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Grades 5 - 6

Standard 2.1 (Wellness)
Grade Level
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Description
5-6

The lessons are designed to:

  • Develop a basic understanding of asthma and help correct misinformation.
  • Inform students about appropriate actions that can help people with asthma.
  • Provide resources to share with parents and other family members.
5-6
 BAM! Body and Mind provides interactive, educational activities for teachers and students.
5-6
 Lesson plans, games, and other activities to help students learn about the brain and neuroscience. Check out the Kids page and the Teachers page.
5-6
 KidsHealth provides doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. Students can visit the Kids section for information and activities.
5-6
 Find out what schools across the nation are doing to promote good nutrition. Various innovative activities are presented. Check out School-Wide Team Nutrition Fair: Linking Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health, Tasting Your Way to Good Health!, and other activities that can involve the entire school.
6
 Activities related to health and fitness are provided. Scroll down to view the Leader's Guide section which contains posters, activities, a family letter, and more.

Standard 2.2 ( Integrated Skills)
Grade Level
Web Site
Description
5-6
 K-12 lessons developed by Educators for Social Responsibility .
5-6
 iEARN enables young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to engage in collaborative educational projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
5-6
 KidsHealth provides doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. Students can visit the Kids section for information and activities.
5-6
 Many of these activities from the University of Illinois Extension are integrated with other content areas.
6
 C.S. Lewis' (1950) classic novel, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, serves as the focus for this unit on responsibility.

Standard 2.3 (Drugs and Medicines)
Grade Level
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Description
5
 This drug education series from Scholastic and the scientists of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) offers the latest science information on the effects of drugs. Activities
5-6
 Information and suggestions for how to talk children about drugs from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.
5-6
 This particular activity shows that substance abuse education is more effective if it focuses on processes of decision making rather than problems.
6
 Students learn that marijuana causes a decrease in reaction time.
6
 In this New York Times Learning Network lesson plan, students investigate the ways that various addictive drugs interact with the human nervous system.

Standard 2.4 (Human Relationships and Sexuality)
Grade Level
Web Site
Description
5-6
 Students are required to research some information about their family history, record this information and present orally to the class.
6
 In this New York Times Learning Network lesson plan, students learn about federally funded abstinence-only sex education. Then, in groups, students create age-appropriate, informational brochures examining health topics relating to sex.

Standard 2.5 (Motor Skill Development)
Grade Level
Web Site
Description
5-6
 Looking for kids' games? How about rules for playground games, verses for jump-rope rhymes, and much more? Then this is the site for you.
5-6

PE Central's Best Practices Program

PE Central's Best Practices Program is an innovative way to share high quality practices, while simultaneously providing recognition to the dedicated physical educators who have developed them.
5-6

PE Lessons

 This page is dedicated to providing a space for Physical Educators to share lesson ideas.

Standard 2.6 (Fitness)
Grade Level
Web Site
Description
5
 This activity allows students to work together to complete a list of exercises simultaneously.
5-6
 BAM! Body and Mind provides interactive, educational activities for teachers and students.
5-6
 PE Central's Best Practices Program is an innovative way to share high quality practices, while simultaneously providing recognition to the dedicated physical educators who have developed them.
5-6
This page is dedicated to providing a space for Physical Educators to share lesson ideas.
5-6
 VERB, the campaign created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is designed to help kids, ages 9-13, get active and have fun!
6
 Students integrate math and social studies concepts with this fitness activity.

Standards 2.1 - 2.6
Grade Level
Web Site
Description
5-6
 Health and physical education lessons. Subscriber fee involved.