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Crunch Time
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In this quick and easy activity and/or demonstration, learners use two empty 2-liter bottles and hot tap water to illustrate the effect of heat on pressure.
Healthy Choices: A Family A-Fair
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Learners and their families celebrate and recognize the importance of making healthy choices every day by participating in a health fair.
Endurance: How Many Can You Do in a Row?
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Combine math and exercise with this activity. Learners count how many times in a row they can skip rope or throw and catch a ball.
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.
Get Moving! Active Play Indoors and Outdoors
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In this activity, learners explore the importance of active play.
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.
Work Up An Appetite
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In this activity, learners participate in fun movement activities while playing on a giant game board. Use this activity to get learners involved in physical activity.
Reaction Time
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In this activity, learners explore reaction time and challenge themselves to improve their coordination. Do you want to move faster? Catch that ball that you never seem to see in time?
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!
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.
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.
Olympic Track Meet
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In this activity, learners discover how exercise helps keep the body healthy. Learners increase their heart rates by running and understand how running fast versus walking affects their pulse rates.
Line Up: Using Math To Stand In Line
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Put math of measurement into lining up — and make waiting in line fun. Choose a size characteristic that learners can physically compare, such as foot length or hair length.
Sock It To Me
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In this activity, learners discover how sweating makes us feel cooler. Learners put on one damp sock and one dry sock and sit in front of a fan.
Good Stress
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In this activity about physical stress (page 28 of PDF), learners discover that muscles and bones need to work to stay strong.
Curve Control
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In this online game, learners must keep their snowboarding racer in the middle of the course without veering off track or hitting obstacles.
How Active Are You?
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In this activity, learners explore what is and is not active play and how it contributes to a healthy body and mind. Making active play a routine part of every day is a key concept of the experience.
Do Sweat It!
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In this activity, learners explore why humans sweat. Learners compare the effects of heat on a balloon filled with air and a balloon filled water.
Ins and Outs of Respiration: Determine your Respiratory Rate
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Learners will determine their respiratory rate and explore the factors that affect breathing rate by filling out and using the Respiratory Chart provided in the lesson.
Throw Your Weight Around
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During this activity, learners take part in a variety of tasks which involve moving and balancing different body parts.