When teaching, great effort should be made to ensure that all activities are developmentally appropriate and that all students have the opportunity to achieve success. The following guidelines are helpful to remember when planning a successful Health & Fitness Lesson:

Health & Fitness Lesson is:            Rather Than:

All inclusive                                Eliminating
Planned/purposeful                     Just basketball
Health related                        Just game oriented
Academic/Social integration            Just recess

All Lessons are designed to Washington State Standards and Guidelines. The following is a sample of a successful class outline

 

1. Fitness-Related Warm Up: (focus on addressing at least one of the five fitness components

2. Academic Content: (focus is on learning Health-related content)

3. Dessert: (A culminating activity to reinforces fitness, learning and motor skills) 

 

 

 

All “Great Games” must meet the following criteria for eligibility…
1.    Team-Oriented (Cooperative or Competitive - Social Development)
2.    All participants maintain average Heart Rate of 120 or above

*The Following fitness activities were voted best of 2006-2007 by the students of Daniel Bagley Elementary

4-SQUARE CAPTURE THE PIN (competitive)
Equipment Needed: Large playing area with 4 equal sections, colored team jerseys, 12 pins (or cones).

Fitness: Cardio-Respiratory Endurance

Academic Content: Social Skill Development

Motor Skill(s): Dodging, Running 

 

Description: Divide students into 4 equal teams. Each team with start in their designated “home” square (playing area should look much like a large 4-sqaure). On the signal to start, players will attempt to take another team’s pins while also guarding their own 3 pins. Players are always safe in their home square, but they can become frozen in they are tagged in another team’s square. Frozen players can resume play if: 1) a teammate tags them or 2) the teacher calls, “Jail Break”!

CHICKEN TAG (cooperative and competitive)
Equipment Needed: Large playing area, colored chickens and jerseys

Motor Skill(s): Dodging, Running

Description: Teams are selected. One person from each team is chosen to use the chicken first. Chickens can do two things: they can be used to freeze players on other teams, and they can be given to a team member to unfreeze teammates. Teams should work together to try to keep as many players unfrozen as possible.
Sample Lesson Plans

ULTIMATE TAG (cooperative and competitive)
Equipment Needed: Large playing area, 3-4 nerf balls, colored jerseys

Motor Skill(s): Dodging, Running, Throwing

Description: Designate 2 students to start as IT people and the remaining students will be runners. Runners who are tagged by the nerf Frisbee become IT people. It people may not run with the Frisbee in their hand, but rather, they must work cooperatively with their teammates to shorten the throwing distance required. The game is over once all of the participants have been turned into IT people.

GLOBAL GAMES: (cooperative)
Equipment Needed: Various equipment that corresponds to

Motor Skill(s): Several Different Skills    

Description: One student randomly selects an envelope and reads the contents. After a virtual tour to that city/country destination (using www.googleearth.com), students will engage in various activities that highlight traditional sports and/or exercises found in specific regions around the world.
Canada = Hockey
Kenya = Running
Thailand = Sepak Tawraw
Brazil = Soccer

PARACHUTE GAMES (cooperative and competitive)
Equipment Needed: Parachute and participating students.

Motor Skill(s): Several Different Skills

Description: See Parachute Games attached.