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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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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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Reasons Movement Teaches Kids to Think and Learn Differently

Skillastics

Studies have proven that physical movement helps kids improve their memory, increase their motivation, and improve motor skills. Movement and physical activity truly helps kids think and learn differently. Exercise was proven to: Increase the number of neurotransmitters in the brain. Absolutely.

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Health Benefits Of Physical Education In Schools

PLT4M

Instead, it helps to empower them with motor skills, physical literacy, and a vast array of other health and wellness tools to promote overall health. ” Instead, PE classes have a scope and sequence that builds and develops students’ skills and understanding of different types of physical fitness and exercise.

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Adapted Physical Education – The Call For Inclusion

PLT4M

He has taught physical education at preschool, elementary, and high school levels and courses related to exercise science, coaching, health, and wellness at the university level. One of the simplest ways of adapting an activity is to modify or substitute the movement involved.

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Evidence Based Practices In Education

PLT4M

Physical education provides students with a planned, sequential, K-12 standards-based program of curricula and instruction designed to develop motor skills, knowledge and behaviors for active living, physical fitness, sportsmanship, self-efficacy and emotional intelligence.”

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A Bridge Between the Concrete and Abstract

Montessori Physical Education

From a solely concrete perspective, they are using sports balls to work on different gross motor skills. In a traditional PE class, the physical gross motor movement practice is the beginning and the end. However, in this lesson, the sports balls represent another concept the students are learning about.