PBS
Pbs Kids: Dragonfly Tv: The Show: Exercise and Memory
Can exercise really help our brain work better? This PBS site discovers if this is really true by taking you into the worlds of Jada and Maurna to find out.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Quotation Marks Exercise
Practice using quotation marks and italics in this brief exercise. Check your answers when you're done.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Aerobic Exercise Main Page
This GSU site describes what aerobics is, some of the benefits derived from participating and different types of aerobics.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Noun Pronoun Agreement Exercise I
Interactive quiz provides immediate feedback as well as explanations for each answer. Provides the option to print or email individualized results as well.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Nutrition Introduction
The CDC offers a wealth of information regarding several specific topics that fall under nutrition including good health, exercise, diet and more.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Using Commas: Exercise #1
Practice using commas as you complete this exercise, which requires you to know your comma rules.
Other
Pen and Page: Proofreading Exercise 1
In this proofreading exercise, students read a sentence and decide if it is correct. If it is correct, they leave "Correct" in the box; if not, they use the drop-down menu and select the type of error they detected. Then they click check...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Online Study Tools: Self Check Quiz on a Personal Fitness Program
The online assessment demonstrates knowledge of exercise and fitness. The questions evaluate students on designing a personal fitness program.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Major Comma Uses Exercise 2
Take a self-scoring exercise on using commas with coordinate adjectives. Explanations and additional help are offered, as well.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Comma vs. Semicolon: Compound Sentences
A handout with forty sentences for practicing comma and semicolon usage in compound sentences; answer key provided.
Other
English Language Activities, Exercises and Tests
This site offers tests and activities which can be used by a teacher as well as by an advanced ESL high school student doing a self-guided study.
OER Commons
Oer Commons: Gallery Problems Exercise
Students who have a clear understanding of the previous lessons can work on gallery problems of their choosing. This can be used as a good review or assessment.
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus: Cardiac Rehabilitation
This tutorial presents information about cardiac rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is necessary to maintain heart health. The heart, angina, exercise, prevention, obesity and other risk factors are covered.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Self Study Idiom Quizzes
Vast array of quizzes and self-study exercises based on idioms and idiomatic expressions, categorized in a variety of ways (beginning with A, B, etc., by keyword, or by association with other groupings). Great practice for the ELL/ESL...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Physical Activity and Health
A six-chapter report by the Surgeon General in 1999, "Physical Activity and Health" provides research on the health benefits linked to physical activity. Though this article is very long, key ideas and facts can be easily obtained...
National Institutes of Health
Niddk: Weight Control & Healthy Living a to Z
NIDDK provides tips for becoming physically active and in-shape, the notes at this website are appropriate for students of all ages. Information is organized into several brief sections including: "Health Benefits of Physical Exercise,"...
Quia
Quia: Phonological Awareness
This proofreading exercise asks students to read sentences and using the drop-down menu to select the correct choice for the blank. These sentences cover capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and usage.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Enhancing Your Listening
In this Boundless Communication students will learn the importance of being an active listener who can resist distractions and keep an open mind while suspending judgment and exercising empathy. SL.9-10.3 Eval Presentation, SL.9-10.3...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Season Fitness
Students have fun in fitness as they follow along with their teacher to perform various exercises and stretches found in the different seasons. Doing activities like playing baseball and cross-country skiing, students learn about the...
Towson University
Towson University: Active Passive Voice Exercise 3
Learn more about active and passive voice by changing the active voice sentences into passive voice.
Towson University
Towson University: Active Passive Voice Exercise 1
Learn more about active and passive voice by identifying the doer subject and the action verb of these ten sentences.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Physical Activity Introduction
Who needs physical activity? How can it help? Find out here with this introduction to physical activity from the CDC.
Randall Davis
Building Your Listening Vocabulary: Personality Types
This exercise designed for English language learners helps build their vocabularies. Students learn words associated with personality traits, such as selfishness, truthfulness, and cleverness, by completing this multiple-choice quiz.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Crowding Out
Practice what you have learned about the crowding out effect and the impact of budget deficits on the real interest rate in this exercise.
