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Health Benefits Of Physical Education In Schools

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Muscular Fitness – Builds strong muscles and endurance. Heart & Lunge Health – Improves blood pressure and aerobic fitness. This is because quality physical education doesn’t just help students achieve regular physical activity in the moment.

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Evidence Based Practices In Education

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Physical education provides students with a planned, sequential, K-12 standards-based program of curricula and instruction designed to develop motor skills, knowledge and behaviors for active living, physical fitness, sportsmanship, self-efficacy and emotional intelligence.”

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Physical Activity vs Physical Education

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While marching band is a great form of physical activity, it should not replace physical education. Examples of physical education include teaching concepts and building skills around things like muscular strength, endurance, mobility, cardiovascular health, and more.

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Understanding Motivational Theories in Physical Education

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Use modified forms of fitness assessments to match ability levels (e.g. modified pull-ups for upper body muscular strength endurance, see Brockport Physical Fitness Test Manual ). multiple variations of a task focusing on the same motor skill). Provide intra-task variation (i.e.