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5 Ways to Celebrate PE & Sport Week in Your School … All Year Long!

SHAPE America

Help ALL Kids Develop Fundamental and Foundational Motor Skills To expand “Motor Skills Monday” beyond National PE & Sport week, think of ways to include activities, games and creative opportunities to increase motor skill ability throughout the year. Include foundational skills (e.g.,

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Exercising in the cold

The PE Hub

Whilst a lot of us will be keeping our lessons indoors over the coming days, sometimes exercising in the cold is simply unavoidable. Always keep an eye out for the first signs of hypothermia, which include shivering, loss of motor skills and numbness.

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Elementary PE Lesson Plans

PLT4M

High-quality PE lesson plans play a critical role in helping PE teachers inspire, motivate, and engage their students while teaching valuable skills that extend far beyond the gym. In elementary school, PE introduces students to a wide variety of motor skills, including running, jumping, throwing, catching, balancing, and more.

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Curriculum Mapping For Physical Education

PLT4M

While it isn’t a panacea, physical activity and exercise have been shown to positively influence ALL of these troubling trends. To do so effectively, we must help students find their passion for activity an exercise, which means expanding our curriculum beyond the traditional “games” model.

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So what is adapted physical education?

Arizona Health and Physical Education

specific sensorimotor programming ● specific play or leisure needs ● activities of daily living related to physical education such as dressing, showering or toileting ● positioning during exercises and games ● access to the general curriculum Adapted physical educators are not medical personnel nor are they behavior specialists.

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The Connection Between Athletic Identity and the Yips

AASP

The Yips has been defined as "a psycho-neuromuscular impediment affecting the execution of fine motor skills during sport performance” (Clark et al., Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology. Research quarterly for exercise and sport, 89 (3), 354–360. One common issue is what is commonly referred to as the yips.

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PLT4M and Lakeshore Foundation & NCHPAD Partnership

PLT4M

Instead, physical education teachers must work with appropriate school team members to identify individual needs and accommodations for students with disabilities. PLT4M does have an exercise library of over 3,000 videos that can help to support the accommodations and modifications necessary for students with disabilities.