Let's get physically educated

These sheets can be cut up and scattered around for students to find. Working with partners, students will read a determine what activity is being asked from the riddle. While students are moving from clue to clue, they are given different locomotor skills to preform. This can lead to a discussion on what muscles are being used and which activities caused students to use more energy or increase heart rate.

Students are working in groups to determine what happens to a soccer ball when kicked on different surfaces. Students are given the worksheet, pencil and a soccer with their partner. Students are then going to find different surfaces to perform the activities. They then describe what happens to the ball along the different surfaces. This is great as a cross-curricular assignment with Newton's laws of motion within a science class.

In small groups, students will be able to work through various skills that can be attained within a basketball unit. Each sheet can be put up around the gym in a circuit. The students will move around the circuit with their groups keeping score at each station. At the end , the class can determine who got the most points if needed. This is can be used as a culminating activity or at the beginning and end of the unit to see growth.

This is an activity that can be used as a warm up activity or a complete lesson. The students will work through solving the riddles that lead to a type of movement. They are to complete the movement, write the movement and circle which fitness component that it is!

This is an activity that can be used with students grades 6-12. The students are broken into small groups of about 2-4 students. With their groups, they need to work through the riddles to figure out what exercise or activity they are being asked to do. The students then need to perform the activity for the specified amount of time before moving onto the next. The student also have to determine what fitness component is being used during the activity. This is a great group lesson to reinforce fi

This packet helps students to get introduced to the wellness activity of yoga. There are poses that are geared toward strength building. The students are provided with pictures and descriptions of the particular poses and asked to complete a reflection at the end. This can be used as homework or even an individual in class assignment.

This circut can be used within a fitness unit or as a stand alone activity. Have the students get into small groups and post the sheets around the space. Each station has an extra challenge that is a little bit harder. There are various skills within the activity such as volleyball bump/set and basketball dribbling intertwined with fitness skills.

This can be given to students as homework within a fitness unit. This can help reinforce the flexibility component of fitness. Students are able to follow the yoga sequence through direction and pictures to help them through the poses. Students are then to reflect on their experience.

This is a worksheet that breaks down and helps to understand the math involved within a food label. This can help students step by step understand how to determine totals for nutrients within the labels.

This is an activity that can be used as homework within any unit to emphasize proper sportsmanship and behavior within physical education. Students are to find a book or article that highlights good citizenship and character. They will read the book/article and answer the questions about a character within the reading. The students will then create a drawing or collage highlighting the trait shown within the reading.

This worksheet helps students to determine their resting heart rate, maximum heart rate and target heart rate zones.