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5 Tips for Teaching Physical Education Without a Gym

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Are you losing your gym space for a class period, a day, a week or longer? At some point, most physical education teachers have had to give up the gym for a concert, rehearsal, assembly, construction, or other school/community activity. And, although teaching PE without a gym is not ideal, it is possible. It’s not unusual.

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Introducing Students to New Lifetime Sports in a Mobile PE Class

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A Different Type of PE Class This is my 13th year of teaching physical education, but I have also taught other subjects along the way, such as health, wellness and weightlifting. Rock climbing at LEF Climbing gym in Lexington, KY. As a PE teacher, you already know the gym gets stolen from you all the time.

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Using the City as Your Physical Education Classroom

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and as students slowly file into the gym, curiosity fills the air. The 20-minute bike ride serves as more than a “gym class.” It shows my students the bigger picture: locations, costs and customers who typically have access to these different health and wellness spaces. The bell rings at 9 a.m.

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What I’ve Learned About Spreading Kindness in My School — on World Kindness Day and Throughout the Year

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such as teamwork, gratitude, kindness, wellness, and mindfulness. KYSHAPE provides daily slides with prompts, as well as activities and social media posts for each daily theme that administrators, health and physical educators, and other classroom teachers can use. The impact of health.

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

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The gym is not the only place where students can move, interact and learn by doing. We need classrooms to be more active and engaging like the gym! If we pause to take a panoramic view of our current landscape, we are reminded that our country has an obesity epidemic, rise in hypokinetic diseases, as well as mental health concerns.

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Fun Winter Activities for Elementary PE

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Sledding I have had PE classes where students have needed to work on taking turns, sharing, watching out for others, respecting personal space and others’ property, as well as working on spatial awareness. This is one of the students’ favorite PE activities every year!

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How to Build a Home Gym on a Budget: 6 Easy Steps

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6 Easy Steps to Build a Great Gym at Home Say goodbye to gymtimidation and hello to home workouts! Home gym equipment In this article, we’ll show you how to transform your living room into a muscle palace without draining your bank account. You'll be saving your hard-earned money from gym memberships and personal training.

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