This section of the Active for Life website offers different physical activities that can be enjoyed by kids of all abilities. The entries are tagged with the skill being used (for example, balance, striking, kicking, volleying, throwing, catching, and dribbling), and the length of the activity is clearly marked (most are 10–15 minutes), as well as the recommended age range.
This website offers hundreds of videos created by child development experts that engage kids with movement and mindfulness. The videos benefit kids’ physical wellness, academic success, and social-emotional health.
PE Central’s at-home physical exercise PDFs contain activities for students to engage both body and mind. Examples include fitness hangman, fitness bingo, and activities to do in a limited space.
This app focuses on helping children with autism by offering interactive exercise videos that promote better fitness and behavior. Features of the app include social narratives, visual supports to help students make the exercise connection, more than 150 exercise videos and the option to create your own, and technology-aided instruction and intervention that engages students and collects data to measure progress. Exercise is shown to reduce problem behaviors and increase on-task behavior, and the combination of visual supports, video, and technology will enable children with autism to succeed in physical activities.
This app has more than 400 videos to help kids practice yoga and other relaxation techniques through movement. The videos are ad-free to make sure kids have a safe and fun time exploring movement.
This app was developed by the American Heart Association to encourage kids to run, jump, and play fun games with a football twist. Motivational tools include collecting coins to get points and unlock NFL gear to customize avatars.
