Open Phys Ed

JANUARY 27, 2025

The 4 Pillars of health we have focused on (Nutrition, Physical Activity, Sleep, and Stress Management/Relaxation) are addressed through a variety of engaging and activity-based lessons. Studies have shown that healthy students get better grades, attend school more, and often behave better in class. SIGN UP HERE

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Physical Education Nutrition Creativity Fitness 69

Relentless School Nurse

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

In the beginning, my passion in nursing was the care of mother’s babies and children but at that time; I could not have known what a perfect fit the profession of School Nursing would be. My creativity and innovation went to good use when developing a plan for cardiac arrest and the reentry of students from psychiatric facilities.

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Skillastics

APRIL 21, 2025

Lets be honest most after-school and expanded learning programs arent staffed with certified fitness trainers or PE teachers. But heres the truth: you dont have to be a fitness expert to foster active, healthy habits in young learners. The truth is children dont need their leaders to act like personal trainers.

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Open Phys Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Plug & Play Fitness activities are among the most popular resources on the OPEN platform – with over 100,000 downloads and counting! This page brings all three Plug & Play modules together for quick and easy access across all grade levels.

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Fitness Fitness Academics Assessment 98

Keeping Kids in Motion

MAY 29, 2023

Noodle fitness creations is a challenge I often use in the beginning of the year, usually as an instant activity. I like to randomly partner up the students reminding them about the importance of being able to work with each and every classmate.

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Fitness Fitness Creativity Physical Education 85

Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

More, Younger Youth sports occupy a special place in American culture, shaping childrens character, health, and social lives. According to a 2019 survey by the Sports & Fitness Industry Association (cited in Aspen Institute, 2021), youth sports participation patterns indicate an increasingly competitive environment.

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Gopher Sport

APRIL 16, 2025

Moreover, gamification offers a creative avenue to disguise skills or activities that students might not naturally favorlike certain fitness exercisesby presenting them as fun, leveled challenges. By doing so, we tap into intrinsic motivation and create a sense of accomplishment, making each lesson not just a class, but an adventure.

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PLT4M

JANUARY 27, 2025

Platforms like Teachers Pay Teachers offer creative ideas, but most schools dont fund these purchases. The Importance of High-Quality Elementary PE Lesson Plans Elementary physical education is about so much more than just games or physical activity; its about laying the foundation for lifelong health, wellness, and physical literacy.

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Open Phys Ed

JANUARY 15, 2024

Jump rope participation provides valuable physical activity experiences for students that provide a relevant context for a variety of fitness-related lessons. Demonstrates the knowledge and skills to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness. Performs intermediate jump-rope skills (e.g.,

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Motor Skills Movement Physical Activity Dance 98

Stanford Childrens

MARCH 3, 2025

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that children spend no more than 40 hours per week listening to a personal audio device (again, at levels no higher than 75 dB). This benefits a childs hearing and also encourages creativity, imagination, learning, physical activity, and more. How long is too long?

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Academics Creativity Physical Activity Exercise 63

Fit and Fun Play

JULY 16, 2024

Discover how before and after school fitness programs can transform your child's energy into a powerhouse of health, happiness and source for academic success!

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Creativity Schooling Academics Fitness 59

FACTS Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Here are a few creative ideas to try: Don’t underestimate the power of words. Listening to the people who regularly show up for your school is critical to not only showing appreciation for teachers but gauging the health of your school’s culture. Show them how they fit into the big picture.

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The Sporting

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Top 8 Sports for Fitness: Your Full Guide to The Best Sports To Improve Fitness While some people thrive in the structured environment of a gym, not everyone feels like they are cut out for the gym grind. But which sports are actually best for fitness? And there’s nothing wrong with that!

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Fitness Fitness Physical Fitness Sports 59

Stanford Childrens

JULY 15, 2024

Beyond the joy of vacations and leisure, these moments together play a pivotal role in nurturing mental and physical health for both your child’s and your own well-being. On a physical level, summer offers ample opportunities for outdoor activities that promote health and well-being.

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Creativity Wellness Health Strength 96

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Over her career, she helped secure over $200,000 of grant funding for implementation of heart rate technology, fitness equipment, and PLT4M. These initial steps can help set school districts on the path for fully funding physical education and health education in schools. How do your needs fit the VISION for your program?

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Physical Education Education Education Assessment 111

Gopher Sport

JUNE 6, 2023

Creativity begins to flow as the skillset (and the brain) grows!!! Encourage movement and creativity and challenge them to explore how they can use the scarf in different ways. Practice Mindfulness and Breathing: Here’s a free lesson from the health. Use scarves as a prop during a dance unit.

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School Yard

JANUARY 7, 2022

Several years ago, I was teaching at a new elementary school and wanted to get my community involved in family fitness events to promote exercising while having fun. Participation continued to grow and one particular day after a race, two parents suggested I start a before-school fitness and running club and offered to help me organize it.

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PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

“The SPARK Grant Finder Tool helps you locate funding for your Physical Education, After School, Early Childhood, Classroom Activity, or Coordinated School Health program. For example, it might be training on teaching a type of fitness subject or how to utilize technology in the classroom better. Let us help!

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Physical Education Education Education Fitness 97

Physical Education Ideas

MARCH 14, 2024

Promotes Physical Activity: Easter games get students up and moving, promoting physical fitness and active lifestyles. From hopping like bunnies to rolling eggs, these activities improve cardiovascular health, coordination, and agility. Here's why incorporating these egg-citing activities can benefit students: 1.

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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. Physical activity can help manage mental health problems. Other mental health disorders like ADHD and PTSD can be managed through exercise. Jasper Smits, Ph.D.,

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Reinventing the Game

APRIL 14, 2022

What process does Fig 1 best fits; 1) The teacher’s thinking process when approaching a learning design? In approaching a teaching scenario, the above diagram, Fig 1 , seems to suggest a possible start with Learner Outcome consideration before moving on to decide our intervention strategy, Teacher Input. Or is it vice versa?

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Physical Education PE Education Education 130

Open Phys Ed

JULY 28, 2021

The free resources provided below are designed to help your students build relationships, build routines, and rebuild a love of health-enhancing physical activity. Team Fitness Adventure (3-5). Webinar Series (Teacher Mental Health). Plug & Play Fitness. Fitness Knowledge. Plug & Play Fitness.

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Schooling Middle School Physical Education Fitness 58

Arizona Health and Physical Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

Families can also participate in the Active Family Challenge and discover creative ways to incorporate PE at home as a family. Active Schools has partnered with OPEN to provide teachers and schools with a variety of tools and resources. There are many ways to celebrate and promote this event, which can be found HERE.

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Physical Education Education Education Creativity 86

Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Jump rope participation provides students with valuable physical activity experiences that provide a relevant context for a variety of fitness-related lessons. Personal Health: (Grade 6) Describes how physical activity positively impacts the body to promote good health.

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Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Jump rope participation provides students with valuable physical activity experiences that provide a relevant context for a variety of fitness-related lessons. Personal Health: (Grade 6) Describes how physical activity positively impacts the body to promote good health.

Middle School 52

Middle School Schooling Motor Skills Physical Activity 52

Keeping Kids in Motion

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Team building with students improves productivity, boosts motivation, increases collaboration, encourages creativity, and enriches communication. As in most physical education programs, it has been a tradition for my team to kick off the school year with two weeks of team building and cooperative activities.

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Creativity Motivation Physical Education Education 90

Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

That was until it was time for the Presidential Fitness Test. Funny enough, these tests were designed to evaluate students for “ military preparedness” more than evaluating fitness. While the Presidential Fitness Test was removed in 2013, the PACER test became a new method of torture. Then it was the week of doom.

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PE Physical Education Movement Exercise 89

Keeping Kids in Motion

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Team building with students improves productivity, boosts motivation, increases collaboration, encourages creativity, and. No matter the age, the skill set for students today should include tools for team building and greater communication skills. For access to the 12 posters click, RECIPE FOR TEAM BUILDING!

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Creativity Motivation Physical Education Fitness 78

Keeping Kids in Motion

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Team building with students improves productivity, boosts motivation, increases collaboration, encourages creativity, and. No matter the age, the skill set for students today should include tools for team building and greater communication skills. For access to the 12 posters click, RECIPE FOR TEAM BUILDING!

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Creativity Motivation Physical Education Fitness 73

Arizona Health and Physical Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Play Facilitators Workshop (PFW) emphasizes core principles, including competence, confidence, connection, character and creativity, to create a joyful and player-centric environment. It certifies coaches as Level 1 upon meeting additional requirements with separate coaching organizations (i.e. RSPA or PTR).

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Coaching Creativity Education Education 77

Whole Child Sports

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That focus tends to overlook mental health and individual variations and is damaging to kids and society. Command-oriented coaching” — the common approach to youth sports — “kills flexibility and self-development and retards creativity and the development of resilience,” Lancaster says. You can start at home, or at local park.

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Sports Sports Sport Creativity 52

Sports for Schools

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The real news from the past few years has been all the research confirming that taking part in sport or physical activity has a (huge) positive impact on your mental and physical health. Yet the fittest five children in a year 6 class today are less fit than the least fit were 20 years ago. Humans are wired to be active.

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Sports Sports Sport Physical Activity 56

School Yard

JUNE 29, 2020

However, with a little creativity, PE teachers can help students safely participate in activities by maintaining physical distance while still promoting skill-building and lifetime fitness. It was a colored grid system and I would like to share that with you to give you some ideas for physical distancing in physical education.

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PLT4M

JUNE 22, 2022

are teaming up to bring fitness, health, and wellness to more learners! Through Stride’s Enrichment Programs, learners will explore and experience fitness on their terms! There has never been a more crucial time to empower individuals with lifelong fitness skills. Hey Stide, Max Isaak here, PLT4M fitness instructor.

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Fitness Fitness Movement Achievement 52

School Yard

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

When families are active together, they spend additional time together and experience health benefits. Create your own fitness calendar. Buy or download/print a blank calendar and write in some fun fitness and healthy lifestyle challenges that everyone in the family can do every day. Family Fitness Calendar.

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Physical Activity Physical Education Education Education 52

Gopher Sport

AUGUST 16, 2024

Her passion for movement and creativity led her to develop a brand that promotes health, joy, and community through hula hooping. Marty is dedicated to encouraging others to embrace fun and fitness in their lives. To learn more about the story of CHulaHoopsUSA, you can visit [link] Win an Original & Extreme!

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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. Free Fitness Lessons For P.E. Physical education teachers pushed to go from a traditional game and sports model to a more comprehensive fitness and wellness model. Where Did Physical Fitness In School Go?

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