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WEBHealth and physical education programs are most effective when they are delivered in healthy schools and when students’ learning is supported by school staff, families, and communities. Initiatives such as “Who got Caught” certainly can lend to building a …

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STEM in the Gym: Tips and Activity Ideas for Physical Education

WEBPlace two robots on one side of the gym and the programmer on the other side. In the middle was a plethora of noodles and rubber animal obstacles. Programmer had a poly spot with a directional arrow. Programmer had to direct his/her robot one at a time through …

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A Fun and Active Game to Teach Health-Related Fitness …

WEBOne of my student’s favorite games, does just this, it is the game Health-Related Fitness Tag. This activity is perfect for introducing the health-related fitness concept and/or formatively assessing your students’ ability to demonstrate each of the components. …

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A Comprehensive List: What Every High School Student …

WEBBody Measurements (done monthly for personal use only). Why? The scale measures everything—every sip of water, every bite of food, your bones, muscles, organs, fat. There’s no way to distinguish between what you’re gaining (which could just be water) or losing …

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Teaching Physical Fitness Concepts in All Spaces

WEBTeaching Skill-Related Fitness Concepts in All Spaces. There are two components of physical fitness that must co-exists within physical education—health-related and skill-related. My students enjoy activities that challenge any of the six skill-related fitness …

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STEAM and Physical Education: Meeting the Curve

WEBTo better prepare students in the fields of STEAM, the federal government has prioritized the development of programs, academies, and schools emphasizing these areas. This push, as well as data suggesting STEM jobs make up 20%, or 26 million, of US jobs …

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Standard 5 Assessments Made Easy

WEBSHAPE America’s Standard 5 reads, “The physically literate individual recognizes the value of physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction.” You have all read it. If you haven’t, you just did. In my experience, this is the …

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How to Integrate Nutrition in PE: Classics with Content

WEBThe goal of this blog is to share how the USDA’s Choose MyPlate website can enhance classic game activities by integrating nutrition in PE using the ‘10 tips’ Series. Classic games such as tag, pin knockdown and bowling became revitalized when I began …

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5 Nutrition Games for Physical Education (Video)

WEBNutriPlay Nutringo Nutrition Bingo. This game makes bingo active and healthy! Teachers select a Nutringo™ card and read off the name of the food, a fun fact and the exercise activity. Students look at their board and if they are able to mark the spot off, they must …

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Teaching Life Lessons Through Physical Education

WEBThe skills developed through Physical Education are difficult to reproduce in a traditional classroom setting. Physical Education remains as, and should be promoted as, a valuable laboratory for teaching life lessons; a laboratory which plays an integral role in the …

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Fitness Testing: Helpful or Hurtful

WEBToo often, fitness testing can do more harm than good. It can be a very intimating and threatening experience for our students leaving them with feelings of inadequacy and less confidence in their abilities; moreover, students can become less motivated and less …

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Top 10 Free Physical Education Apps

WEB4. GoNoodle Kids: ( iOS ) ( Android) GoNoodle Kids is a free app focusing on kid’s yoga, dancing, and mind activities. GoNoodle Kids is one of the best apps for physical education teachers, as it allows your kids to be creative, active, and to express themselves. Your …

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health. moves. minds. at a High School Setting

WEBHow can you introduce a social-emotional learning program like health. moves. minds into a high school setting? I will show you how we adopted health. moves. minds into our high school which went beyond a standard fundraiser and turned into an experience that will …

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Tips for Finding Physical Education Grants Gopher PE Blog

WEBMany of the grants available today have multiple components. The components may include nutrition, physical activity, wellness, etc. If others in your building will be impacted by the grant, make sure you have the support you need to make the grant a success. It is …

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Simple Ideas for Hosting a Successful Family Fitness Night

WEBTo help keep the focus around fitness as a whole, another great idea is to have a nurse come to do blood pressure checks, etc., or invite other health and fitness experts from the community to come and set up a booth where they can share their information. Kicking …

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4 Benefits of Cardio Drumming

WEB4 – Drumming produces deeper self-awareness by inducing synchronous brain activity (Hemispheric Coordination) and promoting alpha waves. Studies of the human mind have found that the two sides of a human brain often work at different levels and at different …

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Professional Development: Opportunities are Out There!

WEBBelow are my recommended physical education and health professional development opportunities you should be checking out! 1. National SHAPE America Convention & Expo. I think the most obvious, yet most likely not feasible, opportunity for all health and …

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Four Fun Fitness PE Activities

WEBAs promised in my last blog, the following are fun fitness PE activities to teach students about fitness and provide meaningful fitness experiences.Find many of these fun fitness PE activities and more for free at Dynamic PE ASAP.. Fitness Challenges. Using 30-second …

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First Aid Topics in Physical Education

WEBAs physical educators we teach our students many topics such as: dental hygiene, nutrition, drug and disease prevention, functions of the body systems, solutions to resolve conflict and how to report emergencies. When we educate these students, we give back to our …

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