Subject(s): P.E. & Health Grades(s): Junior High/High School
Games & Relay Races:
- This fun hands-on lesson teaches students Spanish language and culture as they improve their Baleros skills
- Ultimate indoor Frisbee keeps students constantly involved
- “Ghouls and Goblins” is a clever Halloween tag game idea
- “Passball” is a version of kickball, where the ball must be passed to each team member
- “Double Kickball” is twice as fun as kickball
- “Alfonso Ball” is an all-inclusive indoor fitness activity based on baseball
- This cooperative learning game lesson includes Yale Lock Tag and Alaska Ball
- Gettyball is indoor softball utilizing a wrapped-up towel “wombat” and a volleyball
- This “nutty” version of Capture the Flag uses squirrels and hawks
- Here is a two-hand touch football game on a basketball court using a tennis ball
- This “Tennis Ball Reaction Game” could also be titled “Extreme Two-Square”
- Try “Parachute Races” for a unique muscular strength and endurance training activity
- “Fuzzy Ball” is team handball with soccer and basketball elements
Health & Fitness:
- This lesson is called “To Smoke or Not to Smoke”
- Here’s a well-developed “Fitness Monopoly” Game
- This lesson introduces students to the Dimensions of Wellness
- Find out how healthy fast food really is
- A health lesson on Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
- This blood bank research investigation idea lets science/health students apply classroom knowledge in a real world context
- This idea gets students talking about growing up
- By mixing chemicals with random classmates (or abstaining), students see how quickly a disease, like AIDS, can spread
- Power – Strength – Explosion will be the benefit of this multi-joint “Power Clean” weight lifting lesson
- This is a well-developed lesson on weight room safety
- This is a beginning ballet lesson idea
- Lifetime healthy choice topics are presented in this research project
- An impossible “pop quiz” is the perfect beginning for this stress management exercise
- This is a lesson on the male reproductive system
- This is a 10-day Eating Healthy Unit from Do Something, Inc.
- Students learn the benefits of green vegetables and the number of recommended servings
- Students learn about different types of vitamins and how they function in the body
- Students examine their eating habits and learn about a balanced diet
- Students learn the differences in people’s diets from around the world
- Students learn about America’s growing obesity and its relationship to portion size
- Students learn ways foods are marketed towards youth in order to start their own green campaign
- Students learn about the New Food Pyramid and how to evaluate their Body Mass Index
- Students evaluate their own activity levels and plan ways to add more movement into their lives
- Students evaluate how they spend their time and how to include physical activity into their day
- Students plant a garden and/or fix up a community space for physical activity
- This is a mental and emotional health lesson on empowered decision-making
- This lesson incorporates weight training, fitness, nutrition and technology
- Students role-play about providing medications to poor countries in this Globalization and World Health Unit
- This is an outline for an integrated First-Aid Unit
- This excellent 6-week Healthy Lifestyle Diet and Exercise Analysis Health Unit would benefit us all
- Here’s a great lesson on the science of addiction that uses poetry – part of a full curriculum on prescription drug abuse
- This is a health lesson on the effects of tobacco on the body and the diseases linked to tobacco
- This is a simple and very effective blood type compatibility demonstration
- Here are 10 healthy rules for back-to-school success
- The purpose of this obstacle course activity is to perfect student movement with a variety of different equipment
- This is a lesson outline on the concept of fitness
- This is a Spanish language food pyramid (Piramide de Comida) lesson
- “Lessons from the Street” is an introduction to drug education activity
- This lesson teaches the importance of and how to monitor your heart rate during exercise
- These are physical fitness tests
- “Please Don’t!” is the name of the teen suicide prevention photo stories resulting from this valuable health lesson
- In this LearntobeHealth.org activity, teens find out what stress is, how it effects the body, why it happens and steps to cope with it
- Students process “teen stress” here through blogging and by comparing their stressors to those of a literary character
Sports:
- This is a golf lesson for 12th grade
- Use this lesson to teach hockey passing and shooting skills
- “Krazy Kickball”is the title of this lesson
- Teams answer archery questions by hitting T/F targets in this cleverly appropriate quiz game idea
- Here students learn how to bump and set in volleyball
- “King of the Ring” teaches badminton underhanded serving skills
- These lesson activities work on volleying and dribbling skills
- This basketball handling skills lesson develops strength, hand/eye coordination and control
- The basic skills of handball are practiced here through Soccer and Basketball exercises
- This ultimate football game idea gets students used to throwing and catching a football with a defender
Other / Multiple Topics:
- This Harry Potter Quidditch Game is a great way to get students interested in PE!
- Here’s a good lesson on self-esteem (mental health)
- Towel Volleyball is an equipment naming game
- Teach students about careers in the health field using this lesson
- This health lesson informs students about careers related to the respiratory, cardiovascular, and skeletal systems
- Students demonstrate the importance of ergonomics in the workplace by creating a digital photo story here
- This is a lesson on careers involving the respiratory s
Language Arts Connections:
- Students will choreograph a dance to Langston Hughes’ poetry in this lesson idea
- Kinesthetic learning is used in this lesson to build reading comprehension through kickball
- “Thrown a Curve” is a reading comprehension lesson on a book about girls’ sports and pre-teen relationships
Math Connections:
- This absolute value inequalities lesson uses the weight gain formula as an example
- This arc length and area of a sector lesson can be used to calculate calorie percentages in food portions like pizza slices
Music Connections:
- In this “delightfully fun” but challenging lesson, students “Step-Clap-Kick” quarter note/rest rhythms
- Music Theory Basketball is played here
Science Connections:
- This lesson looks at Eye Safety in Labs
- Here’s a physics idea for predicting and comparing the bounce of various sports balls




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