Montessori Physical Education

JUNE 8, 2025

Most PE teachers teach six, seven, or even eight classes a day with barely a moment in between. Now, before you come at me with pitchforks made of pool noodles, I acknowledge that physical education (PE) teachers face real, systemic challenges. ⏳ Time Constraints Yes, time is a legitimate concern. Why has this perception lingered for so long?

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Stanford Childrens

MAY 14, 2025

Other times, they teach children strategies to manage stress, pain, anxiety, or depression, which can be associated with IBD. Mo has tests done based on his current therapy and has been seen in the Stanford Childrens Interdisciplinary Care Clinic , which provides medical, nutritional, emotional, and psychosocial care.

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The Everlearner

JUNE 26, 2024

In the past, my writings on movement analysis , levers , planes , axes and nutrition have proved really popular. So, today, I’m going to attempt something a little different: I’m going to try to teach you the story of muscle tissue and do so over a series of posts, each with a cliffhanger at the end.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Nutrition for high school athletes is complicated! And while we all want an easy answer, student-athlete nutrition is far from simple. Every one of our young athletes comes to us with their own experiences and understanding of nutrition, and we have to help them navigate a complex nutritional world.

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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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Carly's P.E. Games

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Jump Rope Skills - Check out these videos of how I teach the students how to "master tricks". Here is a video of how I teach basic jump rope skills. We also played Nutrition Bingo! I have TONS of jump rope videos, so if you'd like more info just search jump rope on my youtube channel. It was fun!

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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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Arizona Health and Physical Education

APRIL 21, 2023

Van der Mars regularly hosts workshops for K–12 teachers in physical education and served as co-editor of the Journal of Teaching in Physical Education from 1998 to 2002. He served as a member of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition Science Board from 2011 to 2014.

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Gopher Sport

MARCH 5, 2024

Use scooters to teach fleeing/dodging skills, fitness components, nutrition, teamwork, and offense/defense strategies! Grocery Game What: Tag game with a nutrition focus Suggested Grade Levels: Kindergarten – 5th Grade Equipment: Scooters with buckets and pool noodles for everyone, fake food Scooter-Grocery-Game-1 Download 5.

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Carly's P.E. Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

All students played the Color Run Game and a variety of tag games such as Fruit Loop Tag , Fruit Tag (just like Fruit Loop Tag but talked about nutrition and healthy eating!), This teaches them how to run, stop and dodge safely and how to cooperate with others. Stop and Go Tag, and Bubble Tag.

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PLT4M

JUNE 12, 2024

The Nutrition Education Example Let’s take a look at nutrition from a health literacy lens. Within many middle school health curriculum plans, schools cover the basic elements of nutrition. For example, a popular nutrition project within the middle school health curriculum is to dissect and explore food labels.

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PE with Palos

MARCH 11, 2022

As teachers, it is important to educate your students on the benefits of good nutrition, and work to introduce them to some healthy snacks. The MyPlate Real Plate is a teaching aid used at mealtimes to show food groups and portion sizes for each meal.

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School Yard

AUGUST 27, 2024

Play-based learning is presented not just as a teaching strategy but as a fundamental approach to actively engaging students in making sense of the world around them. Our expert guests share creative examples of play activities, emphasizing the benefits of peer teaching and inclusion.

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Physical Education Ideas

AUGUST 6, 2021

Teaching Health can be intimidating and sensitive, depending on the topic. Teaching Health can also be the most rewarding subject to teach as you get to engage in critical content that helps to develop life skills. Teaching the content properly could literally help save a life. Food and Nutrition. Food labelling 2.

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Physed n Health

MARCH 1, 2023

While this shift is important and necessary, it is equally important for teachers to ensure that what they teach in the classroom is relevant to a student’s lifestyle outside the school grounds. However, in recent years, many teachers have moved away from this traditional approach and shifted their focus towards addressing student well-being.

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PLT4M

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Nutrition is a key component of overall health, so let’s make sure people have the basic information about calorie needs to make informed decisions. A student watches a PLT4M nutrition lesson on a laptop. FAQ Does PLT4M have more information on nutrition for students?

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Whether you’re new to teaching or a seasoned pro, these PE lesson plan templates are your ticket to stress-free and successful PE instruction. The Challenges Of Finding The Right PE Lesson Plan Template PE teachers wear many hats, striving to expose students to a wide variety of physical activities throughout the school year.

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PLT4M

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Schools introduce and teach units like general fitness , weightlifting , yoga , dance, bootcamp , and other physical fitness units with PLT4M to address the 6 ISBE PE standards. Plus other physical literacy and nutrition units help to address the health education components of the ISBE PE standards.

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Stanford Childrens

DECEMBER 9, 2022

As a parent and caregiver, you play an important role in making healthy choices for your children and in teaching them to make healthy choices on their own. With so many mixed messages surrounding nutrition, it’s a task that can feel overwhelming. Support kids with medical diets.

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MSU

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I started my career instructing at a community college in Arizona after completing my bachelor’s degree in clinical health fitness from Central Michigan University and my master’s degree in exercise and nutrition science from Lipscomb University.

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PLT4M

JUNE 15, 2023

A quality physical education program goes beyond skill building and teaches students about healthy lifestyles through fitness, nutrition, health, and more. Check out the options below: Weight Training Dance Fitness Nutrition Mindfulness Yoga Pilates Boxing Bootcamp Remote Learning Is PLT4M Standard Aligned?

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PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2025

Each lesson includes a one page lesson overview, equipment checklist, game setup, teaching cues, standard alignment and more! Explore our K-5 Curriculum with these select Lesson Plans from some of our most popular Units. Download Now!

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PLT4M

AUGUST 9, 2024

This approach aims to teach students the value of regular exercise and how to design routines that suit their individual needs and goals. Nutrition – While nutrition might not impact a fitness plan directly, it does help connect the important pieces of overall health and wellness. Ready to WOW your Admins?

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PLT4M

MAY 15, 2024

The program provides versatile classroom resources to facilitate conversations about the effects of alcohol on the developing brain with your students, while teaching them about the scientific effects of what they put in their bodies. The program also provides one lesson on how underage cannabis use impacts the developing brain.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Implicit – Strength Training Activity A fitness center or weight room is a fantastic place to teach the skills of responsible decision-making. Through teaching basic skills and gameplay of pickleball, students learn to build healthy relationships in small groups as they practice drills and skills like the one below.

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PLT4M

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A student watches a PLT4M nutrition lesson on a laptop. It is recommended that teachers focus on one at a time, either a new teaching strategy, or new technology.” .” – Incident IQ And all of this is happening at the same time as many schools and states ban phones.

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AASP

MARCH 21, 2024

Teaching athletes to be “their own best teammate” and adapting constructs of self-compassion can help them be more open to a kinder and more understanding stance toward themselves, especially in moments of struggle, which can contribute to better mental health and body satisfaction.</li>

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MSU

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The explicit approach requires coaches/sport leaders to deliberately teach youth how to transfer life skills. The National Federation of High Schools (NHFS) offers a free course that focuses on teaching and modeling behavior as a coach. International journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity , 7 (1), 40.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

While Christi has retired from teaching after over 30 years in the field, she is still sharing insights and ideas for PE programs across the country. Over her career, she helped secure over $200,000 of grant funding for implementation of heart rate technology, fitness equipment, and PLT4M.

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Growing Healthy Kids

AUGUST 18, 2021

When I teach workshops, we talk about the importance of reading food labels to identify key nutrients. Look at the “Nutrition Facts” panel and identify what a serving size is. Usually I also have a whole wheat English muffin (where the first ingredient on the Nutrition Facts label includes the word “whole”).

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Stanford Childrens

AUGUST 22, 2023

When I teach Stanford School of Medicine residents, I give Damaris as an example of the great things that can happen by getting Trikafta early.” News & World Report , providing a full range of services, including medical, psychological, respiratory therapy, nutrition, and social work. “We

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The Physical Educator

DECEMBER 5, 2022

When I made the jump from teaching to full-time instructional coaching and content creation, I knew that I needed to get crystal clear in regard to the philosophy that would guide my work. Throughout my career, I constantly invested in my pedagogy and teaching practice (Empowered Teaching). Happy Teaching! Take Action!

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PLT4M

MAY 22, 2024

For example, chronic illnesses, poor nutrition, and unmanaged stress can lead to absenteeism, decreased concentration, and lower academic performance. And beyond just the common misconceptions of school health class, there are also a lot of other challenges teaching health! A student reads a PLT4M nutrition lesson a laptop.

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The Sporting

APRIL 10, 2023

Have advances in nutrition and fitness changed the way the games are played? The technical help from gym training has improved beyond measure since the 1970’s, as have the benefits of nutritional science. TSB : Can you compare the way players train now with when you were playing? James Stout is the exception.

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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. By keeping things simple, PE teachers can introduce students to the basic elements of gymnastics with some soft mats, balance beams (or even lines painted on the floor), and boxes or other elevated surfaces.

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PLT4M

JULY 22, 2022

What started as a passion project for our two co-founders while they were teaching and coaching has since grown into a nationwide fitness and health movement. As a result, new programs started to get created, and things like the intro to fitness, yoga, and nutrition became fan favorites among PLT4M customers.

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PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For example, it might be training on teaching a type of fitness subject or how to utilize technology in the classroom better. Student uses technology to access nutrition curriculum. What training or professional development will help set up for long-term success? .

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