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find physical education activities, or lesson plans, that teach
students about their heart or the cardiovascular system.
Here’s
to Your Healthy Heart
This site features a comprehensive lesson plan where students
will be able to learn about the risks of heart disease as well
as how to make choices that encourages good cardiovascular health.
The lesson plan uses questionnaires and physical tests to learn
about each student’s health. Students are given worksheets
to keep track of what they eat throughout the week. Although this
activity is not directly a physical education activity, I think
that it is a very useful tool in that it provides students with
concrete evidence about how the choices they make affects their
bodies.
Cardiovascular
Fitness
From the A
to Z Teacher Stuff website, this activity solely focuses on
educating students about the importance of cardiovascular fitness
and how they can implement it into their daily lives.
Pulsating
In this lesson, will show how heart rate can increase or decrease
through activity.
Energy
Tag
In this lesson, students will be able to run around and chase
each other and will learn about their heart, blood flow and how
oxygen plays a part of the entire process.
Fitness
Monopoly
This lesson plan provides different activities in order to learn
about cardiovascular fitness.
Nutrition:
How Much Should Kids Eat?
"A helpful way to remember the food group servings is to
think of the Pyramid as an address. Just start at the Milk Group
and work your way down. If you're between 4 and 8 years old, the
address is 3-2-3-2-6. The address helps you remember the number
of servings you need from each food group every day." You
will need the Flash player.
Even though, physical fitness plays a large part in being healthy,
being healthy also incorporates a good nutritional diet. I have
included a links below that have activities in learning about
nutrition.
Nutrition
Calendar
This site might provide some thematic ideas for activities in
the classroom.
Tasting
Survey
As a child, I was reluctant to try new foods, especially those
that were considered good for you. However, the first step to
eating healthy is to try different kinds of food, and finding
ones that you may like. This activity will encourage students
to open their diets up to new things. As my grandmother would
say, “If you don’t try it, how do you know you don’t
like it?”
Food
For Heart Challenge
This activity will teach students about foods that are good for
the heart, while using basic motor skills.
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