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Creating an Effective Health and Wellness Club at School

SHAPE America

As a physical education teacher at Hebron High School in Carrollton, TX, I developed a Health and Wellness Club for our ninth-grade campus as an initiative to reduce obesity and related comorbidities that are associated with sedentary lifestyles and a lack of physical activity. The results were promising: 63.2% learned about the U.S.

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Add Movement to the School Day to Boost Student Physical Activity and Learning

SHAPE America

Elementary students get the majority of their movement during the school day in physical education (PE) and recess. It is estimated that kids get about 5,000-6,000 steps during school on non-PE days and 7,000-8,000 steps on PE days. All three of these tenants of PE can be better utilized in classroom settings.

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Obesity, Hunger, Inactivity and the Search for Hidden Answers

Physical Education Update

It raises some interesting questions about our perception of the causes of obesity, hunger and lack of activity. It was delivered by professor Tim Noakes, Head of the UCT Exercise Science and Sports Medicine Research Unit and involved a book published in the early 1860s by a very fat undertaker, William Banting.

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Get Out of Your Armchair Video Promotes the Benefits of Exercise

Physical Education Update

Here’s a funny video about the benefits of exercise and the disadvantages of inactivity. Obesity and inactivity isn’t just a North American problem. Obesity and inactivity isn’t just a North American problem. Dick Moss, Editor, PE Update.com. To check out the PE Update.com website, click here.

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Irish Physical Activity Campaign

Physical Education Update

Childhood obesity and inactivity is a phenomenon in every affluent, developed country in the world. This video describes an easy way for children to get in an hour of exercise every day. It’s not just North Americans who have begun to realize the importance of physical activity for children. Here’s one example.

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Want Smarter Kids with More Brain Cells? Give Them Daily Physical Education in School!

Physical Education Update

However, exercise does. Not only has academic performance improved school-wide, so has behavior and childhood obesity levels. Dick Moss, Editor, PE Update.com. To check out the PE Update.com website, click here. They also happen to engage all students in quality daily physical education. Have a great year!

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The Urgency for Applying Individualized Instruction in Physical Education & Sports

Heartzones

Applying the principles for intense exercise requires immediate feedback. These principles of individualized instruction, in group settings, become impossible to implement for intense exercise, when there is no immediate feedback. What individual exercise intensity records are documented from physical education or sport?