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

SHAPE America

Learn how to identify their target heart rate zone (and understand why staying within that zone can improve cardiovascular endurance). She is a National Board Certified Teacher and the 2025 SHAPE America National Middle School Physical Education Teacher of the Year. These quick check-ins help students build awareness and ownership.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Embracing “Exercise Snacks” For a Healthier You!

Relentless School Nurse

Benefits of Exercise Snacks: While further research is needed, exercise snacks may offer several benefits, including improved cardiovascular health, increased endurance, flexibility, muscle strength, and reduced blood sugar levels. The key is consistency—regularly incorporating exercise snacks into your daily routine over time.

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GCSE PE Cardiovascular System Project

PE Scholar

The Aim of Project: To embed key content related to the Cardiovascular System The task is to create a learning resource for secondary school

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Helping Student Athletes Avoid Vaping

SHAPE America

After Max got addicted to vaping, he dropped focus on baseball and got suspended from school. A review of published literature focusing on the effects vaping on athletes noted that routine e-cigarette use may have an impact on cardiovascular and pulmonary systems.

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Free Lessons for the New School Year!

Montessori Physical Education

However, if you’re like me, you can’t help but already start thinking about the upcoming school year. To help alleviate some of the new school year anxiety and replace it with excitement, I have three free lessons and a video to get your creative juices flowing.

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Walking for Life: One Step at a Time

Gopher Sport

In a recent survey of elementary teachers, it was found that most start off the school year with some form of rules/procedures coupled with games of low organization (fun, teamwork, cooperation). It is used to transport the body (to school and back, to the store and back, to the bus and back, or to the car and back). What to Teach?

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Can You Use CrossFit In Physical Education Classes?

Physical Education Update

And in at least one high school, it has been extremely successful. The video above shows an example of how Crossfit concepts can be used in a high school physical education setting, as a program for students who want to work harder than in their traditional PE classes.