Montessori Physical Education

MARCH 2, 2025

Each movement, game, and sport has a larger story to tell, and I feel that integrating these activities with deeper cultural and historical context aligns beautifully with the principles of Cosmic Education. He pointed out that much of this work may fall on us as teachers. This is not a journey we should take alone.

Education

PLT4M

MAY 12, 2025

Invasion games for elementary PE offer more than just excitement and energytheyre a powerful tool for teaching key movement concepts like offensive and defensive positioning, teamwork, spatial awareness, and agility. Use Fakes Use body movements, eye direction, or footwork to trick defenders and gain an advantage. Grades 35: 2.5.3

Elementary

PLT4M

AUGUST 1, 2025

A fitness walking class encourages students to be active, consistent, and intentional with their movement—laying the foundation for lifelong fitness. >>> Schools are moving beyond traditional team sports to provide more choice, variety, and accessibility. Each lesson in Walk Fit blends movement and learning.

Fitness

PLT4M

JULY 25, 2025

PE lesson plans have to balance structure with creativity. Motor skills, fitness education, social-emotional learning, sport skills, and personal wellness all come into play. From foundational movement to advanced fitness, our programs are structured, flexible, and student-centered. In PE, there are many directions you can go.

Motor Skills

SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

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. The week also serves as the kickoff to National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Be creative and include them in games and movement challenges.

Motor Skills

SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

National PE & Sport Week (May 1-7) is just about here. And with the celebration of healthy lifestyles, active minds and bodies, let’s reflect on the importance of physical education and sports. SHAPE America’s National PE & Sport Week allows us to showcase, promote, advocate, and show off our best ideas. Spoiler alert!

Physical Activity

Learning Through Sport

MAY 9, 2024

Are these in-game actions creative or retrieval of a motor-ability in the moment. Memmert (2015) defined creativity in team sports as a players sport-specific divergent thinking. The mechanism of transfer seems to be enhancing the player repertoire of movement skills.

Creativity

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Francis’s School (STFS) in Western Australia, the Physical Education (PE) program plays a crucial role in helping students rediscover their love for movement and physical activity. Simon and his colleagues work tirelessly to reignite the students’ awareness of the importance of movement for life and vitality. STFS is a C.A.R.E.

Movement

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Recent evidence suggests that adding developmentally appropriate cognitive demands to patterned movement stimulates executive function and the precursor skills to reading and math ( Paschen et al., The ability to synchronize movements with rhythm is fundamental to children’s ability to pull to a stand, walk, run, skip, and gallop.

Physical Education

Every Kids Sports

JULY 16, 2024

Scotts believes in the power of the outdoors and connecting kids and their families to green spaces to play, thrive, learn and grow and we’ve been dedicated to this mission for more than a decade,” John Sass, Vice President, Chief Creative Officer of ScottsMiracle-Gro, says. Elevate your Every Kid Sports experience by following us on Social!

Sports

Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In my view, we can find more creative and productive ways to encourage positive student behavior without isolating them while their peers enjoy physical activity. While some students are naturally inclined to be active and prefer movement over talking, there are also those who would rather engage in conversation than physical activity.

Physical Activity

Skillastics

JUNE 23, 2022

Studies have proven that physical movement helps kids improve their memory, increase their motivation, and improve motor skills. Movement and physical activity truly helps kids think and learn differently. We are so excited to have partnered with physical education leaders, bringing joy and fun back to movement for two decades!

Movement

Skillastics

MAY 10, 2022

Here are five easy ways to increase student engagement and movement in your students by 50%. If you capture their attention right away with a creative, engaging activity you’ll keep their interest for the duration. The post Five Ways to Increase Student Movement and Engagement appeared first on Skillastics.

Movement

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 13, 2021

Engaging in this contested space, I did my doctoral study on curriculum and pedagogical innovation for sport teaching, which I termed sport literacy as I theorised sport teaching in PE using multi-literacy theory (Drummond & Pill, 2011; Pill, 2009, 2010). Sport is an applied, practised and situated set of skills; 2.Sport

Sports

Gopher Sport

AUGUST 14, 2023

And for an extra twist, encourage creative movement as they flip their way to victory! Rainbow Itty Sport Balls Pack Dive into a colorful world of play with the Rainbow Itty Sport Balls Pack ! These small yet mighty vinyl sport balls are the perfect addition to your PE arsenal.

Gyms

Gopher Sport

AUGUST 28, 2023

According to Carolyn Temertzoglou in her article posted on the Gopher Sport blog, “Non-Traditional Sports in PE” Carolyn references non-traditional games “provide new experiences, opportunities for positive social interaction, and develop movement competence within fun/joyful experiences.” Skills Developed: Forehand/backhand.

Physical Education

The Sporting

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Top 8 Sports for Fitness: Your Full Guide to The Best Sports To Improve Fitness While some people thrive in the structured environment of a gym, not everyone feels like they are cut out for the gym grind. Gym or sports, as long as you’re engaged, you will feel better for exercising - and your body will thank you for it.

Fitness

Montessori Physical Education

MARCH 26, 2023

With enough manipulation, a new tool was invented to unleash creativity and possibility. The sports materials are concrete physical objects. However, the sports equipment is often symbolic of a concept from the classroom. From a solely concrete perspective, they are using sports balls to work on different gross motor skills.

Motor Skills

Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 16, 2024

The sport performance environment is characterised as complex and rich due to the nature, volume, and occurance of information available to a player. Research by Daniel Memmert and colleagues has made a direct link between inattentional blindness and player expertise and potential for in-play tactical creativity. Loader et al.

Coaching

Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Running is an essential objective for every student because so many other skills, games, and sports rely on the ability to run. It doesn't have to be running; many different movement modalities exist. However, we do work towards mastering basic gross and fine motor movements. “ However, that is not the goal.

PE

Whole Child Sports

JANUARY 6, 2020

As our children grow into physically active, upright beings and we introduce them to sports, we pass the coaching baton to others, hopeful that while playing sports with their peers, our kids will be taught new skills, make friends, and develop a passion for exercise. Whole Child Sports encourages parents to introduce children ages !ve

Coaching

Gopher Sport

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In this blog, we’ve compiled 13 creative and enjoyable winter-themed indoor activity ideas that you can do with your students, turning your gym into a winter wonderland of movement and fun! This movement engages your core and obliques. white Yuki Balls. Students can practice all aspects of fishing right within the gym!

PE

The Sporting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Cruyff was a proponent of the football philosophy known as Total Football explored by Rinus Michels and is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. Football is the most popular sport in the world, and Leo Messi is a football superstar. He also has a penchant for scoring from chips.

Creativity

Learning Through Sport

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

GBAs provide an alternative to the technical orientated ‘behavourist’ teaching and sport coaching which is based on a dominance of direct instruction for replication of prescribed movement models (Pill & Hyndman, 2018): what Tinning (2010) described as demonstrate-explain-practice.

Sports

The Sporting

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Lucca is a player who thrives in a team that focuses on transitional play rather than controlling possession, but he needs to work on his link-up play to improve on combinations and movement between the lines, which would make Lucca the complete forward. The right-footed starlet is a creative maestro. passing accuracy.

Agility

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 30, 2021

Developments in curriculum frameworks around the world have formalised a rationale for critical thinking, problem solving and creativity in PE as elements in both curriculum design and in the wording of student achievement standards. Critical thinking can be learned.

Convergent Discovery

The Sporting

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Your Guide to Rhythmic Gymnastics – The Sport Blurring the Lines Between Sport and Art Rhythmic gymnastics is mostly performed by women, combining coordination, artistry and elegance. This year marks 63 years since rhythmic gymnastics was first recognised by the International Gymnastics Federation , making it a relatively new sport.

Coordination

Gopher Sport

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The goal of parkour is to overcome various obstacles in an efficient and creative way by jumping, swinging, climbing, and running. There are five different movement families within parkour: (1) landings, (2) spins, (3) vaults, (4) wall movements and (5) swings. Types of Movement Families: 1. Consider parkour!

Elementary School

Reinventing the Game

APRIL 14, 2022

Without doubt, as experts, we can predict much movement outcomes when it comes to skills, values, etc. We are keen to know if we have taught the life-skills that we expect of Physical Education and Sports. We want students to use their mind in the task we give them – as oppose to them not using it ), etc.

Physical Education

Learning Through Sport

JULY 11, 2023

This study showed that personalised teaching with a focus on mastery learning leads to two standard deviation improvement in student learning outcomes as it enabled teachers to give more attention to student ‘higher mental processes’ – problem-solving, application of principles, analytical skills, and creativity. AI makes it possible.

Coaching

The Sporting

DECEMBER 20, 2022

2022 - The Best Young French Footballers Rayan Cherki Beginning the list is an Olympique Lyonnais starlet; young creative midfielders have become a commodity in recent years at the French club, the likes of Nabil Fekir shun in his time in the city and the likes of Houssem Aouar and Maxence Caqueret continue to do so. interceptions and 2.07

Creativity

Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

For decades, children have been jumping rope as a form of movement-based fun. It has been known to improve health-related and skill-related fitness components, as well as helping to establish foot work and motor skills that can serve individuals in many other sports or activities.

Middle School

Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

For decades, children have been jumping rope as a form of movement-based fun. It has been known to improve health-related and skill-related fitness components, as well as helping to establish foot work and motor skills that can serve individuals in many other sports or activities.

Middle School

School Yard

JANUARY 23, 2019

Motivating students to develop a life-long love of healthy movement and physical activity is just one of several unique challenges for PE educators. A class period full of agility and skill-building movements can be fun and an adventurous change of pace. Creative Tools for Your PE Obstacle Course. Sportime Dur-O-Hoops Set of 12.

PE

The Sporting

JANUARY 13, 2023

These 10 skateboarders have not only left their mark on the sport, but they have also shaped the whole industry and culture of skateboarding. Let's dive in and discover what makes these skateboarders true legends of the sport, and i some cases in pop culture as well. Famous skateboarder Nyjah Huston.

Creativity

Skillastics

MARCH 10, 2022

Over twenty years ago, Speed Stacks® founder Bob Fox watched Sport Stacking for the first time on a late night tv show. An elementary school teacher by trade, he quickly became a sport stacking enthusiast, and began sharing the sport with others. But is Speed Stacking a sport?

Physical Activity

Learning Through Sport

JULY 13, 2021

There are many versions of game-based approache s to sport teaching and coaching. place less emphasis on the development of specified techniques and more emphasis on adaptive movement responses; and 4. This purposefully constructed learning context engages the pedagogical application of game conditions/constraints/modifications to: 1.

Teaching