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

SHAPE America

Can play be exercise? Does exercise have to be associated with a negative connotation to be effective? Applies the principles of exercise in a variety of self-selected lifetime physical activities. dance, yoga, aerobics) that meet the need for self-expression. Grades 9-12 2.12.7 Activity can and should feel like play.

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School sport participation

Learning Through Sport

While recreation sport in curriculum time didn't feature in any of the schools I worked in, when I started my teaching career in the late 1980s, in many jurisdictions school sport was still in curriculum time. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise , 54 (2), 299-306. Wilhite, K., Lonsdale, C., & & Reece, L.

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2025 Adapted Physical Education Blog, Welcome Back Edition

Arizona Health and Physical Education

I like to find out the student’s favorite activity, for example bouncing on the exercise ball. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance , 80 (2), 39-43. These charts can also help lay the language foundation needed to complete multi-step directions. So first work, then fun!

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Meaningful physical education programs and a 'main theme' curriculum model

Learning Through Sport

biomechanics, skill acquisition, exercise physiology, etc). Sport, Dance, Outdoor Pursuits, Active Recreation) areas in achieving the "physically educated" goal of the curriculum framework. In addition to team sports, over the years the SEM has been developed and researched with 'recreation' activities (e.g.,

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Competitively engineering better child sport experiences

Learning Through Sport

Players down the other end of the field from the ball are chatting, dancing, or jogging on the spot to keep warm! Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 85 (2), 218-225. South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation , 38 (1), 43-57. Buszard, T., Reid, M., & & Masters, R. Buszard, T.,

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5 Tips for Moving Your Career Forward as a Health and Physical Education Teacher

SHAPE America

These notes became the foundation for a two-part series we would later write for the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), “Transitioning From Students of Teaching to Teachers of Students.”. Running the Race. Julene Ensign Julene Ensign, Ph.D.,

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World Heart Day Q&A with Stanford Children’s Heart Doctors

Stanford Childrens

Exercise and Heart Disease in Kids Ever wonder if your child with heart disease should exercise? On World Heart Day , we asked four of our pediatric cardiologists to answer these questions and others from parents who wanted to know the guidelines around exercise for their child with heart disease.