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

SHAPE America

Every May, we celebrate physical educators and coaches — the “champions” who help kids gain the confidence, competence, and motivation to be physically active in school, before and after school, and for the rest of their lives.

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10 SEL Activities For High School

PLT4M

A wide range of SEL activities for high school students can help achieve this. What Are SEL Activities For High School? Teachers want to know exactly how to hit on SEL competencies in lesson plans. But, the beauty of SEL is both explicit and implicit SEL activities can support students. Social Emotional Learning wheel.

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The Beauty of Open-Ended Games in PE (Part Two)

Montessori Physical Education

Here is a summary of the rules for the Sustainability Game: One at time relay race style, teams take a tennis ball from the playing area and bring it back to their home base. Bringing a ball from home base to the teacher will result in receiving two balls. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates.

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Why Game-Play is Important

Physical Education Ideas

How many times have you heard, “It’s just a game!” Game play mirrors the way the human mind was designed to learn. 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. Well, is it?

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Creating an Engaging Obstacle Course in PE Class

School Yard

Motivating students to develop a life-long love of healthy movement and physical activity is just one of several unique challenges for PE educators. Also be sure to explore the Group Activities & Games tag page to find inspiration for lesson plans and active games for the whole class.

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