Students will learn what Western Australia has adopted as their physical fitness activity plan. Students will research the popular ways in which Western Australia exercises and stays in good physical condition. This lesson was developed by Paul Wilhoit as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will identify and execute common skills associated with basketball. Students will also compete in small sided basketball games. This lesson was developed by Garrett Dellinger as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will identify and execute common skills associated with cricket and baseball. This lesson was developed by Garrett Dellinger as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will identify and execute common skills associated with rugby and American football. This lesson was developed by Garrett Dellinger as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will identify and execute common skills associated with soccer. Students will also compete in small sided soccer games. This lesson was developed by Garrett Dellinger as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will identify and demonstrate key skills associated with an international sport of their choice. Students will teach a peer their newly learned skills associated with the international sport of their choice. This lesson was developed by Garrett Dellinger as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will work individually and in groups to visually identify global and domestic sports. This lesson was developed by Garrett Dellinger as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

In this activity, the students will learn offensive and defensive strategies while participating in modified tennis drills to improve consistency, stamia, and footwork.

Students should be able to identify where our bodies get energy and why we need it, explain the difference between the things they do that are active (like riding a bike or walking), and those things that are less active (like playing a video game or watching TV), state why regular physical activity is important for everybody, and identify reasons why they might choose inactive things to do over more active things.

This article discusses how much sleep is enough and tips for getting better sleep.

This resource provides helpful information to guide students in making their own personal fitness plan, including helping them find solutions for their excuses for not exercising.

In this lesson, students learn that bones and muscles must work to maintain or increase strength and endurance. Students will measure the effects of physical stress on the muscles of their hands, collect and record data, and graph results.

This blog post explains how healt related fitness is incorporated into a first grade physical education classroom. It demonstrates how the three levels of fitness are explained as well as the body systems that are involved with daily physical activity.

This lesson plan includes discussion questions and activities that will help students learn more about the important work of the cardiovascular system.

This lesson plan includes discussion questions and activities that will help students identify the behaviors demonstrated by a good sport and incorporate them into their game playing.

In this activity, students demonstrate body awareness when performing dance activities and perform locomotor and non-locomotor skills. The activity is located on pages 28-29 of the pdf.

In this warmup activity students will take part in a command game that will lead to increased heart rate and fitness.

In this lesson students will gain insight into dancing and its benefits. Students will learn how to dance with any type of music.