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Movement Matters: 5 Ways Physical Activity Improves Student Behavior

SHAPE America

It supports students’ academic achievement, mental health and overall well-being. Once a week during their lunch period, the students joined me in the school gym for exercise. If you need help convincing your school teams that movement matters, try sharing these five facts: Inactivity withers the brain.

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Daily Physical Education as an Academic and Behavioral Intervention

SHAPE America

However, Spooner Middle School — located in the Northwoods of Wisconsin – is finding success by getting students away from their screens and taking them outdoors for fresh air and exercise. Half the students went out for daily exercise (such as biking), while a control group received traditional computer-based interventions.

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Fitness Through Play: How to Reimagine Physical Education for Lifelong Wellness

SHAPE America

Can play be exercise? Does exercise have to be associated with a negative connotation to be effective? What if students could build fitness through joyful, purposeful movement? Ive used practices that may have unintentionally shaped negative views of fitness, rather than fostering a lifelong appreciation for movement.

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School sport participation

Learning Through Sport

Research consistently shows a link between low physical activity in adulthood and low movement competence (World Health Organization, 2024). Wretman (2017) found participation in school sport had a significant standardised effect on academic achievement. School sport and academic achievement. 1999; Westerbeek et al., Wilhite, K.,

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Meaningful physical education programs and a 'main theme' curriculum model

Learning Through Sport

No program can achieve all that is possible or ambitioned for physical education as physical education programs have limited time (see for more discussion the last blog). Gallahue, 1996) is designed around individual student's developmental needs rather than achievement of content-specific goals. Developmental physical education (DPE).

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Elementary PE Lesson Plans

PLT4M

To achieve this vision, PLT4M is excited to partner with Mike Graham, an expert and advocate for quality elementary physical education. From fun games to skill-building exercises, PLT4M offers a variety of ready-to-use materials that make teaching elementary PE exciting and seamless.

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English Football Stadiums: History and Legacy

The Sporting

The New Millennium: Modern Arenas and Relocations From the late 1990s onwards, a discernible trend emerged: clubs, particularly those achieving promotion or with new investment, began moving to new, often out-of-town or edge-of-town, multi-purpose stadiums. A record attendance was achieved in 49,946 against Manchester United in 1967.