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Curriculum Mapping For Physical Education

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Not only is physical wellness on the decline, we are also seeing an increase in mental illness a, declining academic performance, and troublesome classroom behavior issues. When using this curriculum mapping framework to create a vertically integrated PE Curriculum, that means starting with high school students and your upper grade levels.

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Health Benefits Of Physical Education In Schools

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Only 26% of high school-aged students attend PE classes 5 days a week. Social-Emotional Health – 87% of public schools reported that the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted student socio-emotional development during the 2021-22 school year, with classroom disruptions due to misbehavior at the top of the list.

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PE Lesson Plans (With Free Downloadble PDFs)

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Per the CDC, physical education is an academic subject just like math, science, or social studies, “It (PE) is an academic subject characterized by a planned, sequential K–12 curriculum (course of study) that is based on the national standards for physical education. This can still be a piece of high school pe lesson plans!

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Physical Education Waiver Form – The Opt Out Era of PE

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At many high schools, students have to take as little as one-half unit credit of physical education to fulfill graduation requirements. Physical education provides cognitive content and instruction designed to develop motor skills, knowledge, and behaviors for physical activity and physical fitness.

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Physical Activity vs Physical Education

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Students can often opt out of middle and high school physical education classes. Examples of physical education include teaching concepts and building skills around things like muscular strength, endurance, mobility, cardiovascular health, and more. Recess is an excellent example of physical activity.

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Understanding Motivational Theories in Physical Education

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Be on the lookout for lots of great content from Sean as he helps take the academic angle of physical education best practices. modified pull-ups for upper body muscular strength endurance, see Brockport Physical Fitness Test Manual ). multiple variations of a task focusing on the same motor skill). Futterman, R.,

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World Mental Health Day Revisited : A take from the AKA Staff

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Motor skills, decision making, strength, they all start from our heads. Personally, mental health was never something I learned or talked about until around high school and even then, I didn’t have a conceptual grasp of what it was until college. Everything in life starts straight from the mind.

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