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Creating an Effective Health and Wellness Club at School

SHAPE America

Activities during the first half included short lessons on the recommended guidelines, goal-setting exercises, discussions on how to incorporate more physical activity into daily routines, group competitions on the guidelines, and baseline and follow-up assessments. The results were promising: 63.2% learned about the U.S.

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Tips for Teaching Media Literacy in Skills-Based Health Education

SHAPE America

Teaching media literacy in skills-based health education can do just that. Media literacy is the ability to: Decode media messages and the systems in which they exist; Assess the influence of those messages on your thoughts, feelings and behaviors; and Create media thoughtfully and conscientiously. What Is Media Literacy?

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Teaching Lacrosse in Physical Education Using the New USA Lacrosse Curriculum

SHAPE America

No matter how you refer to it, lacrosse is a great game to teach your students in physical education class! Using the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework while teaching lacrosse in PE will allow you to provide multiple options within the learning environment, thus creating equity and accessibility for ALL students.

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How to Teach Students About Death in the Health Education Classroom (or Any Classroom)

SHAPE America

When we teach students about death in health education, we can help them understand life, empathy, and resilience. Here are five tips on how to teach students about death in the health education classroom (or any classroom). Jessica shares lessons, assessments, and curriculum suggestions on social media ( @CoachMatheson ).

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How Physical Education Plays a Core Role in Student Development

Speaker: Shane Pill PhD, MEd, BEd, LMACHPER, FACHPER - Physical Education and Sports Researcher, Professor, Consultant, and Speaker

It's when teachers are educationally purposeful and strengths-based in their planning, teaching, and assessment that physical education achieves the three dimensions of education in, through, and about movement.

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Using Ask, Listen, Learn’s Underage Drinking Prevention Curriculum in Your Classroom

SHAPE America

As health educators, it is important to teach our students to be health literate. By using best practices in health education, specifically a skills-based health approach, health educators teach and assess health literacy skills that students will use throughout the rest of their lives.

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New PE-learning feature on TheEverLearner.com: Centralised Assessment Models

The Everlearner

The learning feature I am referring to is Centralised Assessment Models (CAMs). Another term for them could be Jamess Assessment Models or TEL Assessment Models. If you are an AQA GCSE PE teacher and interested in being part of our testing group for these new assessment models, please register your interest here.)