PLT4M

JUNE 19, 2025

That’s why it’s essential to prioritize and plan a high school physical education curriculum that not only teaches the foundational elements of health and wellness but also encourages student choice, autonomy, and exposure to a wide variety of activities. Report Card on Physical Activity For Children and Youth.

High School

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. Get Free Sample Lessons!

Teaching

Gopher Sport

APRIL 16, 2025

This approach aligns seamlessly with the Meaningful PE framework, where fun, autonomy, challenge, and relevance are essential pillars, and underscores our goal of building lifelong habits of physical activity for every student. Why Gamification in PE? Learning should be fun.

Physical Education

Learning Through Sport

MARCH 23, 2025

Some don't develop the confidence in their competence to continue to pursue being physically active through sport when they enter adolesence. However, frequent participation in sports during adolesence has been associated with the liklihood to be highly physically active as an adult (Tammelin, 2003).

Sports

Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

A well-designed sports program has the capacity to teach teamwork, sportsmanship, grit, leadership, and many other life skills, as well as a lifelong love for their game. The goal is not to discourage early physical activityindeed, free play and basic motor skill development are crucial for young children.

Sports

Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 31, 2025

In my last post here , I considered what it means to teach physical education for effective learning. In this blog, I connect back to an idea I have discussed before in relation to games based teaching here , that is making a physical education program meaningful. Sport Education. Adventure Education.

Physical Education

Skillastics

APRIL 21, 2025

The wonderful people running these programs are often educators, childcare professionals, or part-time, young adults who wear many hats, and leading physical activity might not be their comfort zone. But heres the truth: you dont have to be a fitness expert to foster active, healthy habits in young learners. Kids need movement.

Physical Activity

Stanford Childrens

MARCH 3, 2025

This is well beyond a level thats safe for childrens hearing, which is generally a maximum of 75 dB. Regardless, teach kids to keep the volume level at no higher than half. This benefits a childs hearing and also encourages creativity, imagination, learning, physical activity, and more. How long is too long?

Academics

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.

PE

PLT4M

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This exciting partnership will provide schools with a comprehensive and engaging K-5 PE curriculum designed to foster movement, skill development, and a lifelong love of physical activity. Since beginning his teaching career in 1996, Mike has dedicated himself to promoting meaningful and engaging PE experiences for young students.

PE Teacher

PLT4M

JANUARY 27, 2025

While an abundance of materials is available, many address only specific aspects of physical education rather than offering a comprehensive approach. Some focus heavily on teaching individual skillslike dribbling or jumpingbut lack engaging, fun activity ideas. Another significant challenge is the cost of high-quality resources.

Elementary

PLT4M

JULY 16, 2025

This standard emphasizes how physical activity can be a powerful tool to help students build communication, teamwork, and interpersonal skills—especially in a group setting. Grades 3–5: 3.5.2 – Uses communication skills to negotiate roles and responsibilities in a physical activity setting. → What went well?

Elementary

Arizona Health and Physical Education

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Through our new partnership with Booster, the program now comes with even more great resources, dedicated coaching and a streamlined timeline, making it easier and more fun than ever to exceed your schools fundraising goals and directly support your health and wellness programs. lessons and activities. Start Fundraising Today!

Motivation

Gopher Sport

MAY 1, 2025

Building Character Through PE Maryrose and her team focus on character development alongside physical fitness, ensuring students grow mentally and socially as well as physically. Challenges of Teaching PE in an International School Teaching in a multicultural environment comes with its challenges.

PE

Relentless School Nurse

MARCH 9, 2025

Let’s unpack this quote and explore its implications for school nurses, and anyone dedicated to the well-being of others. Are you finding time for physical activity? The demands of our job both physical and emotional require that we maintain our health and energy levels. Are you eating nutritious meals?

Schooling

PLT4M

JULY 25, 2025

In math, you might teach addition, then multiplication, then algebra. Motor skills, fitness education, social-emotional learning, sport skills, and personal wellness all come into play. Whether you teach elementary, middle, or high school, PLT4M offers a curriculum that adapts to your students’ needs—and helps them grow.

Motor Skills

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. Each lesson includes a one page lesson overview, equipment checklist, game setup, teaching cues, standard alignment and more!

Elementary

PLT4M

MAY 9, 2025

In this article, well explore how these engaging tag games for elementary PE align with SHAPE standards, highlight a variety of game options with detailed activity descriptions, and share a full lesson sample from PLT4Ms K-5 physical education curriculum to help you bring these skills to life in your classroom. Download Now!

Elementary

PLT4M

JULY 15, 2025

A high-quality health curriculum is more than a requirement—it’s a powerful tool that equips students with lifelong wellness skills. As student needs evolve, so should the way we teach health. When schools provide a strong wellness curriculum, they help students build healthy habits that can last a lifetime.

Health

PLT4M

JANUARY 29, 2025

In this article, well explore how these games align with SHAPE standards, preview our full slate of game options with activity descriptions, and share a full lesson sample from PLT4Ms K-5 offering to help bring these skills to life in your classroom. Makes choices that are fair according to activity etiquette. Grades 3-5: 3.5.2

Elementary

PLT4M

JANUARY 31, 2025

In this article, well explore how these fun basketball games align with SHAPE standards, preview our full slate of game options with activity descriptions, and share a full lesson sample from PLT4Ms K-5 offering to help bring these skills to life in your classroom. Examples include, but are not limited to: 2.5.1

Elementary

Stanford Childrens

JULY 11, 2025

These conversations also provide an opportunity to correct misinformation and teach compassion. Set an example: Limit your own screen time, and engage in activities like reading and playing. Encourage physical activity: Plan fun activities to give children alternatives to screen time.

Health

Montessori Physical Education

JULY 6, 2025

something that is respected and pays well. Now, if you’re thinking, "The boy is in kindergarten, it doesn’t matter what he says now," well, you're not wrong. I keep those kids at the forefront of my mind because I don’t want them to miss out on a lifetime of physical activity. It's Just Kindergarten… But Is It?

PE Teacher

PLT4M

MARCH 18, 2025

Each lesson includes a one page lesson overview, equipment checklist, game setup, teaching cues, standard alignment and more! In particular, soccer aligns with standards related to the global nature of the game, which is played by many cultures worldwide, as well as its potential to be a fun activity outside of the classroom.

Elementary

PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2025

When a physical education teacher can’t be in class, whether due to illness, professional development, or personal matters, the show must go on. Effective PE sub plans are essential to ensure that students continue to engage in meaningful physical activity no matter who is leading the class. Download Now!

PE

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

There are fewer sunlit hours after school for children to be outside and physically active. This time of year, it is increasingly important to incorporate physical activity into the school day. We need classrooms to be more active and engaging like the gym! Active and healthy students are better learners.

Physical Activity

SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

It is time to explore what our surroundings have to offer, while maintaining our physical health. Going outside to be physically active helps increase a person’s mood, their fine motor skills, social skills, and personal wel-being. Never underestimate your ability to create and teach new games and activities.

Physical Activity

SHAPE America

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

No matter how you refer to it, lacrosse is a great game to teach your students in physical education class! SHAPE America and USA Lacrosse recently collaborated on an updated, comprehensive physical education lacrosse curriculum. That is where you will find the specific grade-level outcomes that you can teach with the lesson.

Physical Education

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.

Elementary

SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

Every May, we celebrate physical educators and coaches — the “champions” who help kids gain the confidence, competence, and motivation to be physically active in school, before and after school, and for the rest of their lives. Implement games into warmups and lessons that foster and complement the development of motor skills.

Motor Skills

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Consider creating a competition about a health-related habit, like a physical activity challenge. has a passion for teaching health and physical education. Make It Fun and Interactive Improving health literacy helps everyone, so it’s important to try to engage the entire school and community.

Health

SHAPE America

MAY 23, 2023

As an elementary physical education teacher in the Bronx, NY, I’m always looking for ways to stretch my PE budget and introduce my students to new physical activities. Here are some examples of the types of grants I’ve received, along with my advice on how you might find similar grants for your physical education classes.

Physical Education

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. Each year, our school’s Gone Fishin’ trip combines physical education with outdoor recreation. We noticed that once the students had gotten the lay of the land, they quickly started teaching one another.

Recreation

SHAPE America

JUNE 18, 2024

These effects can make it harder for students to focus on their academics, athletics, and other extracurricular activities. As an educator and a trusted source of information, you can help your students understand the risks of vaping, teach them how to build healthy coping skills, and ultimately empower them to live vape-free.

Education

Physed n Health

MARCH 1, 2023

Physical education is an important subject that plays a crucial role in promoting physical activity, health, and overall well-being of students. Traditionally, physical education has focused on fitness assessment, such as measuring students’ physical capabilities and comparing them to established standards.

Assessment

SHAPE America

AUGUST 2, 2023

How do you know what to teach in your physical education classes? I am a National Board Certified elementary physical education teacher with more than 13 years of experience. This made it easy for me to reference and teach my students about our learning goals. What do your students need?

Physical Education

Physical Education Ideas

MAY 2, 2023

In a world where technology and innovation dominate, the importance of Health and Physical Education is often overlooked. However, this subject is essential for the well-being of students and their future success. Why should students learn Health and Physical Education? This is where Physical Education teachers are vital.

Physical Education