SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

The week also serves as the kickoff to National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Include at least three motor skills and one foundational movement skill every Motor Skill Monday (every day is even better!) Locomotor skills are the fundamental motor skills we most often associate with successful movement, especially in sports.

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Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Also recently, the strangle hold of fitness testing looms large in my professional life. Following the fitness theme here, I happen to visit a National uniform-group fitness testing centre where we observed their latest technology in helping test recruits using X-Box technology. Or is it not? What role does precision play?

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Physical Education Ideas

DECEMBER 31, 2023

teaching in regard to the four domains of physical literacy. When we teach, we know it is our job to get students moving and enjoy being active because we know (or should know) that everyone has the potential to value, develop and maintain positive physical activity behaviors for life. Choose something that you gravitate towards.

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PLT4M

JUNE 13, 2023

Functional fitness is any exercise or workout that improves your body’s natural movement patterns. This type of exercise emphasizes functional movements that can be used in everyday life. Download Now – 24 Free Follow Along Fitness Workouts for Physical Education [Free PDF] What is Functional Fitness?

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SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

Never underestimate your ability to create and teach new games and activities. Encourage them to teach you the rules and skills of the games. Make new friends through movement. Imagine the fun and excitement you will have playing five different games in five different days, trying to become the ultimate fitness winner.

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The Sporting

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Top 8 Sports for Fitness: Your Full Guide to The Best Sports To Improve Fitness While some people thrive in the structured environment of a gym, not everyone feels like they are cut out for the gym grind. But which sports are actually best for fitness? And there’s nothing wrong with that!

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The Physical Educator

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dance is a polarizing subject in the world of physical education: some teachers love to teach it, other teachers can’t even imagine themselves teaching it. We teach them to love dancing, as early and often as possible. I understand the importance of support musicality when teaching dance. Let’s dive in!

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PLT4M

APRIL 22, 2024

At PLT4M, we recommend teaching gymnastic skills to the entire class allowing ample students time to practice the movements together. 2) Tumbling – Forward Roll For all of our tumbling movements in gymnastics lesson plans, we want to move with control. Option to modify the movement by bringing your feet further apart.

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SHAPE America

MAY 23, 2023

Steven was a joy to teach with and so very knowledgeable. 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. We have the bikes at my school for as long as we use them and teach the nutrition curriculum.

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Gopher PE

APRIL 19, 2024

Key Components of Standard 4: Standard 4 states that students should develop personal skills, identify personal benefits of movement, and choose to engage in physical activity that is personally meaningful. Social connections through movement will not be fostered if someone does not move. We need our young people to meet Standard 4!

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Open Phys Ed

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The activities in this module are designed to teach students how to move safely around a track (running loop) while exploring different locomotor movements and having imaginative fun with their classmates. Concepts introduced include physical activity in and out of school, basic nutrition education, safety and locomotor movements.

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Physical Education Ideas

DECEMBER 30, 2023

To be clear, when talking about physical literacy, we are not talking about teaching kids the ABCs whilst getting them active. If you can teach a student a game that gets them off a device – that’s physical literacy. If you can teach a student a game that gets them off a device – that’s physical literacy.

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SHAPE America

MARCH 24, 2022

Students around the field are throwing and catching discs, learning movement skills, encouraging one another, and enjoying physical activity in the process. Grade-Level Outcome (Grade 4): Praises the movement performance of others both more skilled and less skilled. I threw it too far,” the thrower apologizes. That is the “structure.”.

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Reinventing the Game

AUGUST 27, 2021

The amount of administration to support teaching seems to have almost overwhelm actual direct teaching matters. Do we need more space and time to think of teaching and learning? It is space and time that comes with joy and satisfaction in teaching and learning for teachers. So recently, it has been crazy.

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Learning Through Sport

JUNE 4, 2022

- How do we address the decline in general movement ability? It 'paints a picture' of countries like Australia confronting a movement ability 'crises'. However, as Stephen Harvey and I wrote in our review of 20 years of research on movement competence here this movement ability crisis is now well documented and established.

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PLT4M

MAY 26, 2023

Instead, most teacher professional development offered throughout the school year is geared towards general teaching practices or other subjects like math, science, and english. When teachers feel more confident teaching and developing these fundamental skills, they can enhance student learning.

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PLT4M

OCTOBER 23, 2023

These include: STATE GOAL 19: Acquire movement and motor skills and understand concepts necessary to engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity. STATE GOAL 20: Achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness based upon continual self-assessment. Want to see how PLT4M aligns to all 6 ISBE PE standards?

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Skillastics

MAY 10, 2022

Here are five easy ways to increase student engagement and movement in your students by 50%. Give them programs that teach them how to win Kids have a lot of pressure on them at earlier ages than ever before. When adults join in the fun–even if they’re not perfect–kids are encouraged to bring their imperfect selves to the “Fitness”.

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Reinventing the Game

JANUARY 29, 2022

This type of versus discussions puts many off almost immediately, especially those in teaching where everything is based on neat time-based structures. As I teach less towards year-end, administrative work pile up, thoughts become preoccupied with non-direct teaching matters. The main researchers in these areas (CLA, NP, etc.)

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Gopher PE

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Activities in physical education often teach children important classroom skills including following instructions, making decisions, problem-solving, teamwork, and self-regulation. Using rhythmic patterns to teach math concepts or language skills not only makes learning more engaging, but it also makes learning more effective.

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Open Phys Ed

JANUARY 15, 2024

Created by: Jenna Knapp & Aaron Hart Special Contributions: Deedi Boland Design: Jennifer Truong For thousands of years, children have been jumping rope as a form of movement-based fun. Demonstrates competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns. Analyzes movement situations and applies movement concepts (e.g.,

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PLT4M

JULY 18, 2023

This entails teaching fundamental prerequisites and implementing an elective model that enhances student participation by offering a more comprehensive range of choices. Also popular were alternative Lifetime Fitness courses like HITT Bootcamps, Dance and Boxing, along with Recreational Activities like Spikeball, Pickleball, and Kan-Jam.

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Skillastics

AUGUST 22, 2022

No matter what generation you identify with, if you watched TV while you were growing up, you probably had a pretty cool fitness icon to look up to. Whether it was Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 70s, Jane Fonda in the 80s, or Richard Simmons in the 90s, there’s always been someone who made fitness look easy and fun.

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PLT4M

JUNE 15, 2023

Download Now – 24 Free Follow Along Fitness Workouts for Physical Education [Free PDF] What is Physical Literacy? ” And beyond just ability, people have started to look at the importance of motivation and attitudes toward physical fitness and activity. And we do this in a wide variety of physical literacy domains.

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Elementary P.E. Games

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Halloween Races is fun movement break and brain break game for kids! This interactive activity makes for a great classroom game or fun fitness workout to help get kids up and moving. The newest Halloween Brain Break has arrived, and it’s the ultimate showdown in this edition of Halloween Races! Halloween Races! Stay Connected.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In the forward of the framework, the document states, “High-quality, standards-based physical education instruction helps students learn not only the skills and knowledge to be physically fit and active, it also gives them the confidence and positive attitude necessary to participate in physical activities.”

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Carly's P.E. Games

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

This is my 18th year teaching for Kenowa Hills Public Schools, and I must say, this has been the BEST start to the school year that I have experienced! My goal is to MAXIMIZE our time together with lots of movement, exercise, sports and games. Welcome back to school everyone! I feel so blessed to work at KHPS.

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Reinventing the Game

OCTOBER 9, 2021

It matters when we acknowledge that the movement is a life-skill and the recipients of our services are differentiated with many needs. May leverage on a specific context, e.g. the teaching of concepts in an invasion game, to deliver pedagogy ideas better. whatever that is necessary when it comes to teaching and learning in our field.

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Gopher PE

JANUARY 3, 2024

Get ready to combine fitness and nutrition in an engaging nutrition activity! Objective: To allow for movement that develops different locomotor skills and spatial awareness, and to help students understand the food groups and proper nutrition. Practice by calling out a few foods in that group and then move on to another food group.

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

If you are teaching older students in health education class, another activity idea would be to have them compare the stores, restaurants and health facilities that are available in neighborhoods of higher and lower socioeconomic status. Create a Black History Fitness Trail. Read “ The ‘Hidden Figures’ of Physical Education ”.

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Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

That was until it was time for the Presidential Fitness Test. Funny enough, these tests were designed to evaluate students for “ military preparedness” more than evaluating fitness. While the Presidential Fitness Test was removed in 2013, the PACER test became a new method of torture. Then it was the week of doom.

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PLT4M

JANUARY 25, 2024

>>> Free Download: The Essential Guide To Teaching Weight Training The Pull – Foundational Human Movement For some reason, “Pulling”, as a fitness movement, is far less talked about than squats, presses, or a myriad of other bodyweight exercises.

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Open Phys Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This module builds on the Invasion Basics module for grades 3-5 and provides lead-up activities and small-sided games aimed at developing the movement concepts, movement patterns, and strategic knowledge commonly associated with invasion sports.

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Gopher PE

JUNE 6, 2023

Inexpensive, portable, simple to use, easy to store – scarves should be in every PE teacher’s repertoire, especially towards the end of year when you find yourself teaching somewhere other than your gym! Encourage movement and creativity and challenge them to explore how they can use the scarf in different ways. Happy Juggling!

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Skillastics

AUGUST 22, 2022

No matter what generation you identify with, if you watched TV while you were growing up, you probably had a pretty cool fitness icon to look up to. Whether it was Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 70s, Jane Fonda in the 80s, or Richard Simmons in the 90s, there’s always been someone who made fitness look easy and fun. Love fitness.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

And on top of that, we are tasked with teaching certain components of health and wellness.” ” And although middle school students want a wide variety of options, it doesn’t mean we have to sacrifice introducing and developing critical physical fitness concepts. Free Fitness Lessons For P.E. Get Access Here.

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Gopher PE

AUGUST 24, 2023

If you like puzzles, you can find joy in planning a curriculum, because trying to fit everything into one school year given your resources, facilities and time is near impossible. First, it’s the way I was trained, both in college and in my student teaching experiences. I hope to shed some light into how I approach curriculum mapping.

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