November, 2022

article thumbnail

Teaching Lacrosse in Physical Education Using the New USA Lacrosse Curriculum

SHAPE America

The “fastest game on two feet” … baggataway … the creator’s game. No matter how you refer to it, lacrosse is a great game to teach your students in physical education class! SHAPE America and USA Lacrosse recently collaborated on an updated, comprehensive physical education lacrosse curriculum.

article thumbnail

The GREAT TURKEY ESCAPE! – Game of the Week

Keeping Kids in Motion

This week’s game of the week is a Thanksgiving game called The Great Turkey Escape. The Great Turkey Escape is set on a turkey farm just days from Thanksgiving. It’s business as usually until the farmers hear a raucous coming from the barn.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

The Relentless School Nurse: Road Rage Has Come Out From Behind the Wheel

Relentless School Nurse

I have come to the conclusion that our country is filled with road rage. The anger and frustration displayed in cars has come out from behind the wheel into the streets, schools, and other public spaces. I began to notice it systemically when COVID reared its ugly head almost three long years ago.

Schooling 123
article thumbnail

Post-Shot Expected Goals (PSxG): What is it and why does it matter?

The Sporting

Explaining Post-Shot Expected Goals (PSxG): Part of our series on new forms of football statistics. Part 1 of 3 in a mini-series on modern football’s most cutting-edge statistics, by Sollie Cook.

Sports 118
article thumbnail

10 Signs You are Over-Parenting

RC Families

After working with parents for many years, I’ve observed that one of the pitfalls parents fall into is over-parenting. Call it helicopter parenting, lawnmower parenting, or even over-involved–the bottom line is that those parents feel a need to step in and maintain some sort of control.

Coaching 115
article thumbnail

‘He Saved My Life’: Honoring a Pioneer Transplant Surgeon for 35 Years of Saving Lives

Stanford Childrens

Jenny Tice, 34, makes sure to live each day to its fullest. She is a Bay Area native, works in finance in San Francisco, lives an active lifestyle, and volunteers.

More Trending

article thumbnail

Holiday Caroling Tag – Game of the Week

Keeping Kids in Motion

For the next few weeks, I’ll be posting a holiday game of the week. Don’t miss out! Be sure to subscribe for notifications. This week’s game is called, HOLIDAY CAROLING TAG. Scrooge, Grinch, and Jack Frost are once again feeling grumpy this holiday season.

article thumbnail

The Relentless School Nurse: Sharing an Interprofessional Op-Ed – Thanks to Twitter

Relentless School Nurse

Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register. . Twitter, while undergoing some unfortunate gyrations with its new owner, is still a space where I believe you can find like-minded people who care deeply about the health and wellbeing of children, youth, and school communities.

Schooling 114
article thumbnail

Interplay Between Exercise and Gut Health: How to Improve Exercise with a Happy Gut

The Sporting

How to use exercise to build a happy, healthy gut We are constantly told that to improve our endurance we need to: lift more weight, work out more or have a healthy diet. However, what if it goes beyond all of this. What if, to improve our endurance, we also need a happy gut?

Exercise 108
article thumbnail

In Season Strength Training

PLT4M

As coaches, we all want to win. We implore our athletes to spend the off-season training to become bigger, faster, stronger. But, the moment practice begins, our focus shifts and training sessions become an afterthought. This is dangerous.

Strength 103
article thumbnail

Is teaching Physical Education (PE) a tough job? Why I have stopped trying to be a better teacher and revert to wanting to make sense of what I am doing and why.

Reinventing the Game

It has been many months of not visiting my personal blogging habit as a way to delve more comprehensively into a job that can very easily take on an event or activity management role.

article thumbnail

2022 Elementary Physical Education Teacher of the Year

Arizona Health and Physical Education

Shelby has taught elementary physical education for Mesa Public Schools , at Crismon elementary for the last 22 years! She is also the wellness ambassador and serves on the leadership committee for her school.

article thumbnail

Michael Beale: Inside the Liverpool Academy

Player Development Project

Michael Beale has had the privilege of coaching some of the best young talent in England from the very beginning of their developmental journey.

article thumbnail

The Relentless School Nurse: Peers Supporting Each Other

Relentless School Nurse

group of school nurses has quietly gathered every Sunday evening from 7 – 8 pm for more than two years in support of each other. The numbers fluctuate but usually hover around 15. For an hour most Sunday nights, we come together to provide peer support.

Schooling 107
article thumbnail

Hulk Hogan: The man who took wrestling mainstream

The Sporting

Hulk Hogan: A profile of wrestling’s biggest superstar If we’re talking about professional wrestling, we have to start with Hulk Hogan.

Sports 98
article thumbnail

Alumni Spotlight: Bryson Preddy

MSU

Bryson Preddy is a U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret with 23 years of service, assigned to 10 th Special Forces Group in Fort Carson, Colorado. He has been deployed 13 times to 11 different countries on three different continents.

article thumbnail

Luke De-Benedictis on Spartan, community training and success in sport

My Zone

Meet Luke De-Benedictis, an all-round athlete who competes in obstacle course racing, trail running, triathlons and functional fitness events. Community

Fitness 98
article thumbnail

Middle School Physical Education Units

PLT4M

Filling up an entire semester of middle school physical education units can be challenging. But there are plenty of fun and engaging middle school physical education units to choose from. Let’s explore.

article thumbnail

DfE Publish Updated Guidance on the Primary PE and Sport Premium

Association for Physical Education

07/11/22 Updated Guidance from the Department for Education and how much PE and Sport Premium funding schools receive and advice on how it should be spent. About the PE and […].

article thumbnail

How to Recognize and Treat Concussions in Kids

Stanford Childrens

Recently, the NFL changed a key element of its concussion policy after one of its players returned to play too early and reignited the head injury conversation across the country.

article thumbnail

Rowdy Roddy Piper- The Hot Rod wrestler everyone loved to hate

The Sporting

“Rowdy” Roddy Piper- the story of a wrestling great It’s hard to believe that Roddy Piper’s first stint with t he WWE (then WWF) only lasted from 1984-1987. During those four years, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper was an absolute terror.

Sports 98
article thumbnail

The Relentless School Nure: Sharing a Moral Twitter Dilemma

Relentless School Nurse

Twitter has been my go-to social media platform for many years.

article thumbnail

Embrace circuit training that gives something back – MZ-Smart Station

My Zone

Myzone has launched MZ-Smart Station, gym class technology that can deliver a circuit training where class participants’ Myzone tiles follow their every move.

Gyms 98
article thumbnail

sports equal…social and communal impact

Every Kids Sports

Why youth sports are important to me By James Suri, Every Kid Sports. I’ve been extremely fortunate to have grown-up with the opportunity to play sports. In fact, I can attribute many of the successes I’ve had throughout my life to the lessons I learned through sports.

Sports 97
article thumbnail

DESTROIDS – Destroying Asteroids in PE – Team Building Fun

Keeping Kids in Motion

My First-Grade classes were in need of a couple of team-building lessons. I needed a way to reinforce working together, no matter who the partner was, taking turns, and communicating in a kind manner. At the same time, we were in the midst of. Health and Fitness asteroids team building

PE 95
article thumbnail

Premature Baby Turns 2 After Traumatic Start

Stanford Childrens

Juliana Vidigal was just shy of 26 weeks pregnant when she started bleeding and feeling abdominal pain. She immediately called her neighbor, who gave her a ride to a nearby hospital in San Francisco. The news wasn’t good. The doctor said, ‘Your risk for premature labor is 100%.

article thumbnail

The 5 Best Belgian Footballers of all-time

The Sporting

The 5 Greatest ever Belgian Footballers While often underappreciated due to a lack of major international honours, Belgium is still widely renowned for the amount of talent it produces on a regular basis. But who are Belgium’s greatest players?

Sports 95
article thumbnail

2022 State Convention Recap

Arizona Health and Physical Education

Thank you to all that attended the 2022 Arizona Health and Physical Education State Convention. We appreciate everyone taking the time out of their busy schedules and away from your kids to join us.

article thumbnail

PE Activities: Rethinking How We Classify Sports and Physical Activities

PE Scholar

Ever wondered if there is a better way to classify sport and physical activity to meet the needs of more individuals in PE? Insight

article thumbnail

9-mark answering for AQA GCSE PE

The Everlearner

In this week’s blog, I am delighted to announce the official release of a brand-new resource. This resource, the first of thousands of physical resources I will be developing in the coming months and years, is aimed at centres teaching AQA GCSE PE 1-9.

PE 87
article thumbnail

30 RANDOM ACTS OF FAMILY, FITNESS, and FUN – Holiday Edition

Keeping Kids in Motion

Just in time for the holiday season, Random Acts of Family, Fitness, and Fun has been updated and now better than ever. The goal of Random Acts of Family, Fitness, and Fun is for kids to enjoy the holiday season, spark their curiosity, and.

Fitness 94