PSAHPERD 2018

● HEALTHY CLICKS FOR CLASSROOM: 

○ www.learntobehealthy.org  
○ Fee based online health curriculum  
$300 for 50 accounts (teachers & students) 
● $6 for additional account  
● Units: nutrition, fitness, mental health, substance abuse 
● Webcasts-1 hour supplemental lessons taught w/ experiments and 
exhibits  
○ 130 lesson plans, pre & post tests, all grade levels & cross curricular  
○ Online health log-nutrition & activity with goal setting 
 
● Taking google to the next level: using chrome extensions and add-ons 
○ Web extensions-add to browser to save time & make life easier 
○ Go to webstore on new tab 
■ Wevideo-edit video online & saves to google drive  
■ Class dojo-behavior management, reporting, attendance track 
■ Twisted wave-edit audio files and add effects (free version is 5 min) 
■ Videonotes-take notes right next to a youtube video 
■ Presentation remote-turn your phone into a slideshow remote 
■ Omnibox timer-set a timer and it will go off  
■ Sexy undo close tab-keeps track of all the tabs you close & can search 
■ Announcify-good for students with vision impairment or oral reading 
needs or ESL 
■ Onetab-save up to 95% memory and reduce tab clutter 
■ Lastpass-password management (securely saves passwords) 
■ Voice search-fill in fields with speech by using microphone-nice 
supplement for students who can’t type  
■ Google voice-check voicemail, make a call, send a text  
■ Google translate-translate a website  
■ Screencastify-screen video recorder-would be good for flipped or virtual 
classroom. Good for instructions  
■ Awesome screenshot minus-take a quick screenshot and mark it up 
■ Google keep-post it notes (similar to evernote)  
■ Print friendly & pdf-remove ads, navigation before you print and can save 
pages as pdfs 
■ Share to google classroom-allows you to push web pages to any of your 
classroom classes 
 
 
 
  

● Let’s Have fun in health Class Today-Health Literacy  

○ Lesson plan gifts  
■ Teacher student relationships-spend 2 weeks at the start of the semester 
to do this  
■ Getting to know me w/ flip grid 
■ Your attitude carries over in everyone else's lives 
■ Flipgrid-use with prompts  
■ Happiness vision board  
● Mapping out their happiness  
■ Bell ringer-5 things they like about themselves  
■ Positive self talk 
● Positive thoughts and affirmations  
● Blank flower  
■ Stress management  
● Read info on stress-do a long term-short term health effects on 
gingerbread person  
■ Stress mapping-eustress & distress  
■ Giving your best advice-write script & film 
■ Wellness walk-walk & talk w/ buddy given prompts (stress related) 
■ Mental health-teach empathy before teaching this unit  
● Empathy vs. sympathy  
● Brene brown on empathy  
● Walk a mile in their shoes-10 things about them 
○ Create their own shoes project  
■ Mental health project  
● 1, 2, 3 for art project-rate your level for groupings  
○ 1-stick figures 
○ 2-bubble letters/stars  
○ 3-super artistic  
● Write a story about a character with mental illness  
● Emotional first aid  
■ Tinkle Times-put in bathroom stalls for health related info 
● Get health outside of the classroom  
■ Celebrity presentation-first day of substance abuse   
● List of celebs that have died from overdose or drug use  
○ What do they have in common?  
○ Research about the celeb in groups  
■ Background 
■ How he became a celeb 
■ When/why did he do drugs?  
■ On the day he died what happened 
  

○ Make a tombstone for the celeb  

○ Dress like the celeb-extra credit  
○ Graveyards-by drug category  
■ Know your nutrients  
● Artistic-Superheroes of nutrients & record a song  
● Practical-menu  
● Analytical-write about nutrients as it relates to an item  
■ Top chef for a day   
● Plan meal at school and make at home 
○ Bring in and share  
○ https://HEALTHSMARTVA.org  
○ Reference textbook “Comprehensive Health” 
○ Google drive folder of all materials 
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/0ByWBc6Xa9qbkcG1LMzJlWEx3eXc 
 
● A Guide to surviving middle school P.E. through teaching meaningful 
lessons 
Handout w/ lesson plans  
○ Fantasy Football Lab  
○ Grid system-team field sports  
■ offensive , defensive strategies  
○ Ninja Warrior-fitness  
■ Create stations for a ninja warrior course that include all fitness 
components  
○ Strategies quiz-strategies  
○ Letter to the principal-cross curricular w/ english  
■ Research the benefits of exercise  
■ Students write a letter to the principal to advocate for quality phys. Ed or 
more phys. Ed 
○ Fitness video  
■ Pick an exercise & perform a video w/ modifications and correct form  
○ Recipe card wall  
■ Flavor of the month/week  
■ List 1 healthy food ingredient-write the recipe on a card and star it 
● Mom and dad sign off on it unless it is brough in  
○ Alaskan Pipeline-pvc pipe & golf ball  
 
 
 
● GLOGA 
○ Glow in the dark yoga 
  

○ All lights out 

○ Glow sticks necklaces and bracelets 
○ Music and yoga practice  
 
● Making Elementary Health Class Fun Through Physical Activity 
○ Traveling through the digestive system  
■ Obstacle course to explain the trip of food and nutrients  
● Pick up a nutrient (bean bag) 
● Jump on stability ball (chew) 
● Crawl through tunnel (esophagus) 
● Jump poly spots/log roll through stomach 
● Travel down rope through small intestine  
● Dropo nutrient in bucket 
● Pick up potato, put between legs  
● Jump to toilet bucket  
○ Myplate shopping cart  
■ Noodles and scooters and bean bags  
■ Shop relay race for myplate food groups 
○ Germ attack  
■ Ankle bands for 3-legged race with yarn balls 
● If hit by germ (yarn ball) on leg, do several different exercises 
depending on the # cone you go to  
○ Stick the tick tag 
■ Bucket with yarn balls and 2 small noodles 
■ Tick tagger with yarn ball as tagger and noodle as tweezer  
 
● Skill Based Health Education That Matters To Them 
○ Taking content based standards and applying the skills for behavior change 
○ New PA health and pe standards to roll out soon 
■ These will require new lessons. More student led classrooms  
 
● Spread the Wellness! Strategies and ideas to promote a school-wide 
healthy environment 
○ WSCC MODEL-Whole school community & child  
■ “School is the center of the community” 
○ Teach positive actions-these used to be taught in the home, we need to fill the 
gaps as this is not the case 
■ Manners, common courtesy  
○ Kinesthetic classrooms-get kids up out of their seats & moving  
  

■ Improves cognition. Brain breaks. Blood flow & oxygen (20% restricted 
from original chairs vs. stools/stand) to the brain & alertness 
■ Modify the environment. Standing desks, stability ball chairs (more 
collaborative and positive attitudes resulting from this) 
■ Fosters and increases peer to peer interaction  
■ Easier movement & fewer distractions  
○ Outdoor classroom-green handout with benefits listed 
■ School garden & school trail  
■ Actionforhealthykids.org  
○ Schoolwide ideas 
■ Random acts of kindness RAK-100 RAK’s yellow handout  
● Step 1-pick a card 
● Step 2-make an impact 
● Step 3-post a pic  
■ Have you been kind today? 
● Envelopes with RAK-student and staff culture  
■ Seasonal activity bulletin board 
● Post pics of seasonal activities beyond the classroom  
■ Giving closet-seasonal goodwill for students/families in need  
● Lost and found clothes to be sent here 
■ Pen pals w/ older students  
■ Morning announcements as a means to promote wellness  
○ Community involvement  
■ Family wellness competitions-track steps, activities, nutrition habit, rak, 
healthy recipe  
■ HEALTH TABLE TOPICS (topics to discuss at family dinner) 
● Conron’s Convo Cards 
■ Wellness fair-11th grade wellness leadership class  
 
● AQUATICS  
- Belts, Life Jackets, bricks, resistance gloves (brick relays, pass brick in circle 
while treading)  
 
**not much new information that we do not already do in our aquatics program  
 
● Learn to Love Lead Up Games  
- Presenters: Pine Richland Middle School  
- Resources: ​Packet​ - 38 pages  
- Large group games- quick, fun  
- Soccer ball musical chairs (Louann introduced Hungry Hippos soccer) 
  

- 4 teams - need to get soccer ball from middle and shoot it in your 
own goal. When you make a goal tag your next teammate in. Can be 
continuous.  
 
- Two lines (half class each) stand across from each other, one person picks 
a movement everyone does movement walking into center -->high fives → 
does movement back  
 
● Using Google Applications To Enhance Teacher Effectiveness and 
Efficiency  
1130:1230 
- Dr. Leight, Dr. Brewer, Keri Kulik  
 
4 C’s : Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Creativity  
 
- Google Sites  
- Duo - Like Facetime (video conference)  
- Blogger - “Web-Log”  
- Voice- Pick a phone number and can call and text on it without people 
knowing your real phone number. It will ring/ notify your real phone  
 
**An attendee is going to look up an extension about blocking hangouts, he said his 
school has a way to do it. (Impero)  
 
- Google Scholar​ - Research platform with scholarly articles with citations 
included 
 
- Google News  
- Google Keep  
- Google Certifications (educator 1, educator 2, trainer , innovator ) 10$ for level 1 
and level 2 certs  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

● Let’s Talk About Sex 

- sexetc.org 
- Flash Curriculum  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
● SPICE UP YOUR HEALTH CLASS  
 
RESOURCES:​ ​goo.gl/dFz465 
 
○ Lynn Lechleitner & Jessica Martin : Cornwall Lebanon school district  
 
@ccmsPE @missmartincchs #innovateHPE #falconPE 
 
- Everyone fills out a colored index cards( 5 diff color cards in whole class) They answer 3 
questions on it and put their name on the other side. Walk around find someone with 
same color card→ Introduce yourself → Switch cards → find new person with same color 
card and take on new persona of the card you have → do this several times. Eventually 
stop and form group with everyone with the same color and find whose card you have 
and introduce them to the group.  
 
- Post-it notes  
“I like it when a teacher…..” 
“I don’t like it when a teacher…..”  
 
- Plickers  
- Plickers.com  
  

- Need to download the app  

- Formative Assessment  
- Turn the plicker to match the answer the student wants  
 
- Notice, wonder , act... with picture posted on the board (used a bullying picture)  
 
30 seconds to jot down what you notice  
30 seconds to jot down what you wonder 
30 seconds to write down how you would act 
 
*Can go into a think pair share with their thoughts  
 
- Nearpod  
- https://nearpod.com/  
- Interactive lesson tool  
- Can take existing presentations and add them to nearpod  
 
- Healthy Selfies 
- Take a selfie of them doing something healthy  
 
- Relate music to the curriculum  
- Book- “​ I like myself”​ - elem geared book but read it before we do relaxation  
- Movie - “Inside Out”  
- Walk and talks to discuss topics  
- http://aevidum.com/cms/​ - “I got your back” - Suicide prevention website  
- Dove self esteem project  
 
 
 
● BOXING 101  
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lOCILvTqjHLdDZGQFRLhKU6Cfg6ezujI/view?usp=
sharing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

● ADVENTURE EDUCATION: Problem Solving for Success 

 
https://twitter.com/AdventureEdGuy 
 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzNKXdBkHSqe6UqaBXwObzg/videos?view_as=s
ubscriber&app=desktop 
 
Mark Friedrich - Youtube channel - Mark Friedrich AdventureEd Guy 
○ “Challenge by Choice”  
○ He will put the video from today on his youtube channel 
■ Bucket challenges, slap hands to 21 or A-Z challenge  
■ Partner Intertwined ropes on wrists challenge  
■ Point at numbers on page challenge  
■ Hands on a ring challenge 
■ Blocks challenges (from dollar store) (finger to finger hold the block, team 
build the blocks up high)  
○ Can email him for more resources  
 
 
● INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES FOR HEALTH 
www.menti.com​ = live polling/ results = student login for code 
www.Mentimeter.com ​= Teacher log in  
Padlet.com = online post-it note discussion board  
Flipgrid.com = Video  
 
 
 
 
EXTRAS  
 
Open Phys. ED : ​https://twitter.com/OPENPhysEd 
​https://t.co/Xtgq550CDa 
 
Dave Schmidt (north allegheny) personal notes: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oL7c2PdSIHlDwdt-dbXoWEQx5y8BFPAXNQfC4R-p
iIc/edit 
 
 
 
  

 
 
Renee Lentz - Net Generation  
  

Nicole: 
It was nice to meet you at the PSAPHRED conference! 
  
Below are the details we discussed over the weekend. Complete the registration and you'll be eligible to 
receive: 
•  Free equipment package 
•  PE Tennis Curriculum 
•  Free in-service training for all your teachers. 
  
Here is a Step-by -step guide to assist you in completing the registration. 
​Net Generation Step by Step Registration - Teachers
 
Net Generation registration consists of: 
Completing teacher profile (5 minutes). Be sure to use your school email address. 
Completing the Safe Sport online course (30 minutes) 
  
As a PE teacher you are exempt from the NCSI Background Check. So skip this step and: 
Completing the NCSI Exempt Safe Play Affirmation Form (attached below).  
Completing the Net Generation School District Acknowledgement form (attached below). Please note: a 
district representative or your school principal must sign this document. 
  
Finally: 
Adding their respective Tennis in PE unit in the Program Management Center. (5 minutes) 
  
Teacher Safe Play Affirmation 
  
District Acknowledgement Form 
  
To receive the FREE schools equipment package, a School Partner Agreement needs to be signed by a 
school representative and your Community Partner. (Attached below) 
If you have a Community Partner in mind, please let me know. I can reach out to them and have them sign 
the agreement. If you don’t have one Cathy Shaak (shaak@ms.usta.com ) will be able to assist you in 
finding a partner. 
  
School Partner Agreement 
  
We thank you for your part in our goal of growing the game of tennis. If you have any questions please feel 
free to contact me or Cathy. 
  
Renee 
  
  
Renee Lentz 
School Tennis/Youth Play Coordinator 
United States Tennis Association/Middle States 
Cell: 610-554-1529 
Middle States School Tennis