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

SHAPE America

Here are five ways to celebrate physical activity during National PE & Sport Week and every week — and all year round: 1. Download SHAPE America’s Activity Calendars each month and have your students complete the physical activities that build motor skills.

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OPEN National Field Day

Open Phys Ed

2) Accepts responsibility for class protocols with personal and cooperative behavior as well as performance actions. (3) 4) Accepts “players” of all skill levels into the physical activity. (5) 5) Accepts, recognizes, and actively involves others with both higher and lower skill abilities into physical activities and group projects. (6)

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10 SEL Activities For High School

PLT4M

This includes capacities to recognize one’s strengths and limitations with a well-grounded sense of confidence and purpose. Explicit – Concern For Others Activity Over many of our emotional topics, we have focused on how we feel. In this lesson, students learn about the THINK acronym when communicating.

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

Montessori Physical Education

Emotion has a powerful influence on attention, especially modulating the selectivity of attention as well as motivating action and behavior. They may need more buy-in to be compliant and active in PE, especially if they are inherently not sporty. The sustainability game echoes this sentiment because it is never played “perfectly.”

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Why Game-Play is Important

Physical Education Ideas

How many times have you heard, “It’s just a game!” Well, is it? 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.

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Field Day: Inclusion for All Students

School Yard

Mix some of the active games in with time for sensory exploration and creativity. Consider Some Indoor Activities. For students who may struggle with the change in daily schedule as well as the added time outdoors, consider setting up some stations or activities indoors.