This descriptive study aimed to determine the relationship between teaching physical education with online instruction on students' cognitive engagement and performance in physical education and to answer the research problems posed. It comprised the following to wit; level of online instruction, level of students' cognitive engagement, level of students' performance in physical education in terms of grades and the significant relationship between the online instruction and the students' cognitive engagement and students' performance in physical education.On the other hand, descriptive method of research was utilized in this study. Questionnaire was formulated and given to one hundred fifty-two (152) respondents, who were selected purposively as the Grade 7-10 students under online distance learning at Sta. Catalina Integrated National High School. The researcher-made questionnaire is composed of two (2) parts: the level of online instruction and the level of students' cognitive engagement.The findings revealed that the level of online instruction was interpreted as high in terms of: e-learning resources, physical environment, performance assessment, online lecture, and online assignments, and very high in terms of online monitoring. As to the level of students' cognitive engagement, it was also interpreted as high in terms of self-regulation, tasks orientation and collaboration. Moreover, the level of students' performance in physical education in terms of grades for the first and second quarters were both very satisfactory.From the results, the researcher found out that there were lot of students as outstanding from the number of the respondents in Sta. Catalina Integrated National High School. It can imply that the students still learn and gain knowledge even without the proper physical activities through online distance learning.The findings also indicated a significant relationship between online instruction with the students' cognitive engagement and no significant relationship between online instruction and the students' performance in physical education.