Students will research various 'fad diets' to determine the macromolecules in abundance and deficit in the diets. Students will create an infographic to display their research and to argue from this evidence if the diet should be used and by whom, and what short and long term effects this diet could have on an individual.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Foam roller exercises are an excellent self-myofascial release technique. Foam rolling improves mobility, posture, and performance in the gym. By including foam rolling exercises in warm-up routines for weight lifting, along with dynamic and/or static stretching, they’ll help loosen and improve your mobility/range of motion.
This resource is a collection of videos showing proper techniques for foam rolling.
This website describes 37 different food journals and gives tips on how to be successful during this process. A food journal is a useful tool for improving health. It is a tool that can be used to track what one eats at every meal. Keeping a food diary allows one to:
Whether you're a beginning exerciser who needs help getting started or someone who wants to add some spice to your fitness routine, our ACE Fit® Exercise Library offers a variety of movements to choose from. Browse through total-body exercises or movements that target more specific areas of the body. Each comes with a detailed description and photos to help ensure proper form.
Meet healthy eating goals one at a time! Use the Start Simple with MyPlate app to pick simple daily food goals, see real-time progress, and earn badges along the way. This easy-to-use app can help you make positive changes. Healthy eating can help you achieve a healthier life overall.
Learn the difference between strength, endurance, and power in this lesson. This lesson can be organized as self-paced for students to enjoy on their own or teachers could use the slide presentation to pace the instruction of this content. Students will find out how body fat impacts both fitness and health, the different types of exercise, and how to create an activity plan.
This is a learning module that will challenge students to develop juggling skills while learning about MyPlate Nutrition! Included are activity logs and printable documents for goal setting.
This resource is informational material that can be used by the teacher to incorporate into their lesson planning. This text defines flexibility, identifies how to build flexibility, explains how much stretching is enough, and covers the benefits of flexibility. This resource includes pictures, important terminology, and review questions.
This is a PowerPoint presentation focusing on physical fitness components. By the end of the PowerPoint, students should be able to list five main fitness components and have a brief understanding of each component.
The MyPlate Plan shows your food group targets – what and how much to eat within your calorie allowance. Your food plan is personalized, based on your age, sex, height, weight, and physical activity level. The MyPlate Plan is also available in Spanish.
This is an interactive webpage allowing students to enter their information with the webpage auto-calculating. Students are then given plans related to the caloric needs of students.
This activity is designed for students to understand the importance of a healthy, active lifestyle. Worksheets that link to PowerPoints for students to complete and make notes are attached. Also attached is a homework sheet that can be used for the section which will test the students' knowledge and understanding of healthy active lifestyles.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
This resource is a template for a high school level student to develop a Personal Exercise Program. It could be used for all courses: Beginning Kinesiology, Advanced Kinesiology, and junior or senior year PE elective class. The template available in this lesson is suitable for the athlete or non-athlete.
This TED-Ed learning activity unpacks muscle fatigue resulting from lifting weights. The first time feels easy, but each lift takes more and more effort until you can’t continue. Inside your arms, the muscles responsible for the lifting have become unable to contract. What’s going on? Christian Moro explains how exactly our muscles operate, and what causes them to become fatigued.
The activity includes a video, multiple choice and open-ended questions, additional resources to dig deeper, and a guided discussion.
This strength training resource provides a week-long lesson plan that includes using free weights and cardiovascular components. The lesson plan includes daily assessments and evaluation for each student.
This free resource from KidsHealth is a fitness video demonstrating several fitness activities. The ideal exercise program combines strength training, aerobic exercise, and flexibility exercises. This resource contains multiple videos to show strength training exercises that are specifically designed to fit into a weight loss plan, along with some tips on how to do each one.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit
This free resource from Open Online Physical Education Network contains a variety of activities, assessments, lesson plans, and planning tools designed to teach kids to learn to love fitness running.
Note: Open Online Physical Education Network is a free resource, but teachers need to create a free account to access the resources available.
This resource from Open Online Physical Education Network is a learning activity demonstrating fitness activities with proper form and attention to safety titled "Tools for Learning FITTness Knowledge". Students will work together to rotate through and complete the FITTness routine. Task cards help students learn and apply the FITT principle while doing the activity.
Note: Open Online Physical Education Network is a free resource, but teachers will need to create a free account to access this resource.
