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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. Why Fishing? Looking Toward the Future The outing continues to evolve, with lots of potential.

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COVID-19’s Impact on Youth Physical Activity

Spark PE

One of the many aspects of life affected was physical activity. All in-person recreation was closed, including youth sports, dance, martial arts, and exercise classes. But there is a possibility the reduction in physical activity could impact the COVID-19 pandemic itself. Pandemic benefits of physical activity.

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What does the Adapted Physical Education teacher really do?

Arizona Health and Physical Education

I know that to many of you we (APE teachers) breeze in and out of your schools and classes, spend 30 minutes or so with certain students, then we take off to another school. Well, that is just part of the story. Let me see if I can provide a (kinda) clear picture of a day in the life of an adapted physical educator. .

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An unusual school celebrates its first century

Stanford Childrens

K-12 hospital school gives kids a chance for normalcy and connections to other kids during long recoveries At most schools, the two students would never have met. One boy was a teenager in high school, the other a child in early elementary school. Normal for them is to go to school.

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Focus on injury prevention, wellness earns top mark for Bound Brook High girls basketball, USA Today

Whole Child Sports

Which is not, in any way, shape or form, to suggest or insinuate that co-ed and boys teams (at the recreational and travel levels) do not sorely need more female coaches too: THEY DO. This is dreadful news for the tens of thousands of high school athletes who tear their ACL each year. High school teams may be nominated here.

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Teaching Rhythm and Dance In Physical Education

The Physical Educator

These are tools that I’ve developed throughout my teaching career as well as some that I’m currently exploring with fellow #PhysEdU community members. The unit was built on the following grade-level outcomes: Performs a teacher and/or student-designed rhythmic activity with correct response to simple rhythms (S1.E5.2)

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