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How to Teach Students About Death in the Health Education Classroom (or Any Classroom)

SHAPE America

Preschool) PBS Kids — When a Pet Dies (Elementary School) PBS Kids Go! Dealing With Death (Middle School) Death With Dignity Debate — Use these debate prompts to help start conversations or to do a silent debate (High School) 2. Here are some resources that you might use: Sesame Workshop — What Happened?

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Coyotes, Equality Health Kick Off Partnership with Youth Hockey Clinic

Arizona Health and Physical Education

The kids at Irene Lopez Elementary School had a ball on Thursday, and students at over 600 other schools throughout Arizona will soon follow suit thanks to a new partnership between the Arizona Coyotes and Equality Health. That’s what they want to do in health and wellness, and that’s what we do as an organization.”

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Fishin’ for Change: Combining Physical Education and Outdoor Recreation

SHAPE America

We teach at the Ancona School, a small, progressive elementary school in the Hyde Park area of Chicago’s South Side. Each year, our school’s Gone Fishin’ trip combines physical education with outdoor recreation. They explore, make adjustments, and learn from experience and the environment.

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How I Received Grants for My Physical Education Classes

SHAPE America

Bicycle Grants The CYCLE Kids grant (valued at $25,000) provides schools with 10 new bikes, helmets, a bike pump, and textbooks that teach cycle basics as well as nutrition. To maximize time on task, some students worked with the bikes while others worked on fitness games that didn’t require a lot of space or set up.

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Fiesta Bowl grants 17 Surprise teachers

Arizona Health and Physical Education

This season’s 500 granted wishes will fulfill requests from teachers in the areas of agricultural studies, arts, math, physical education and wellness, science and special needs. Marichou Beltran, a special education teacher at Kingswood Elementary School, will provide sensory and reading materials for their students.

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Using the National Health Education Standards and Other Important Elements to Guide Your Teaching in Health Ed

SHAPE America

If you are trying to fit as much health education into a class as possible, you may have to make some tough choices. When considering standards, it is important to look at them horizontally (across skills) as well as vertically (across grade levels). She began working in education in 2003 as an elementary school teacher.

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Marines In Schools

Slow Chat PE

In this pursuit, introspection becomes a powerful tool to examine our beliefs and behaviors, and how well they align with each other. Notably, we observe positive shifts in areas such as elementary school fitness testing, the reconsideration of dodgeball, and the adoption of skills-based health education.

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