Becki Ridgway

Elective 6

March 17, 2005

Instructional Activities, Worksheets,

Quizzes and Puzzles

Nutrition

1. Nutrition Crossword Puzzle: This is a crossword puzzle about nutrition. This is a great activity for the students to use as a review of what they have learned on nutrition. http://www.edhelper.com/Nutrition25.htm

2. Carbohydrates: This activity gives you a little reading on carbohydrates and then a short quiz to see what you have gained from the reading. http://www.edhelper.com/ReadingComprehension_29_18.html

3. Food Guide Pyramid: In this activity the students will learn about the food guide pyramid and then end with a little quiz to see what they have learned. http://www.edhelper.com/ReadingComprehension_29_32.html

4. Healthy Food Choices: This activity gives you a reading to learn how to make healthy food choices with your meals throughout the day. Following the reading is a short quiz. http://www.edhelper.com/ReadingComprehension_29_19.html

5. Nutrition Spelling Maze: This activity is a spelling maze with nutrition words. It is a fun activity and something different for the students to do. http://www.edhelper.com/Nutrition40.htm

Fitness

1. Fitness Component Scramble: This activity would be good to use as an entrance or exit slip in your physical education class. It is a short activity to do and you get to unscramble fitness component words that would be taught in class before hand. http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/worksheetgenerator/archive/970002255.html

2. Muscles: This activity gives you an overview of your muscular system. Following the reading part there is a short quiz about what you have gained from the reading. http://www.edhelper.com/ReadingComprehension_29_77.html

3. Muscle Word Seek: Students can use this to reinforce the names of muscles by doing a fun word search. http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=1173

4. Jogging Journal: This is an activity for the students to track their fitness level every time they come to physical education class. This will also show them how they have improved over in class. http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=1171

5. Target Heart Rate: This is a little word scramble based on the vocabulary about target heart rate. This activity is a good way to reinforce the vocabulary the students need to know. http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/worksheetgenerator/archive/973818206.html.