SHAPE America

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Building a Bike Shop and a Movement Over the past two years, we have opened up our own bike shop at Dunbar, where students learn how to fix and repair bikes during PE class, gaining valuable skills and career opportunities. This highlighted the urgent need to provide equitable access to bikes and fitness resources.

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Active Schools Us

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Unfortunately, students just weren’t signing on (maybe 4 out of 15 students) or were signing on but with parents or grandparents doing something in the room that wasn’t conducive to movement. Active Schools: What do you find that your students respond most enthusiastically to in PE? Are you ready to join the movement?

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

By ensuring consistent and engaging participation in PE, schools can empower students to embrace fitness as a vital part of their lives—setting the stage for healthier, happier futures. Schedule a 15-Minute demo to learn how PE teachers are ushering in a new age of Physical Education with Fitness and Technology!

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PLT4M

MAY 12, 2025

Invasion games for elementary PE offer more than just excitement and energytheyre a powerful tool for teaching key movement concepts like offensive and defensive positioning, teamwork, spatial awareness, and agility. Use Fakes Use body movements, eye direction, or footwork to trick defenders and gain an advantage.

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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. Testimonials From our Educators, Coaches, and Olympians!

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S&S

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

School: Ravenwood Elementary Activity: Movement Concepts Stations Skills: Locomotor Movements, Pathways, Levels, Speeds, Balance, Dancing Grade: K-5 Movement Concepts Description This is a stations based activity where students work on different types of body movement. We utilize lots of equipment … Read More.

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Reinventing the Game

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This reminds me of the whole non-linear/emergent ecological approach to approaching any skill acquisition (or functional working understanding) of a movement process, simple or complex. Can a PE teacher teach a much younger age-group if they have always been teaching older learners?

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Class options and names include: Mind Body Connection Movement Arts Total Wellness PE Let’s take a closer look at the Lifetime Fitness elective at De Pere High School in Wisconsin. When Nicole Haese first revamped the Lifetime Fitness course, she had 1-2 sections a year.

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Gopher Sport

MAY 1, 2025

At the International School of Creative Science in the UAE, PE teacher Maryrose Camara is bringing all of this to life in a dynamic, culturally rich program thats engaging students in ways that go far beyond the gym. Every student comes from a different background, and their experience with sports and movement varies.

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Montessori Physical Education

APRIL 6, 2025

In Montessori classrooms, children not only engage in traditional physical education activities that support motor skills but also have opportunities to connect what they are learning to the movements and games they engage in during PE. Movement and Learning: Enhancing Brain Plasticity The concept of "use it or lose it" applies here.

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Reinventing the Game

AUGUST 11, 2024

It is difficult subject, wanting to enhance, educate, improve life skill movement that is almost unique to everyone through a generalised approach. I have to find some consensus as I have been a PE teacher for almost three decades and that is bound to mean something. What is its form? A paradox in approach to its existence.

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PLT4M

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Jump rope activities for elementary PE also support additional SHAPE K-5 standards, including but not limited to: 2.2.3 Identifies movement concepts related to locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative skills. Defines and provides examples of movement activities for developing skill-related fitness components.

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Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

As a PE teacher in a Montessori school, I know my situation is unique compared to PE teachers in traditional schools. My class sizes are smaller than the horror stories I read about on Facebook from teachers who have to manage fifty or more students at a time. It was an eye-opening and fulfilling exercise.

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Active Schools Us

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Physical education (PE) is critical to students’ overall development. However, PE is often portrayed negatively on television and in movies. Having well-trained, passionate PE teachers is essential to the success of any physical education program.

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The Everlearner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I am a PE teacher and I publish every single Wednesday at 19:00 UK. Move More Month is a US-founded movement that encourages movement and exercise amongst sufferers of cancer and other illnesses and I have been reading about it in recent weeks. Dear reader, Welcome to my blog.

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Montessori Physical Education

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Aligning Montessori Physical Education Lessons with SHAPE America's National Standards My journey to becoming a PE teacher may not be as typical as most PE teachers. It makes sense with two parents who were teachers. Demonstrates competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns

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PLT4M

JUNE 13, 2025

What Are Instant Activities for Elementary PE? Instant activities for elementary PE are quick, minimal-setup PE games that students begin as soon as they enter the gym. Think of them as movement-based bell ringers that: Require little to no instruction. Get kids’ heart rates up and bodies moving. Get Free Sample Lessons!

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PLT4M

MAY 9, 2025

Tag games for elementary PE are more than just fun ways to get students movingthey help young learners build essential skills like offensive and defensive movement, evasion tactics, change of direction, and spatial awareness. Defense : Deny space during gameplay by cutting off routes and anticipating movement.

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PLT4M

JANUARY 31, 2025

Dribbling games for elementary PE in particular provide an excellent way for students to build confidence and control with the basketball. Fun and engaging activities that emphasize movement, ball control, and coordination help students develop foundational skills while keeping them active and engaged.

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PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2025

Effective PE sub plans are essential to ensure that students continue to engage in meaningful physical activity no matter who is leading the class. Well-thought-out PE sub plans not only help maintain the flow of the class but also ensure that students stay active, motivated, and safe, even in the PE teachers absence.

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PLT4M

APRIL 22, 2024

Instead, PE teachers can introduce basic gymnastics skills in just about any gymnasium or space. From here, teachers can create stations where students can spread out into smaller groups and practice different types of exercises. Students can bend knees or bring legs further apart to modify the difficulty of the movement.

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Physed n Health

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

’ Teachers must be able to see that the students are performing movements correctly. PE Teachers’ Challenges first appeared on K12 Physical Education and Health Assessment. Articles and blogs on tips and techniques to get your students to turn their cameras on during online classes abound on the internet.

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PLT4M

JANUARY 29, 2025

Creative Throwing And Catching Games For Elementary PE One of the best things about throwing and catching games in elementary PE is that they can be played with simple, readily available equipment. PE teachers dont need specialized gearjust a few basic essentials can create engaging and effective activities for all grade levels.

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PLT4M

JANUARY 27, 2025

We have put together a free sample of elementary PE lesson plans that are sure to spark excitement with elementary students in physical education class. Challenges Finding Elementary PE Lesson Plans For elementary PE teachers, finding the right lesson plans can feel like navigating a disjointed maze of resources.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

PE teacher Sue Mathewson displays PLT4M curriculum options on a smart board at Hammond Central High School. Of those schools, nearly half said that their instructional plans wouldn’t be possible without that technology.” – Incident IQ At schools like Paradise High School in Arizona, PE teachers are using 1 to 1 devices in class.

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PLT4M

OCTOBER 15, 2024

First, the subject of physical education is rooted in movement. 5 Tips For Physical Education While the challenges and concerns about technology in physical education are important to consider, none of them should stop PE teachers from taking advantage of 1 to 1 devices during PE.

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Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Francis’s School (STFS) in Western Australia, the Physical Education (PE) program plays a crucial role in helping students rediscover their love for movement and physical activity. “We have three PE teachers, but we also teach other subjects like math and food studies.” STFS is a C.A.R.E.

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PLT4M

MAY 26, 2023

But physical education teachers must keep up with the best practices for today’s physical education classroom. Specific physical education professional development is crucial because it can support PE teachers’ pursuit of creating quality physical education for students.

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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. Kids need movement. This is where the right tools and mindset can transform even the most hesitant leader into a champion of movement. Encourage the idea that movement is a daily norm.

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Skillastics

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Movement is defined as changing the position of one’s body parts relative to each other. Physical activity is defined as intentional voluntary movement directed toward achieving a goal. The definitions of movement and physical activity are different, but we use the words interchangeably.

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PLT4M

JUNE 17, 2023

Movement breaks, or brain breaks, are opportunities for students during the school day to get up out of their seats and move. In this article, we explore the benefits of movement activities and provide 15 different free movement breaks for the classroom. First, movement breaks promote increased focus and attention span.

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Fit and Fun Play

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Timothy Davis – As we head into winter, I often see teachers dreading the long cold days when children may have minimal opportunities to play outside. However, creative minds can keep a classroom fresh and lively simply by transforming the classroom space with a theme.

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Reinventing the Game

AUGUST 27, 2021

So is PE even necessary for such movement-for-survival culture? Can we transplant a PE training programme that is probably heavy in consistent outcomes across individuals to a culture that have very different concept of movement for recreation and living well? Definitely not fitness and optimum movement solutions I think.

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PLT4M

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

As a popular lifetime physical activity, bowling supports a well-rounded approach to physical literacy by improving coordination, balance, and accuracy while reinforcing fundamental movement skills. Introducing different challenges like bowling for prizes or different point systems. PreK-2: 1.2.6 PreK-2: 1.2.9

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Montessori Physical Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

“Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.” I love this quote.

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Elementary P.E. Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Are you an elementary PE teacher searching for a spooktacular Halloween game to ignite the holiday spirit while keeping your students active and engaged? In this blog post, we’ll unravel the game’s setup, gameplay, and offer tips to make your Halloween-themed PE classes a memorable and physically active experience.

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Active Schools Us

MARCH 24, 2021

It’s a time during which they get to blow off steam and have some fun, while learning about teamwork, improving their confidence and self-esteem and connecting with their peers and PE teacher. Because of my work at Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK), I’ve gotten to know many PE teachers over the years.

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