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5 Tips for Teaching Physical Education Without a Gym

SHAPE America

Are you losing your gym space for a class period, a day, a week or longer? At some point, most physical education teachers have had to give up the gym for a concert, rehearsal, assembly, construction, or other school/community activity. And, although teaching PE without a gym is not ideal, it is possible. It’s not unusual.

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Introducing Students to New Lifetime Sports in a Mobile PE Class

SHAPE America

Rock climbing at LEF Climbing gym in Lexington, KY. As a PE teacher, you already know the gym gets stolen from you all the time. For example, the other day we got kicked out of the gym for a blood drive, so we drove to the local park during each period and did a short hike around a lake. This plays out in several ways.

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What I’ve Learned About Spreading Kindness in My School — on World Kindness Day and Throughout the Year

SHAPE America

and Kindness Across the Commonwealth has gone way beyond my gym and classroom and into my community. Spreading Kindness Can Be Fun In my gym and school, I begin teaching the health. The impact of health. We have seen that every act of kindness can make a difference.

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Using the City as Your Physical Education Classroom

SHAPE America

and as students slowly file into the gym, curiosity fills the air. The 20-minute bike ride serves as more than a “gym class.” The conversation deepened when Katorah revealed her findings: It costs $35 to take a class at BOOMBOX and $40 at Rumble, a similar gym. The bell rings at 9 a.m. at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C.,

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Add Movement to the School Day to Boost Student Physical Activity and Learning

SHAPE America

The gym is not the only place where students can move, interact and learn by doing. We need classrooms to be more active and engaging like the gym! Much of physical education is based on: An active approach; Experiential learning; and Student collaboration. All three of these tenants of PE can be better utilized in classroom settings.

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The PE Class Poster Tour | What’s on my Gym Walls |

The PE Specialist

Since I started teaching in 2007, I’ve accumulated quite a few posters and graphics on the walls of my gym. Today I wanted to give you a full tour of everything on my gym walls! What’s up Phys Ed Family! I hope you find it helpful and interesting, links to all posters in the video […]

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3 HALLOWEEN FITNESS ACTIVITIES for the Gym, Classroom, or Home

Keeping Kids in Motion

I present to you three Halloween challenges for the classroom, gym, or home. The anticipation of parties, costumes, and candy is almost unbearable. Why not add some Halloween exercises to the mix? Each activity is a.

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