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

Art Connections:

• Here’s a Craft idea to create neat Juggling Balls for use in PE!

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