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5 Ways to Celebrate PE & Sport Week in Your School … All Year Long!

SHAPE America

SHAPE America’s National Physical Education & Sport Week (May 1-7) is a celebration of the importance of physical education and sport in the lives of kids of all ages. Download SHAPE America’s Activity Calendars each month and have your students complete the physical activities that build motor skills.

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Why Game-Play is Important

Physical Education Ideas

Games motivate students to take risks and actions, persist through failures, set and achieve often difficult goals and put attention, time and effort to acquiring knowledge and skills. Isn’t this what we want from education? Games help provide different structure. Students learn through the process of playing the game.