Rock Sculptures are the subject of this lesson
- Here is a Producers and Consumers Tag game
- Here students practice rolling the ball while moving
- Here is a simply wonderful elimination nerfball game with twists
- This turkey hunt provides number practice
- Here is a thematic idea for picking teams
- Using a jump rope rhyme is an effective idea to teach note values
- Haunted Walk Through
- Here is a review day or substitute teacher activity idea
- Try "Parachute Races" for a unique muscular strength and endurance training activity
- Here is a relay race idea for learning how to spell the names of holidays
- All Stressed Out
- Use this lesson to teach hockey passing and shooting skills
- The purpose of this obstacle course activity is to perfect student movement with a variety of different equipment
- "Airplane" is a movement activity which works on upper body strength and space awareness
- Use this "Open Day Template" as a roadmap to a great Spring Field Day
- Here are "Ten Rules for Back-to-School Success"
- The basic skills of handball are practiced here through soccer and basketball exercises
- Here's a lesson that gets your students to "Jump" into a Story
- In this team-building game, squad members use cooperation skills to island hop their way to Treasure Island
- Here are three balance and ball activity ideas
- This is a soccer dribbling exercise and quiz
- Students prepare and eat a healthy vegetable snack in this step-by-step idea
- "Knights of the Round Relay" is a medieval themed warm-up idea
- Here's an interesting idea for keeping Pet Rock Journals
- Soccer
- This fun idea combines weekly vocabulary words and movement
- This "Bob the Builder" warm-up activity integrates math with a cardiovascular workout
- Instead of "write the spelling words 10 times each", why not try this Jumping Jack Spelling Bee idea?
- "Subtraction Race" combines math with physical education for fun you can count on
- "I see" is a very effective warm-up exercise idea
- This basketball handling skills lesson develops strength, hand/eye coordination and control
- These hand-dribbling exercises stress "keep your ball in your foot pocket"
- Diet Analysis
- Functions of the Skeletal System
- Teams answer archery questions by hitting T/F targets in this cleverly appropriate quiz game idea
- "Camels and Crabs" is a muscular strength and endurance activity
- Kids help make a delicious fresh fruit smoothie drink here
- In "All the Fish in the Sea," students cross the ocean while avoiding obstacles
- The Central Nervous System
- This lesson is on "Math Through Rhythm"
- This is a lesson on careers involving the respiratory system
- After this lesson, students will be able to dribble a ball with either hand while walking
- Olympic Opening Ceremonies
- An impossible "pop quiz" is the perfect beginning for this stress management exercise
- Students write their names with their feet in this name-learning activity
- Here students swim to "Healthy Island" to get items for their food pyramid
- Young students will love this "Clap Your Hands, Make a Pretty Motion" to an ABA beat activity
- "Finding Nemo" is a basketball dribbling exercise and game
- "Sharks and Minnows" is a simple tag game idea
- This idea has students hopping to answer math problems
- The Tree Tag game uses hoola hoops to teach the concepts of self and general space
- Doctor's Visits
- This is a 'George of the Jungle" throwing and swinging game idea
- To integrate Music, this section is on making "Rocky Music"
- This is an article about the amount of physical activity in today's PE Classes
- In this growth and development lesson, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head model physical similarities and differences
- The musical components of college fight songs are compared in this lesson
- Students learn and practice overhead handball passing skills in this lesson
- This is a physically low level activity that also uses colors and shapes
- This section is meant to be a general Exploration of Rocks in general
- Here's a Craft idea to create neat Juggling Balls for use in PE!
- These are physical fitness tests
- Find out here how healthy fast food really is
- "Thrown a Curve" is a reading comprehension lesson on a book about girls' sports and pre-teen relationships
- Kinesthetic Learning is used in this lesson to build Reading Comprehension through Kickball
- Engine, Engine, Number 9, this "Tempo Train" lesson helps you keep time
- Spatial Awareness
- A lesson on Survival when Stranded
- Alfonso Ball
- Do Something about... Eating Healthy - Day 3: Nutritious Choices
- Ghouls and Goblins
- This musical chairs type of game improves student's dribbling skills
- Silly Soccer introduces the sport safely and simply with beach balls
- Ghost and Goblins
- There should be no other name for this fitness lesson except "pure fun"
- This is a walking, running, hopping, jumping, skipping, balancing and landing motor skills activity
- Here is an idea that gets students talking about growing up
- In this game, students use their bodies to represent rhythms
- Turkey Trot
- Here's a fun game idea called "Vocabulary Steal The Bacon"
- This presentation on recognizing and responding to bullying involves skits and role-playing
- "Transformation Information 101" is an introduction to the topic of puberty from LearntobeHealthy.org
- Here students answer math problems by forming into groups of the appropriate number
- "Slider" is a less violent dodgeball game with Frisbee flicks, underhand throwing and cardio activities
- Here group members throw a softball like a shot put and the averaged length is calculated
- This part is on Weight and Balance with Rocks
- This lesson focuses on jumping at different levels
- This lesson idea is called "Fly Butterfly, Fly" and involves Dramatic Student Movement to music by Chopin
- In "Immunity Kickball," everyone gets a turn every time
- Soccer passing drills are practiced to and within a small ring of players in this "Circle Soccer" idea
- Badminton King of the Ring
- Here's another article, this one on "Improving Physical Education"
- Kids make shapes and letters with their bodies in this lesson
- Builders and Bulldozers is guaranteed to be a popular warm-up activity idea
- Students create long-term "Goal Clocks" in this lesson
- Here is a Flatfish Movement activity (K-2)
- Similar to the one above, this one is on Native American Rock Designs
- Students compete in modified biathlon, floor hockey, luge, and figure skating station events here
- Personal Hygiene
- Here is an activity lesson on the various ways people communicate
- This is a user submitted revision of "The Breathing Machine"
- Ultimate Frisbee
- These are the basic skills of ice skating
- This train-themed lesson assesses dodging, chasing, and fleeing skills
- This web hunt shows students why and how we celebrate Independence Day
- This locomotion lesson also teaches color recognition
- "Hocus Pocus" is a fine motor skills game idea
- PE Basketball
- Tobacco Lesson
- These lesson activities work on volleying and dribbling skills
- "Please Don't!" is the name of the teen suicide prevention photo stories resulting from this valuable lesson
- "Capture the Lion" is a team tag game using running, skipping, walking, seeking and capturing skills
- "Basketball Sentences" focuses on basketball skills and sentence structure
- Soccer Relay Races
- Here Nutrient Super Heroes from LearntobeHealthy.org use their powers to identify nutritious foods
- "Decay? No Way!" is a dental health webquest from LearntobeHealthy.org
- This scooter vs. basketball race idea improves basketball passing skills
- Why wash?
- This absolute value inequalities lesson uses the weight gain formula as an example
- On this day at the beach activity, students will learn about body parts using hula hoops and bean bags
- This marching in time lesson also teaches left-right, left-right...
- Here are administrative, motion, and emotional rules for physical education classes K-12
- This ultimate football game idea gets students used to throwing and catching a football with a defender
- Here children learn how to make a healthy peanut butter snack
- These P.E. station activities have a Valentine's Day theme
- Here students select food pyramid items for their balanced meal plates
- "Lessons from the Street" is an introduction to drug education activity
- This lesson is on Poetry and Teamwork, using a Poem from Chicken Soup for the Child's Soul
- Music Theory Basketball is played here
- This Nerf Ball game is used to review spelling words
- In this "delightfully fun" but challenging lesson, students "Step-Clap-Kick" quarter note/rest rhythms
- Students demonstrate the importance of ergonomics in the workplace by creating a digital photo story here
- A Kindergarten lesson idea on Fast and Slow using the book "Quiet as a Cricket"
- This "Tennis Ball Reaction Game" could also be titled "Extreme Two-Square"
- This highly adaptable obstacle relay game enhances team spirit and sportsmanship
- Here's a great lesson on the science of addiction that uses poetry - part of a full curriculum on prescription drug abuse
- A Music lesson on rhythm through creative movement
- Gettyball is indoor softball utilizing a wrapped-up towel "wombat" and a volleyball
- "Open Wide - Brush Inside" is a hands-on dental hygiene lesson
- This food pyramid health lesson culminates with a nutritious "Pyramid Pizza Party"
- This is a Flatfish Data Collection activity (K-2)
- This lesson introduces the freeze-melt-go protocols and the students as well
- This one is on Rocks from an Ant's Eye View
- If it walks like a duck... or a crab, bear, deer or bunny, it must be a... student doing "Animal Warm-Ups"
- Dodgeball War is a great game to play while studying the U.S. Revolutionary or Civil War
- This lesson teaches finger movements for Spanish flamenco castanets
- Here students plant, putter, and push their inside of foot soccer passing skills
- This is a health lesson on Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
- Throwing and counting are the skills practiced in this Oscar's Garbage Can game
- Tobacco/Smoking
- Students evaluate their own activity levels and plan ways to add more movement into their lives
- Students learn the differences in people's diets from around the world
- Your little minnows dodge "The Net" in this locomotor movement game
- A Jump Rope Fitness activity called Skipping for Aerobics and Dance
- Tooth Fairy Tag is a great game to play during a dental hygiene unit
- Here is the correct way to pass a football
- This running/throwing/catching game will make students eager to "Clean Up Your Room"
- Students use WordArt to prepare anti-drug posters in this Red Ribbon Week idea
- This is a beginning ballet lesson idea
- Here are four steps to a successful overhand throw and a game to practice them with
- This lesson provides throwing instruction and related games
- Students learn about the New Food Pyramid and how to evaluate their Body Mass Index
- "Silent ball" is a fun physical and educational game for math or any subject
- Spongebob Squarepants makes this movement game more participatory
- Students use technology resources here to compare fat, sugar and calorie content of two restaurant meals in graph and table form
- This is an integrated "Warm Up" idea using the Bridges of Portland (or perhaps other bridges)
- "Fitness for Life" reviews the food pyramid and servings chart
- Harry Potter - Quidditch
- Monitoring Your Heart Rate
- This is a "Jin - Gle - Bells" musical hot potato game
- Here is a two-hand touch football game on a basketball court using a tennis ball
- This is an empowering Self Control Quiz for teens
- This portion is on Rock Streaking
- Scooter Basketball Idea
- Power - Strength - Explosion will be the benefit of this multi-joint "Power Clean" weight lifting lesson
- The objective of "Mad Dog Baseball" is to keep the infield and outfield in motion
- Healthy Food Choices
- Students practice throwing and catching a Frisbee, then quickly dressing up, because this is the "Late for School" game
- This lesson introduces Moh's Hardness Scale to test the Hardness of a Rock
- This is a worksheet on the parts of an eye
- This is an outline for an integrated First-Aid Unit
- "Fuzzy Ball" is team handball with soccer and basketball elements
- Mad Dog Kickball
- Here students work on dribbling skills while dancing the cha-cha slide
- This part deals with "Pet Rocks"
- Students role-play about providing medications to poor countries in this Globalization and World Health Unit
- This is a swimming lesson on how to float
- These physical fitness tests measure curl-ups per minute, sit & reach distance, total push-ups, running endurance and BMI
- This is a well-developed lesson on good/bad bacteria and the proper way to wash hands
- This locomotor skills lesson features one foot hopping, jumping with two feet, and balancing like a statue
- Aerobics For Kids
- Frizbee Softball
- Here are three more spatial awareness activities
- "Matball" is indoor baseball using a kickball and mats idea
- This health lesson informs students about careers related to the respiratory, cardiovascular, and skeletal systems
- Defining the Dimensions of Wellness
- Here's a "Dental Health Web Tour" complete with Worksheet
- This blood bank research investigation idea lets science/health students apply classroom knowledge in a real world context
- Here are two tag game ideas involving "Hawks and Eagles" and "Sharks and Sailors"
- This is a simple and very effective blood type compatibility demonstration
- Students evaluate how they spend their time and how to include physical activity into their day
- Puppet Role Playing/Substance Use and Abuse
- "The Skin You're In" educates girls about eating disorders and how to have a positive body image
- This LearntobeHealthy.org "mystery" lesson focuses on the accumulation of tar in the lungs from smoking
- 5th Graders campaign here to prevent obesity and promote healthy school meal choices
- "Ten Apples Up On Top" by Dr. Seuss inspires this self-portrait art and counting project idea
- A lesson to teach how students can use their Bodies to Represent different Objects
- In the "Bound-and-Round" game, students use physical activities to retrieve and round numbers
- Lifetime healthy choice topics are presented in this research project
- Student "frogs" demonstrate proper jumping and landing form in this lesson
- Passball
- Homemade toothpaste makes this dental hygiene lesson hands-on
- This lesson is on proper body positioning and arm movements for running
- "Double Kickball" is twice as fun as kickball
- Here is a fun physics idea for predicting and comparing the bounce of various sports balls
- Pie Eater
- In this "Fitness Tag" game, partners chase each other through exercise zones
- These activities give students passing and kicking practice with a standard playground ball
- This lesson teaches the underhand toss and color recognition
- In this 6-activity lesson, students use locomotor movements while learning their directions (and the electric slide)
- Here you can teach Art Concepts using Rocks
- This is a sequencing relay game
- This is a well-developed lesson on weight room safety
- This game is called "Triple Crown Baseball"
- This fun hands-on lesson teaches students Spanish language and culture as they improve their Baleros skills.
- Here's a good lesson on self-esteem
- Soccer Touch Ball
- Cooperative Games - The Hungry Snake
- Math Tag
- This arc length and area of a sector lesson can be used to calculate calorie percentages in food portions like pizza slices
- Here students "ice skate" with straight, curved and zigzag pathways
- This part is on Native Americans and their Rock Art
- Soccer Tunnel Tag
- This is a stick horse competition relay idea
- The Spread of Disease
- Here's an idea for ABC Freeze Tag that can be used in PE
- Physical Educaiotn/Jumping Rope
- In "Steal the Dinosaur Eggs," students practice teamwork, fair play, and following the rules
- These PK-12 lesson plan ideas on emotions, expressions, and reactions yield altruistic activity in various subject areas and grades
- Students take a "trip to the park" in this applied movement story
- Do Something about... Eating Healthy - Day 5: Super-size Me
- A few quick and easy PE games
- PE Search and Find
- "Chipo's Gift" is a thematic cross-curriculum book unit about an inquisitive mopane worm
- This lesson includes many activities for practicing the skills of jumping and landing
- Geo-spiders are made while discussing conflicts in this Anansi related lesson
- This "Mardi Gras Tokens" agility game motivates students to improve their math and teamwork skills while boosting cardio performance
- This lesson looks at Eye Safety in Labs
- This is a lesson outline on the concept of fitness
- The cues and steps for a gymnastic tripod and headstand are practiced here
- Students learn how to perform a forward gymnastic roll in this lesson
- This lesson teaches how to perform an underhand volleyball serve
- Here are two fun activities that integrate locomotor movements with reading, and listening skills
- Students work in pairs to practice throwing and catching skills here, followed by a game of "Team Handball"
- Cooperative Mini-games
- Throwing and Catching
- "Quick Sand" is a hop-on-spots game
- Is choosing teams causing problems? Here's a brief idea for a solution
- Here are eleven illustrated gymnastics skills
- These great balloon volleyball lesson activities offer plenty of volleying and striking practice
- A PE Kick Ball idea to be used with Math concepts
- The League of Extraordinary Senses: The Role of the 5 Senses in protecting the body
- This is a Spanish language food pyramid (Piramide de Comida) lesson
- This interval relay game takes music to the gym or playground
- Students learn ways foods are marketed towards youth in order to start their own green campaign
- This lesson on Lungs is called the "Breathing Machine"
- Students will choreograph a dance to Langston Hughes' poetry in this lesson idea
- PE Parachute
- "Dream Ring Mayhem" engages student's accuracy with soccer ball punting, kicking, and dribbling
- Teach students about careers in the health field using this lesson
- Positive & Negative Effects of Peer Pressure
- STEAL THE BALL
- Fitness Monopoly
- Healthy Eating Lesson Sequence for Kindergarten: A Critical Literacy Approach
