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"Sports Screeners"
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Source site:   PBS TeacherSource

In this lesson students become aware of physical activity and sports in film and television. This activity will encourage youth to become critical movie and TV viewers, by drawing attention to how physical activity and sports for youth is normalized

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Benefits of Physical Activity
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Source site:   Teachers.net

In this lesson students learn the health benefits from physical activity and list the positive effects that effects that exercise can have on mental health.

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Caloric Burning Activities
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Source site:   Utah Education Network, Salt Lake City, UT

In this lesson students will use problem solving, decision making and basic math skills to calculate calories used during different activities

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Choose a Healthy and Active Lifestyle
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Source site:   HealthyChoices.org

Children are introduced to the differences between active and inactive behaviors, and learn that excessive inactivity can lead to an unhealthy life. Children learn the importance of having an active life. “Action Kids and Couch Potato” signs are created and kept for use in a subsequent lesson.

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Health Conscious? Surveying Classmates on Their Attitudes Towards Illness
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Source site:   New York Times

In this lesson, students reflect on and discuss their attitudes toward health and illness. They help to educate each other by researching illnesses in small groups, creating a handbook and writing response papers.

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Here's To Your Healthy Heart
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Source site:   DiscoverySchool.com, Silver Spring, MD

Students will understand the following: 1. the primary controllable and uncontrollable factors that put one at greater risk for developing heart disease 2. how to make lifestyle choices that will encourage good cardiovascular and general health

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Warming Up and Cooling Down
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Source site:   Guilford County Schools, Greensboro, NC

In this lesson students will receive information on how to warm-up before exercising and cool down after. Students will be able to demonstrate how to properly warm-up and cool down as part of an exercise routine.

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Weight Training: Analyzing the Relationship Between Diet, Exercise, and Weight Loss
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In this lesson,students analyze the relationship between exercise and diet in weight control. Students conduct a class-wide survey collecting, compiling, and analyzing data about fitness, weight loss, and body image issues.

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Women and Sports
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Source site:   DiscoverySchool.com, Silver Spring, MD

Students will do the following: 1. Explore how women’s involvement in sports has changed over the past 50 years 2. Research the health benefits of being physically active

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