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Using the City as Your Physical Education Classroom

SHAPE America

My focus in physical education centers on equity and inclusion in fitness, particularly access to fitness options in underserved communities of color. Too often, when I introduce new sports or fitness activities, my predominantly African American students say, “That’s a white sport.”

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Fun Winter Activities for Elementary PE

SHAPE America

Here are a few winter activities for elementary PE that include opportunities to practice personal responsibility, cultural studies, and physical fitness outside.

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

SHAPE America

SHAPE America’s National Physical Education & Sport Week (May 1-7) is a celebration of the importance of physical education and sport in the lives of kids of all ages. The week also serves as the kickoff to National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.

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Is Physical Education (PE) Universal?

Reinventing the Game

There needs to be a very strong belief in our attempts to educate physically and this means much more than ensuring physical fitness and teaching a certain number of games. Many a times we unfairly relegate our efforts to merely ensuring physical fitness and the teaching of X number of games.

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Meaningful physical education programs and a 'main theme' curriculum model

Learning Through Sport

Physical activity and fitness orientated physical education. The main goal of this curriculum model is to provide students with the skills, knowledge and disposition to maintain lifetime physical activity through a health-related curricular focus that promotes physical activity. Fitness for life. Collard, M.

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The Most Popular Sports in the World

The Sporting

The 10 Most Popular Sports In the World Sports as a form of recreation have been around for over 3,000 years. Many people participate in sports to stay healthy and fit; others use it as a way to socialise, meet new people and make friends. It is accessible to everyone, regardless of age, physical fitness and economic situation.

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Structures and Ecology: Linear facilitation processes vis-à-vis non-linear developmental processes in Physical Education (PE)

Reinventing the Game

Majority of them will not carry on with facilitated, deliberate learning of skills like sports and explicit physical fitness type activities. This is oppose to starting off with specific character traits or cognitive wants and trying to fit into a learning experience. The mind is the body and the body is the mind.