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Add Movement to the School Day to Boost Student Physical Activity and Learning

SHAPE America

The gym is not the only place where students can move, interact and learn by doing. We need classrooms to be more active and engaging like the gym! As the American College of Sports Medicine puts it, Exercise is Medicine. They perform better on standardized and functional assessments.

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5 BRAND NEW Gopher Exclusive Products for Ultimate Fun!

Gopher Sport

Plus, with their vibrant colors and customizable banners, these pits will add a pop of excitement to any gym or playground. FlipFrenzy Set is a game that combines speed, strategy, and exercise for an electrifying PE session. The AssessPro Jump Board is here to take your vertical jump assessments to the next level.

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Why teach gymnastics in primary school?

Aspire-Ed

The moves, exercises and activities that make up gymnastics help children to understand the way their bodies move, and how these movements can be coordinated and controlled. Gymnasts exercise body and mind. The turn taking that’s involved teaches children about patience, fairness, respect and cooperation.

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Meaningful physical education programs and a 'main theme' curriculum model

Learning Through Sport

By my way of observation, this implication of skill development introduced and developed in a progressive and staged manner seems inherent in many fundamental movement skill assessment and teaching programs. biomechanics, skill acquisition, exercise physiology, etc). dance, swimming, bike riding, fitness, gym), 'outdoor pursuits' (e.g.

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Imagine a New Physical Education

Heartzones

Imagine a new direction in physical education… Imagine having individual exercise data that was immediately sent to student records, the student, and the parents, each day from physical education classes. Guessing is not assessing. We cannot recommend exercise prescriptions to “groups” of individuals.

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What is Physical Literacy?

PLT4M

As a result, we have broadened our answer to better guide our promotion of physical literacy. Check out the definition from The Canadian Assessment of Physical Literacy , “The internationally accepted definition of physical literacy was published during CAPL development. ” (Whitehead M. ” (Whitehead M. link] 2014.)

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Bring STEM Concepts to PE with STEM Sports!

Gopher Sport

STEM Sports has been a game changer for many PE programs across the country, as the curriculum fosters physical literacy with lessons designed for the physically active learner by taking students out of the traditional classroom setting and into the gym or on to the field.

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