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Movement Breaks For The Classroom – 15 Free Activities

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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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ISBE PE Standards & Curriculum Alignment

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We unpack these 6 standards and how physical education teachers can utilize PLT4M to align to the Illinois learning standards. 6 ISBE Pe Standards There are 6 ISBE PE standards for physical education teachers to consider. Want to see how PLT4M aligns to all 6 ISBE PE standards?

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California State Standards For PE

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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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Fitness Curriculum For Physical Education

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” Jessica Shawley, a PE teacher at Lewiston High School, succinctly highlights the unique challenge physical education programs face. There are countless physical education curriculum models that PE teachers can adopt. As a result, PE planning can feel like a never-ending puzzle.

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Is Physical Education (PE) Universal?

Reinventing the Game

There needs to be a very strong belief in our attempts to educate physically and this means much more than ensuring physical fitness and teaching a certain number of games. Many a times we unfairly relegate our efforts to merely ensuring physical fitness and the teaching of X number of games. Corbin (Corbin C.

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High School Strength and Conditioning Curriculum

PLT4M

As a result, physical education teachers have to figure out if every student should be on the same training program or if there need to be multiple programs going on in the weight room at one time. Before introducing any type of free weights, students should have a strong understanding of foundational human movements.

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Structures and Ecology: Linear facilitation processes vis-à-vis non-linear developmental processes in Physical Education (PE)

Reinventing the Game

This expectation can come from internal to the school and external stakeholders, including PE teachers ourselves. Majority of them will not carry on with facilitated, deliberate learning of skills like sports and explicit physical fitness type activities. Is living it.