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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. Implement games into warmups and lessons that foster and complement the development of motor skills.

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Reasons Movement Teaches Kids to Think and Learn Differently

Skillastics

Studies have proven that physical movement helps kids improve their memory, increase their motivation, and improve motor skills. Exercise was proven to: Increase the number of neurotransmitters in the brain. These soft skills help them see classmates and situations through a different lens. Absolutely.

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Challenge Your Students with Parkour

Gopher PE

Looking for a challenging content domain to motivate children to learn a broad range of motor skills? Strides are important since they can be used to connect different obstacles and they promote eye-feet coordination. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport , 89 (4), 429-439. Consider parkour! 1 Coolkens, R.,

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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. Countless hours of workbook pages or textbook exercises don’t exactly stimulate some of the young minds we encounter. Well, is it?