3rd Grade Physical Education Lesson

In yoga, the Yamas and Niyamas are a moral code of conduct—a guideline on how to live. Together the Yamas and Niyamas help us make careful decisions about how to think, speak, and behave. This foundational thinking prepares children to form healthy relationships with themselves and others.

Yamas include five (5) guidelines that support how we become a good friend to others, the world, and ourselves. Niyamas describe the principles of being a good person. Through them, we build character to us along our path to becoming who we know we truly can be. We learn mindfulness and self-discipline so we can be good citizens in the world.

These lessons plans can be used as a complete yoga class following the FGKY teaching methodology, or can be used in the home, easily adapted for the school classroom or clinical settings.

Using this 10-lesson unit, adults  (parent, teacher, or clinician) can facilitate conversations, games, activities, and yoga experiences that give children concrete information about each of the Yamas and Niyamas. Each lesson has a beautifully illustrated yoga sequence, breathing/meditation exercises, arts and crafts projects, and instruction on leading a class!

Each of the 10 lessons introduces you to one of the Yamas or Niyamas and how to teach it to children ages 7-11, including:

• group work or activity with facilitated questions and discussions

• breathing exercises, meditations and guided relaxations you can read outloud

• beautifully illustrated yoga pose sequences

• art projects with instructions for children to express themselves

Also included is:

• 35 vividly illustrated yoga poses—including six (6) never-before-released—that can be used in a number of ways, such as self-teaching and memory games

• Sun Salutation poster complete with poem and poses

The Yamas & Niyamas: Successful Relationships with Self & Others (ages 7-11) comprehensive lesson plan contains 10 units and 48 pages. It is a PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper. The lesson unit helps children learn the concepts of the yoga philosophy, the context for the Yamas and Niyamas in everyday life, and how to incorporate these values at school, in sports, and at home.

How can kids benefit from learning about the yamas and niyamas? Our founder Lara Hocheiser discusses how to apply the principles of yamas and niyamas to children ages 7-11 in Yamas and Niyamas Webinar for Kids.

How to Print

After you download your PDF product, you may view it on any device. If you choose to print to paper, you can open the document in a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat and print at your convenience. We recommended that you print in color!

For best results, print at “Fit” or "Fit to page” at High Quality.

Putting the pages into sheet protectors and a binder or folder will preserve it for plenty of uses!

Since printers vary widely, we strongly recommend that you use your Print Preview feature to see the results before printing.

This bundle includes year long health notes that are adapted. Students can fill in the blanks, circle the correct answers, and fill in true/false answers in the following 17 packets below. Each packet includes notes and review. Students can complete the review independently or with help.

These adapted health notes and review cover the following topics:

Mental and Emotional Health: Mental and emotional health - the different parts of health, total health, physical health, mental and emotional health, family and social health, health goals, risky behavior, healthful behaviors, life skills - healthful actions to learn and improve and maintain health, and practicing healthful behaviors. This product provides information that is adapted from the book that is more appealing and meets your student's individual learning needs.

Character: Showing good character, personality - what is it made up of? - how you look, feel, act, and think. Personality is influenced by heredity, emotions, strengths and weaknesses, and values. Self-respect, having good character traits - character, trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. Kinds of decisions - right decisions vs. wrong decisions and influencing of making decisions. What to say to peers when in a situation where the wrong situation could made and who to talk to about it.

Expressing Emotions and a Healthy Self Concept: Healthful self concept, actions for a healthful self concept, showing good character and how to do that, making responsible decisions, choosing actions for a healthy mind, practice life skills, setting health goals, practicing healthful behaviors, expressing emotions - fear, caring, joy, grief.

Stress: Dealing with stress - stress, stressor, and attitude towards stress - way of thinking, acting, and feeling. Body's reaction to stress - heart beating fast, muscles getting tense, breathing faster, hands getting moist, and mouth getting dry. Ways to manage stress - identify the signs of stress, identify the causes of stress, do something about the causes of stress, and take action to reduce the harmful effects of stress.

Relationships: Respect, examples of showing respect, what is respect?, what is a relationship? - the different kinds of relationships between acquaintances, friends, close friends, and best friends, using good communication skills, communicating, communicating in a healthful way, using self-control, and reasons to maintain self-control

Anger: Managing anger and how to manage it, feelings that lead to anger, avoid fighting, staying calm, using self-control, talking about conflict, ways to settle conflict, agreeing on ways to settle conflict, and mediation.

Families: Being close to family members, the different kinds of families, how family influences your health, how families work together, adjusting together within your family, separation, and divorce within a family, and when families grow larger.

Friendship: How true friends act, friends, peers, what is a tree friend, using resistance skills, saying no, how to say no and stand your ground, resisting peer pressure, the 5 steps for using resistance skills - say no, give your reasons for saying no, match your behavior to your words, ask an adult for your help if you need it, and how do we make friends.

Life Cycle: heredity, hormones, factors that affect growth, environment, life cycle and what happens at each stage - infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and death.

Nutrients: nutrients, proteins, carbohydrates, fat, saturated fat, unsaturated fat, water, vitamins, minerals, different types of vitamins - A, B1, B2, B12, C, & D, what they do, and the food sources they come from, the types of minerals - calcium, potassium, iron, phosphorous, sodium, and zinc, and what they do, and food sources they come from, and dietary guidelines - how to prepare food correctly, what foods to limit, and eat more of.

Dental, Ear, and Eye Health: your healthcare team - parents/guardians, doctor, dentist, etc., your eyes - vision difficulties - nearsighted and farsighted, how to take care of your eyes, the parts of your eyes - iris, pupil, lens, retina, optic nerve, hearing loss, how to protect your ears, hearing aids, cochlear implants, American Sign Language, the parts of the ears - ear canal, ear drum, cochlear, and auditory nerve, your teeth - primary and permanent teeth, kinds of teeth - incisors, bicuspids, cuspids, and molars, caring for your teeth - dental plaque, cavity, and fluoride.

Safety: vocabulary and tips on how to stay safe in our environment are reviewed in this product, what to do to stay safe at home and school, how to prevent falls, injuries, accidents, violence, staying safe at school, fire safety at home, fire safety at school, staying safe indoors and outdoors, staying safe when walking, swimming, in a vehicle - car or school bus, staying safe on a bicycle, the importance of wearing a helmet, staying safe from strangers, school and community safety, safe touch, unsafe touch, what a victim is, what recovery is, and what weapons are.

Emergency Situations: emergencies, first aid, first aid kit, what is in a first aid kit, infection, universal precautions, what to do for small cuts, deep cuts, scrapes, and nosebleeds, how to handle sprains, strains, and burns, how to help someone who is choking, and rashes from plants, This product includes notes, vocabulary review - fill in the blanks, true/false questions, and short answer questions.

Drugs: drugs, medicine, prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs, rules for taking medicine safely, tamper resistant seal, expiration date, side effects, taking medicine, drug abuse, drug misuse, alcohol, depressant, alcoholism, how alcohol harms physical health and what areas are impacted, alcohol and how it harms emotional and mental health, problem drinking, reasons to resist alcohol, nicotine, stimulant, tar, secondhand smoke, smokeless tobacco, reasons to avoid tobacco, marijuana, short-term effects and long-term effects of marijuana, stimulants - amphetamines, cocaine, ecstasy, and depressants, inhalants, steroids, and using resistance skills. This product includes notes, vocabulary review - fill in the blanks, true/false questions, and short answer questions.

Diseases: kinds of pathogens - disease, communicable disease, pathogen, where pathogens get into the body, bacteria, fungi, viruses, protists, signs and symptoms of disease - symptom, fever, swollen lymph nodes, coughing, treading diseases - treatment of disease, treating bacterial diseases, viral diseases, fungal diseases, diabetes - type 1 and type 2, allergies, what causes allergies, reactions to allergies, asthma, ways to reduce asthma attacks, heart disease, veins, arteries, how to reduce your risk of heart disease, heart attack, warning signs of heart attack, cancer - skin, lung, and colon cancer, ways to reduce cancer.

Budgeting: Managing money - basic expenses, other purchases, saving money, writing a check, why we use checks, where we bring checks, banks, clients of a bank, who works at a bank - bank teller, using an ATM, opening and using a bank account, writing a check - examples, writing out a check, using a credit card, spending time wisely on homework, physical activity, interests, friends and family, and time alone, healthful entertainment, community health, careers and examples of careers, places you can go for health care - home, school, doctor's office, mental health centers, community health departments, health clinics, and hospitals - inpatient and outpatient.

Pollution: Environment, natural resources, pollution, types of pollution - land, air, and water pollution, sanitary landfills, ways to reduce air pollution - ozone, smog, and acid rain, algae/red tides, ways to reduce air pollution, what things you should avoid that can harm the environment, how to reduce pollution, reducing water pollution, conserving water, ways to conserve water, recycle, reduce, and reuse, saving energy - solar panels, wind turbines, and how to save energy at home. Students are provided with notes on each of the above topics. Students will answer multiple choice comprehension questions and short answer comprehension questions independently or with support.

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In yoga, the Yamas & Niyamas are a moral code of conduct, a guideline for how to live. Together, the Yamas & Niyamas help us to make careful decisions about how to think, speak, and behave. This foundational thinking prepares children to form healthy relationships with themselves and others.

This bundle includes two (2) lesson units:

1. Yamas & Niyamas Teen Unit is 47-page PDF download directed at teenagers
2. Yamas & Niyamas Kid Unit is a 48-page PDF download directed at kids ages 7-11

Both units are a PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper.

This bundle contains twenty (20) lesson plans that can be used as a yoga class series, or easily incorporated into the school classroom. Adults can facilitate conversations, games, activities, and yoga experiences that give children concrete information about each of the Yamas & Niyamas.  

Each lesson plan breaks down one of the Yamas or Niyamas and includes; introduction to that specific core value, a discussion guide, small group work or activity, breathing exercises and yoga poses to challenge and engage children.

How can kids benefit from learning about the yamas and niyamas? Our founder Lara Hocheiser discusses how to apply the principles of yamas and niyamas to children ages 7-11 in Yamas and Niyamas Webinar for Kids.

How to Print

After you download your PDF product, you may view it on any device. If you choose to print to paper, you can open the document in a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat and print at your convenience. We recommended that you print in color!

For best results, print at “Fit” or "Fit to page” at High Quality.

Putting the pages into sheet protectors and a binder or folder will preserve it for plenty of uses!

Since printers vary widely, we strongly recommend that you use your Print Preview feature to see the results before printing.

Teachers tell me they can't integrate yoga and mindfulness for two reasons: They don't know how and they don't have time. I hear that 100%.

This product is made to help you SAVE time, but first, you have to invest your time. If you spend ten minutes a day, 3 times a week in September and October, by November you only spend 5 minutes, and by January kids are doing this all by themselves. You can learn it together and then you ALL get the skills! Imagine that! Imagine the time you will save not micro-managing behavior.

A colleague and first-grade teacher name Nicole did just as I described above and her class was lightyears more manageable by mid-year than the other groups. People would comment about how quietly they walked in the hallway and how quickly they transitioned from activity to activity. She invested the time and was paid back in dividends. I developed this product to help others share in Nicole's success.

Together, we can use yoga and mindfulness to learn about and take care of our bodies.

Social-emotional learning and self-awareness can be learned using this product. Think of the responsible decisions children can begin to make when we help them connect the dots inward and outward.

Commit to this lesson unit to help your students become more aware of their bodies as you guide them to make mindful connections between how body parts may feel and how can we care for ourselves. Explore ten (10) key body parts and how we can use body awareness to learn about our bodies and emotions while gaining valuable exercise. Each body part has accompanying yoga poses, mindful activities, and facilitated discussion prompts.

The Empower and Calm Teacher Bundle is made for educators, parents, and anyone doing yoga with children!

Give your students the tools to exercise and check-in with their mind and body.

Introducing the Empower and Calm Yoga Bundle, aimed at getting kids moving while learning about self-awareness and boosting self-esteem. 

This bundle includes three (3) yoga units and two (2) yoga card decks geared at empowering, energizing, and strengthening our bodies and minds. 

In this bundle you will get:

• My Body and Caring for Myself: comprehensive Teacher’s Manual and accompanying Student Workbook aimed at developing self-awareness while strengthening our bodies.
• Empowerment Sequence Yoga Cards and Lesson Plans: three lesson plans and a yoga card deck to feel empowered and help children develop a positive self-image. (Our most popular lesson plan ever!!)
• Time for Me: Calming Yoga Cards: calming yoga card deck to encourage children to slow down and manage big emotions. (Fewer words, more calm!)

Lesson Plans for Educators

My Body and Caring for Myself:

The Student workbook can be printed for all of your students, providing self-reflection questions, yoga poses, and meditations for each of 10 body parts.

The teacher's guide assists in facilitating deeper discussions and gives tips for knowing when to move on, and ways to expand the material.

The glossary gives instructions for every pose and meditation.

The slideshow can be used as a visual with basic talking points for you to guide your students with ease from the SMARTBOARD.

Empowerment:

Helping with the back to school blues, challenge your students to strengthen their self-esteem and bodies at once, while facilitating nuanced discussions and meditations.

Time For Me Cards

With fewer words and easy-to-use illustrated yoga poses, children can do relaxing poses to handle any stressor. Provide a place where children are welcome to use these during class, and help them become self-sufficient.

Our yoga lesson plans give the tools to facilitate conversations, games, activities, and yoga experiences to kids of all ages. Use our beautifully-illustrated yoga cards as a visual aid to teach children the yoga poses. Each yoga pose and activity have how-to instruction, written for children. 

With this bundle, children will gain the benefits of yoga and mindfulness while learning about the importance of body awareness and how to manage big emotions. 

This bundle is a PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper.

The Essential Yoga Bundle is made for educators, parents, and anyone doing yoga with children!

The Essential Yoga Bundle includes:

1. Sun Salutation Yoga Cards

2. Yamas & Niyamas Lesson Unit

3. Empowerment Series Printable Yoga Cards + Lesson Plans

The Sun Salutation Sequence is a 19-page PDF download that you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper. If printed, we recommend cutting out each card and taping/gluing on a 4x6 index card or card stock. For added durability, laminate each card.

The Yamas and Niyamas Lesson Unit is a 34-page PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper. The lesson unit helps children learn the concepts of the yoga philosophy, the context for the Yamas and Niyamas in everyday life, and how to incorporate these values at school, in sports and at home.

The Empowerment Sequence is a 16-page PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper. We recommend cutting out each card and taping/gluing on a 4x6 index card or card stock. For added durability, laminate each card.