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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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Anne Frank: Movement -- Isometric Exercises
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Source site:   Utah Education Network, Salt Lake City, UT

In this lesson students learn that proper exercise and muscle tone are essential to physical health and mental well being.

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Baseball's steroid test program: Fair or foul?
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Source site:   USA Today, McLean, VA

In this lesson about steroid use in sports students demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

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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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Cultuture and Obesity -- Comtemporary Studies
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Source site:   DiscoverySchool.com, Silver Spring, MD

In this lesson students will: 1. learn how culture influences body perception; 2. examine prejudices toward obese people; and 3. examine their own feelings about their bodies.

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Extreme Measures
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Source site:   DiscoverySchool.com, Silver Spring, MD

As a result of this lesson, students will be able to: 1. Identify specific physical and emotional characteristics within themselves and others. 2. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of personal diet and exercise

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Fit to Play?: Evaluating Which Student Athletes May Be at Risk for Sports-Related Injuries
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Source site:   The New York Times

In this lesson, students research certain sports-related injuries and who may be at risk for these conditions. They then synthesize their knowledge by collectively developing a comprehensive medical history form that asks potential athletes questions to determine if they are at risk for such conditions.

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Foul Ball: Educating Youth on the Dangers of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports
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Game, Set, Match: Examining Connections Between Sports Equipment and Injury Prevention
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In this lesson, students discuss the equipment necessary for the development and protection of athletes, then create educational brochures about how to prevent sports injuries. For homework, they choose one sports injury and create diagrams of its effect on the human body and the mechanics of the technology (if any) used to treat it.

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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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High Performance: Sports
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Source site:   DiscoverySchool.com, Silver Spring, MD

Students will be able to discuss and write about how their game or sport affects a person mentally, physically and socially (mind, body and spirit).

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Is There a Doctor in the House? Evaluating Teens' Sources of Health-Related Information
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Source site:   The New York Times

In this lesson, students research the answers to their own health-related questions, and evaluate the various sources from which this information comes.

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Making a Sandwich
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Source site:   Educator's Reference Desk, Syracuse, NY

This lesson is designed to help Special Needs students in self-contained classroom learn the basic life skills of making a sandwich. Self-care, self-direction, and home skills will be enforced in the lesson.

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Muscles in Motion
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Source site:   DiscoverySchool.com, Silver Spring, MD

In this lesson students will understand that different muscles are used to perform different body motions. The lesson provides an oppotunity for students to think critically about physical activity and health.

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My Favorite Bug
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In this lesson for early childhood students they have an opportunity to experience new foods and try tasting things they may never have thought of eating.

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Performance Poppers: Exploring How Far Athletes Will Go to Be the Best in Their Sport
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In this lesson, students examine the controversies surrounding the use of performance-enhancing supplements in sports by interviewing athletes and writing feature articles that compare the skills required to compete in different sports.

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Performance Poppers: Exploring How Far Athletes Will Go to Be the Best in Their Sport
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In this lesson, students examine the controversies surrounding the use of performance-enhancing supplements in sports by interviewing athletes and writing feature articles that compare the skills required to compete in different sports.

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Sports Participation
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This lesson for middle-school students focuses on physical education. Students learn where to find statistical data regarding sports participation. They use the statistical data to write reports.

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Sports Safety Pamphlets
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Students create posters highlighting sports safety tips. Students study sports safety tips, create posters illustrating sports safety tips, work together in cooperative groups.

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Sports Safety Posters
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Students create posters highlighting sports safety tips. Students study sports safety tips, create posters illustrating sports safety tips, work together in cooperative groups.

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Tragedy on the Field: Exploring Health Risks and Risk Prevention in Sports
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In this lesson, students explore sports-related health risks and develop school policies on these issues, rewriting current school policy to reflect their ideas. They then conduct “field research” to discover how these risks are addressed in various sports within their school’s athletic department.

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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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When Building Up Leads to Breaking Down: Understanding the Dangers of Steroids: A Science and Health Lesson
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In this lesson, students examine where one develops his or her views about health and ways in which teen-agers exhibit these influences, focusing particularly on the rising trend of anabolic steroid use in teen-age girls. Students then participate in either developing and analyzing a survey of the student body regarding health and views of fitness or researching and designing an informational pamphlet containing information regarding steroid use and its dangerous effects, both which will be distributed to the student body.

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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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