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Right Foot/Left Foot
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In this activity (2nd on the page), learners conduct a series of tests to find out which foot is more dominant. In other words, are they right-footed or left-footed?
Space Stations: Bones of Contention
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In this activity, learners make models representing bones on Earth and bones that have been in space. They discover what happens to bones without proper exercise and nutrition.
Stethoscope
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Make a copy of the first stethoscope with only a cardboard tube! René Laennec invented the first stethoscope in 1819 using an actual paper tube!
Stepping Out: Hop, Skip, Jump
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In this activity, learners explore and experiment how we can use our bodies everyday to get from one place to another.
Get Moving! Active Play Indoors and Outdoors
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In this activity, learners explore the importance of active play.
Pulse of Life: Measure Your Pulse
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In this activity, learners take their own pulse and explore how heart rate is affected by various activities.
Workin' It Out
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In this activity, learners explore how to stay fit the fun way. Learners participate in three physical activities.
Heart to Heart
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In this activity, learners compare ways to measure their heart rates. Learners build their own stethoscopes and learn how exercise affects heart rate.
Stomp High Low
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Learners work together as a group to learn a new physical activity. After working for a few rotations, learners time themselves as part of a contest.
Fitness Factor
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In this online activity, learners partner up to complete several physical exercises and assess their starting fitness level.
Cardiac Hill
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In this outdoor activity linking human health to the environment, learners use their pulse rates as a measure of the effort expended in walking on different slopes.
Drinking Straw Pulse Measurer
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In this health activity, learners create a device so that they not only feel their heartbeat, but also see it, using a straw and some clay.
Screen Time
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This game asks you a series of questions about how much time you spend in front of a screen, not being active.
Right Hand/Left Hand
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In this activity (1st on the page), learners conduct a series of tests to find out which of their hands is more dominant. In other words, are they right-handed or left-handed?
Enhanced Water Taste Test
Learners conduct a "blind" taste-test of several types of enhanced or fitness water drinking water that has commercially added substances like vitamins, sugars, or herbs.
Space Stations: Follow the Bouncing Ball!
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In this activity, learners predict whether a ball on Earth or a ball on the Moon bounces higher when dropped and why.
Protect That BRAIN!: Mr. Egghead
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This activity demonstrates the importance of wearing a helmet to protect the brain. An egg is used to symbolize a head with the shell as the skull and the inside of the egg as the brain.
Space Stations: Beans in Space
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In this activity, learners perform 20 arm curls with cans that simulate the weight of beans on Earth versus the weights of the same number of beans on the Moon and in space.
Pitch, Roll and Yaw: The Three Axes of Rotation
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In this activity (page 87 of the PDF), learners move their bodies to better understand the three axes of rotation: pitch, roll and yaw.
The Pulse is Right
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In this online activity, learners measure their pulse rates and investigate how their pulses change when they engage in different activities.