SHAPE America

MARCH 21, 2023

Because I still want my students to get outside for fresh air and some natural vitamin D, I’ve gotten creative with one of my favorite units, which focuses on a standards-based approach with teaching opportunities in social and emotional learning. One of the best outdoor activities I have found to teach these skills is sledding down a hill.

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The Everlearner

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This is the hitting zone for PE teachers and highly influential subject knowledge for us all whether teaching Key stages 1-5 or teaching a PE qualification such as GCSE or A-level or BTEC. Every PE teacher knows the principles of training and there is zero confusion about what the principles mean and how to teach them, right?

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SHAPE America

AUGUST 12, 2024

Every Monday, we bring in yoga instructors, cross-trainers, fitness instructors, etc., Lasa Baxter from Wilde Holistic Nutrition and Fitness leads staff through a strength training workout that doesn’t require equipment. on a rotating schedule to lead staff in 40 minutes of exercise.

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SHAPE America

AUGUST 11, 2022

These notes became the foundation for a two-part series we would later write for the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), “Transitioning From Students of Teaching to Teachers of Students.”. The heat really gets turned up as students enter the internship or student teaching phase. Running the Race.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

We explore what student participation in PE means, how school districts can create a lasting impact, and provide actionable strategies to apply in schools. >>> Free Download: Lifetime Fitness Playbook with 12 Free Lessons Participation In PE By The Numbers The U.S Gone are the days of a one size fits all approach to PE.

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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. Imagine the fun and excitement you will have playing five different games in five different days, trying to become the ultimate fitness winner. Spoiler alert!

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SHAPE America

MARCH 14, 2023

We teach at the Ancona School, a small, progressive elementary school in the Hyde Park area of Chicago’s South Side. Overall, we have found fishing a great fit for our students developmentally across the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains. What the Adults Learn Find adventurous colleagues, regardless of what they teach.

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Gopher Sport

JANUARY 15, 2025

How Boardball Bumps Up The Fun, Fitness, and Teamwork in PE Classes BOARDBALL Boardball replaces the volleyball net with a portable board, reducing the barriers to play and setup while keeping the core bump-set-spike fundamentals of the game intact. Think Volleyball meets Spikeball.

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Fitness Fitness PE PE Teacher 59

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

We explore some of the top physical education electives and how physical education teachers and programs across the country are encouraging lifetime fitness through a physical education electives model. >>> More On Wymossing Check out how Wyomissing has shifted to a LIfetime Fitness model using electives.

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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 PE Education Education 264

Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In the world of international education, there are those who simply teach, and then there are educators like Allison Deakin, Head of Department for Elementary PE and Swimming, JV & Varsity Badminton Coach, and former Activities Coordinator at GEMS Dubai American Academy (DAA).

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PE PE Teacher Elementary Physical Activity 98

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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SHAPE America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It might be a great fit for your school. has a passion for teaching health and physical education. But if you need financial support to make something really pop, consider making a pitch to your Parent Teacher Association or to local education support groups. You could also try looking for local grants. ® FUNdraising program.

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PLT4M

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

At PLT4M, we teach and practice the underhand roll via fun and dynamic bowling activities for elementary PE. Teaching Underhand Roll Via Bowling Lesson Plans For Elementary PE Bowling provides an exciting and engaging way to teach the underhand roll in elementary physical education. Download Now! PreK-2: 1.2.6 PreK-2: 1.2.6

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A study about the physical fitness of young men who use tobacco products found that men who vaped reported running slower and doing fewer push-ups and sit-ups compared to men who never vaped or smoked. Be proactive and address the dangers of vaping as part of your teaching and coaching strategy. Defend against youth vaping.

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Carly's P.E. Games

APRIL 16, 2020

Fitness Easter Egg Hunt Equipment Needed: Plastic Easter Eggs (About 10, or as many as you would like to use.) Directions: Watch this quick video Fitness Easter Egg Hunt Ideas for exercises: Jumping Jacks Hop on 1 foot Scissor Jumps Lunges Push-Ups Crunches Plank Leg Raises Mountain Climbers High Knees Butterfly Stretch Balance on 1 foot 2.

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The PE Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

Breaking Boundaries: Teaching Cricket in Primary Schools As summer fast approaches (hopefully bringing the sunny weather with it), so do the ‘summer sports’ in PE. Each of these activities comes with different challenges when teaching in primary schools. However, this does not have to be the case.

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SHAPE America

AUGUST 2, 2023

How do you know what to teach in your physical education classes? Using SHAPE America’s National Physical Education Standards as the guide to my teaching helps me prepare my students to take charge of their own physical literacy journey — and I recommend that’s where you start as well. What do your students need?

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PLT4M

AUGUST 9, 2024

Physical education classes offer unique opportunities for students to explore fitness, health, and wellness. Many PE classes at the high school level look to take essential steps to transition students from school to an adult life that still values and prioritizes personal fitness and wellness.

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Fitness Fitness PE Physical Education 105

Open Phys Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

The Rhythm Fit modules will be an on-going series of routines set to music using a variety of equipment. Personal enjoyment, social engagement, and having an appreciation for all movement forms will teach and reinforce skills and concepts while keeping the magic of movement alive. Music Production: Hip Hop Public Health.

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SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

The week also serves as the kickoff to National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Have progressions and regressions of specific movements available within the teaching and coaching mode to facilitate development (e.g., An example of this is to run, then add kicking a ball, or skip and then lunge.

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Gopher Sport

APRIL 15, 2024

Volleyball is a hard sport to teach to lower grades but with the right equipment and proper cues and progressions it can be a fun engaging unit in your physical education program. Serving: Unique Teaching Cues: Meatball on a plate Your heel (of your strong hand) is the fork to hit the meatball off the plate.

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Open Phys Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Plug & Play Fitness activities are among the most popular resources on the OPEN platform – with over 100,000 downloads and counting! This page brings all three Plug & Play modules together for quick and easy access across all grade levels.

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The Sporting

MARCH 24, 2023

The Top 10 Fitness Influencers on Instagram In recent years, the fitness craze has taken the world by storm and Influencers on social media have played a major role. These are the models, influencers and celebrities who share their fitness plans and goals to promote a healthy lifestyle to all of their followers. Jen Selter : 13.7m

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SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A CASE FOR MORE MOVEMENT IN SCHOOL Physical activity improves fitness, weight management, mental health, behavior, and most other medical conditions. Teach students how to learn and to love learning. The foundation for a healthy lifestyle best begins in childhood and is reinforced regularly over time.

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Physed n Health

MARCH 1, 2023

Traditionally, physical education has focused on fitness assessment, such as measuring students’ physical capabilities and comparing them to established standards. However, in doing so, teachers must also ensure that what they teach in the classroom is relevant to a student’s lifestyle outside the school grounds.

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The Sporting

APRIL 5, 2024

Elise Spicer: Motivation and starting your fitness journey. Elise Spicer PT gives a very candid and honest account of her fitness motivation and what it took to take the first steps on her journey. Can you remember what things you needed to change to find a sustainable path on your fitness journey?

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PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Swimming is an amazing lifelong fitness skill. We explore benefits, tips, and strategies for teaching the 4 strokes of swimming in physical education. Kickboards are a very helpful tool when teaching the 4 strokes of swimming! Our goal is to develop the basic skills so that swimming can be a lifelong fitness skill for students.

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Teaching Teaching PE Recreation 116

Aspire-Ed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Here we break down that impact and take a closer look at why gymnastics is an essential sport to teach in primary school. Teaching gymnastics develops key physical skills. Which leads us on to our next point… Teaching gymnastics is in line with the national curriculum. Gymnasts exercise body and mind.

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Skillastics

APRIL 21, 2025

Lets be honest most after-school and expanded learning programs arent staffed with certified fitness trainers or PE teachers. But heres the truth: you dont have to be a fitness expert to foster active, healthy habits in young learners. The truth is children dont need their leaders to act like personal trainers.

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Physical Education Ideas

MAY 2, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore the reasons why teaching Health and Physical Education is crucial and how literacy is the foundational skill upon which all knowledge is built. Curriculums around the world clearly recognise the importance of teaching literacy in Health and Physical Education. health-related fitness 5.

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Reinventing the Game

AUGUST 11, 2024

There is no perfect lesson but perhaps a context best-fit one! The perfect-fit lesson perhaps exemplifies (represents the role of) to a larger extent the role of the learner in a learning process. This is where learners as a group gravitates to expected response by teaching designs. Will affordances expected be same for all?

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Physical Education Education Education PE 162

Open Phys Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Module Documents Physical Education Complete Packet: Module Overview: Materials List: All Physical Education Activities: Academic Language Cards: Universal Design for Learning: Physical Education Sample Lesson Plan: Classroom Sample Lesson Plan: Snowman Badges: Classroom Scorecard: Classroom Scoring Instructions: Physical Education Scoring Instructions: (..)

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Physical Education Update

JANUARY 18, 2023

Three PE Update.com articles that describe in-class physical education activities are: Non-Elimination Musical Chairs , Fitness Breaks , and Favourite Sports Routines. That leaves them with the challenge of finding activities that students can perform in their classroom. However, the Alberta Centre for Active Living has another option…yoga!

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Our First Advocacy Attempts More than 20 years ago, WHPE began conducting several Legislative Health & Fitness Day events at the Wisconsin State Capitol building in Madison. Advocating for health and physical education is worth the effort! Students felt empowered and were grateful for the opportunity to participate and help.”

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Relentless School Nurse

MARCH 7, 2023

Maybe hanging in for one more year to see if it still fits. Remember, we teach people how to treat us. It could be that so many of us were too damned numb to make a decision. Maybe thinking that it’ll get better. Maybe coming to the realization that it can now officially be called untenable.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

MARCH 5, 2024

Northern Arizona University is now accepting applications for a new, fully online program that offers a pathway to secure the Standard Arizona Physical Education teaching credential for those who already hold a bachelor’s degree in another field. Learn more at nau.edu/health-sciences/physical-education.

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