Gopher Sport

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Spider Crawls: Get into a plank position and crawl forward, moving one arm and the opposite leg at the same time, mimicking a spider’s movement. Get creative and hang bats or ghosts from the top of the Hockey net. Skeleton Skip: Students skip through the ladder, adding a playful skip to their movements like dancing skeletons.

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The Sporting

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The author, and Lithuanian international gymnast, Neringa Masionyete, in action Gymnastics has its roots in Ancient Greece and Egypt, where some recorded evidence on pottery of women dancing with balls was found. With its influences in ballet, theatre and modern dance, rhythmic gymnastics took its current form in the 20th century.

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Learning Through Sport

JUNE 30, 2021

Developments in curriculum frameworks around the world have formalised a rationale for critical thinking, problem solving and creativity in PE as elements in both curriculum design and in the wording of student achievement standards. Critical thinking can be learned.

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Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Recent evidence suggests that adding developmentally appropriate cognitive demands to patterned movement stimulates executive function and the precursor skills to reading and math ( Paschen et al., The ability to synchronize movements with rhythm is fundamental to children’s ability to pull to a stand, walk, run, skip, and gallop.

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Skillastics

AUGUST 22, 2022

Get creative Change the scenery, order of exercise, or even topic. Creativity prevents boredom, and mixing it up a little bit keeps your program fresh. Add music Whether it’s at the end of the day for good behavior, or all afternoon long, what kid doesn’t love dancing along to cool tunes?

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Teen Health 101

MAY 17, 2022

Exercise is known to affect your physical health substantially, but movement also has many benefits on your mental health and well-being. Mindful movement is also a helpful distraction from anxiety and helps one become more present. By: Jaclyn Kotora, Contributing Writer. Edited by: Olivia Storti, Editor; Elias Azizi, Editor in Chief.

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PLT4M

JUNE 22, 2022

About Stride Enrichment Programs Stride Enrichment Programs help ignite interests in teens and adults and encourage them to learn new skills, build a portfolio of creative work, and foster long-lasting friendships and professional connections. ? We need to dedicate time to movement and activity.

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Skillastics

AUGUST 22, 2022

Get creative. Creativity prevents boredom, and mixing it up a little bit keeps your program fresh. If you don’t, find other ways to incorporate that creative touch, from inviting different kids to be the leader-of-the-day, to rewarding hard work with acknowledgement and affirmations.

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The Sporting

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Greatest Ever Rhythmic Gymnasts Rhythmic gymnastics – a sport combining ballet, dance and theatre into one spectacular performance. The goal of rhythmic gymnastics is to amaze the judges with precisely planned routines, employing hand-held apparatus and a variety of jaw-dropping movements that cover the whole surface of the carpet.

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PLT4M

JULY 15, 2022

We celebrated the ingenuity of physical education teachers and students to find creative ways to workout at home. In doing so, students are introduced to new units like functional fitness, yoga, weightlifting, dance, mindfulness, and other lifelong activities. Then you will be assigned a movement. That is 4 minutes! Find a Time.

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PLT4M

JUNE 5, 2023

As an added layer of differentiated learning strategies, we also provide extra support for how to scale and modify the movement to address the different levels that students can try the skill of a push-up. The Push Up: Movement Scaling Real, full range of motion push ups are HARD. So let’s take a closer look!

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PLT4M

JULY 19, 2023

For example, fitness education typically starts with foundational human movement patterns (squat, lunge, hinge, press, pull) and builds lifelong physical fitness skills in various fitness activity options like yoga, dance, pilates, weight lifting, and more. Check out a sample lesson below from PLT4M Bodyweight Bootcamp.

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Spark PE

JANUARY 14, 2022

All in-person recreation was closed, including youth sports, dance, martial arts, and exercise classes. It was encouraging that people quickly developed creative approaches to stay active and help their children continue activities. In many places, parks, playgrounds, trails, and even beaches were closed.

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