Physical Education: Movement Science, the Physiology of Fitness, and Documented Sport History

Free Movement Video Library — Curated by Grade Band

Cosmic Kids Yoga

Yoga adventures through storytelling — perfect for K-3. Builds flexibility, balance, and focus. YouTube channel: Cosmic Kids Yoga

GoNoodle Brain Breaks

Teacher-approved movement breaks, dance, and mindfulness. Ideal for daily 5-minute movement sessions. YouTube channel: GoNoodle

PE With Joe — Kids Workout

Joe Wicks (The Body Coach TV) created these 20-minute at-home PE workouts during COVID lockdown — used by millions of families worldwide. Grade K-5.

Grade Band: K-3 — My Moving Body

Name 5 ways your body can move:

1. ______________ 2. ______________ 3. ______________ 4. ______________ 5. ______________

Which movement makes your heart beat fastest? _______________

How do you know your heart is beating faster? _______________________________________________

Put one hand on your chest. Count your heartbeats for 15 seconds while sitting still: _______ beats

Now jump up and down for 30 seconds. Count your heartbeats for 15 seconds: _______ beats

What happened to your heart rate? _______ Why do you think that is? _______________________________________________

Name one sport, game, or movement tradition in your family or community: _______________

Who taught it to you, or where did you learn it? _______________________________________________

What makes it fun or challenging? _______________________________________________

Jesse Owens ran so fast at the 1936 Olympics that he won four gold medals. A man named Luz Long — a German athlete — befriended Jesse Owens during the competition, even though their countries had very different ideas about race. Jesse Owens later said Long was one of his greatest friends. What does this documented story tell you about what sports can do that politics sometimes cannot?

Grade Band: 4-7 — The Science of Movement and Documented Sport History

Calculate your target heart rate zone:

Your age: _______    Maximum heart rate: 220 - _______ = _______

Lower end of target zone (50%): _______ x 0.50 = _______ bpm

Upper end of target zone (85%): _______ x 0.85 = _______ bpm

Your target zone: _______ to _______ bpm

Take your pulse for 15 seconds immediately after jumping jacks for 1 minute. Multiply by 4 = _______ bpm. Were you in your target zone? _______

Which component do you want to improve most, and why? _______________________________________________

When MLB integration happened in 1947 (Jackie Robinson), it was called progress. But the Negro Leagues, which had been Black-owned and Black-operated institutions, declined and eventually collapsed as their best players were recruited away. What does this documented history tell you about the difference between individual opportunity and institutional preservation?

Capoeira uses music, movement, and community practice to preserve a martial tradition under conditions where that tradition was actively suppressed. Name one specific element of Capoeira's design (the use of music, the continuous flow between fighter and dancer, the circle of practitioners called the roda) that made it effective as a documented form of concealment:

What does Capoeira's survival document about what physical and cultural practice can preserve that written documents cannot? _______________________________________________

Grade Band: 8-12 — Exercise Physiology, Sport and Politics, and Personal Fitness Design

Match each physical activity to its primary energy system:

The IOC (International Olympic Committee) rules at the time prohibited "political demonstrations" during the Games. Apply the Four Questions to the photograph of Smith and Carlos:

Q1 — Who made this gesture, and what was their documented position (as athletes, as Black Americans in 1968)? _______________________________________________

Q2 — When did it happen, and what specific events in 1968 provide context? _______________________________________________

Q3 — What does the gesture specifically document? (Do not say "protest" without naming what specific conditions they were protesting) _______________________________________________

Q4 — Why does this documented moment matter, and what has changed and not changed since 1968? _______________________________________________

Using the FITT principle (Frequency, Intensity, Time, Type) and the five components of fitness, design a 6-week program with a specific, documented goal:

My specific fitness goal: _______________________________________________

Current baseline (honest self-assessment): _______________________________________________

How I will measure progress at Week 6: _______________________________________________

The principle of progressive overload states that the body must be increasingly challenged to continue improving. How does your 6-week program apply this principle? _______________________________________________

Total minutes of moderate + vigorous activity this week: _______    CDC recommendation: 150-300 min/week (adults) or 60 min/day (youth). Did I meet the recommendation? _______

Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem in 2016. Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in 1968. Muhammad Ali refused induction into the US Army in 1967 (documented statement: "No Viet Cong ever called me n-----"). All three athletes used documented sport as a platform for documented political expression. All three faced documented professional consequences. Using the Four Questions framework: choose one of these three athletes, identify one specific documented condition they were protesting, and make a specific claim about whether the documented response to their protest was proportional to the documented harm they were identifying. Use at least two documented facts: