TeachPhysEd - Benjamin Pirillo

If you are new to teaching Physical Education and would like to see videos  or lesson plans you can check out Mr. Pirillo's webpage, youtube channel and twitter account.  His webpage has a nice section on equipment hacks.  

BioDigital - Human Anatomy

This interactive 3D tool is a very realistic way to look at the anatomy of the human body.  If you are teaching a science or physical education (Exercise Science)  that looks into human anatomy this might be what you are looking for.  You can login through your google account.  To see the website  click here.  Other similar sites I have looked at can be seen on my other posts by clicking here or here

50 Reasons to Exercise

This might be right for your Physical Education class.

Too Much Sugar

If you teach Health, Physical Education or Foods you might want to look at these sites/videos that Richard Byrne posted.  They all deal with sugar and our bodies.  The first one is Rethink Your Drink which is a pdf document dealing with how much sugar is in most drinks and lists alternatives.  To see the website click here.  The next two were videos.  The first is a TED ED lesson called How Sugar Effects the Brain and is embedded below.

Untamed Science offers another similar video on why we crave sugar and is embedded below.

Sugar Stacks is a great site to visualize how much sugar is in what we consume.

To see their website click here.

Baseball Opening Day

With Opening Day of baseball coming up next week, here are a few things you might use in your science or physical education class.

The Exploratorium has the Science of Baseball.  Click here to see this site.

ESPN has Anatomy of a Pitch.  Here you can see how different pitchers throw their pitches.  Click here to see this page. 

Fitness Gram Brochure Project

Here is a project that you might use in your Physical Fitness class in a health unit.  The students will produce a brochure.  Included with this word document is a rubric.  Topics included are: Cardiovascular Endurance, Muscular Strength/Endurance, Flexibility and Body  Composition.  To download the file click here.

The Olympic Diet

If you have been watching CBC to get your winter Olympic fix you will have seen their ASAP science shorts.  Here is one you might use in your health or foods class.

Is This Product Healthy?

The following comes from Mrs. S. on TeachersPayTeachers.  It could be used in a Health class or Foods class.  This lesson has been downloaded over 11,000 times!  If you are not a member of TeachersPayTeachers you should as it is free to register and there are many free items like this there.

Ever had a student ask, "Is this product "healthy?"

This lesson includes everything students should know about reading food labels and gives the formulas to figure out if a food is healthy enough to be in school vending machine (if a school is classified as a "Healthy School" a product must be less than 35% fat end less than 35% sugar, or no more than 15 grams of sugar).

Have fun with this easy to follow lesson that teaches skills students will use for life!!

THIS LESSON IS INCLUDED IN THE BEST HEALTH CURRICULUM: A COMPLETE SEMESTER OF HEALTH LESSON PLANS AND IS ALSO PART OF THE "NUTRITION UNIT." (See links below)

The lesson starts with a 23-slide PowerPoint lesson and follows up with a worksheet where each student will pick a product or label and read it on their own.

28 pages of step-by-step teacher directions follow the PowerPoint and make teaching this lesson easy!

The PowerPoint will teach students how manufacturers may try to deceive consumers and why it's important to know how to discern the information on a label (beware of unrealistic serving sizes, deceptive servings per container, misleading container information, etc). Students will learn how to pick what's worth reading on a food label and how to understand a food label.


To download the Teachers directions in Word click here.  To download the student presentation powerpoint click here.  Mrs. S. link to this on TeachersPayTeachers can be found by clicking  here.

Hockey Fitness

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I am sure that Hockey Fitness could be worked into a fitness unit in Physical Education.

Click here to see section on Hockey Fitness.  If you would like to see the main section on the Science of Hockey, click here.

Ubersense in Physed or coaching

Mr. Nurse showed me an App he was using in analyzing volleyball serves in his Physical Education class this past fall.  I just remembered that app as I thought it would be something good for me to do with my son's swing in baseball.  After looking up some video analysis software I found Ubersense.  It is free for the Iphone and Ipad.  You can see an Itunes preview by clicking here or go to the Ubersense website below.

click here to go  to their site

Here is a link to a Liz Halina's coed Physical Education class where the students used Ubersense to analyse three of their own badminton skills.

Another software App that Mr. Nurse suggests looking at is Coaches Eye. It costs $4.99 and is available by clicking here.