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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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Jump Rope (Middle School)

Open Phys Ed

It has been known to improve health-related and skill-related fitness components, as well as helping to establish foot work and motor skills that can serve individuals in many other sports or activities. The post Jump Rope (Middle School) appeared first on OPEN Physical Education Curriculum.

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Jump Rope (Middle School)

Open Phys Ed

It has been known to improve health-related and skill-related fitness components, as well as helping to establish foot work and motor skills that can serve individuals in many other sports or activities.

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Curriculum Mapping For Physical Education

PLT4M

This means beginning to plan from the middle school level, with the high school courses in mind. Standard 1: The physically literate individual demonstrates competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns.

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Jump Rope Skills(Intermediate 3-5)

Open Phys Ed

Jump Rope YouTube Playlist Courtesy and thanks to Kids Heart Challenge and North Attleboro Middle School. SIGN UP HERE National Standards and Outcomes Focus for Jump Rope Skills Standard 1. Demonstrates competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns. Outcome [E4.3&5].

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PE Lesson Plans (With Free Downloadble PDFs)

PLT4M

Physical education provides cognitive content and instruction designed to develop motor skills, knowledge, and behaviors for physical activity and physical fitness.” At the elementary school level, you can teach some of the critical gross motor skills and fine motor skills that can be a launching point for future years to come.

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Should Physical Education Be Required?

PLT4M

Instead, Shape outlines physical education as “an academic subject that provides a planned, sequential, K-12 standards-based program of curricula and instruction designed to develop motor skills, knowledge and behaviors for healthy, active living, physical fitness, sportsmanship, self-efficacy, and emotional intelligence.”