Open Phys Ed

MAY 28, 2024

Created by: LaDonda Porter, Shannon Maly, Stephanie Dickson, Dan Tennessen, Nichole Wilder Special Contributions by: Aaron Hart, Andrea Hart, Eliza Kuhn Introducing middle school students to golf brings with it opportunities for both physical and mental growth.

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SHAPE America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

What if the entire school and community applauded students for developing the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to be health-literate individuals ? As a middle school health and physical education teacher, I know first-hand that initiatives impacting the whole school and surrounding community can be powerful.

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Open Phys Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

The post Volleyball (Middle School) appeared first on OPEN Physical Education Curriculum. (Grade 8) Applies rules and etiquette by acting as an official for modified physical activities/games or creating dance routines within a given set of parameters.

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SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

Start a Multisport Camp at Your School When teaching and coaching youngsters the rules, tactics and strategies of sports, the focus especially during the early years is to help them learn a variety of sports (sports sampling) and encourage multisport participation. Show how these skills are developed across sport.

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Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

The post Flag Football (Middle School) appeared first on OPEN Physical Education Curriculum. Working with Others: Accepts differences among classmates in physical development, maturation, and varying skill levels by providing encouragement and positive feedback.

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Open Phys Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The post Team Invasion (Middle School) appeared first on OPEN Physical Education Curriculum. Demonstrates the importance of social interaction by helping and encouraging others, avoiding trash talk, and providing support to classmates.

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SHAPE America

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Ask, Listen, Learn Supports Health Literacy Designed alongside a team of educators and organizations specializing in elementary and middle school, the Ask, Listen, Learn underage drinking prevention program consists of 7 animated videos with accompanying lesson plans and activities that are ready for you to use.

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Gopher Sport

APRIL 15, 2024

Volleyball is a hard sport to teach to lower grades but with the right equipment and proper cues and progressions it can be a fun engaging unit in your physical education program. Serving: Unique Teaching Cues: Meatball on a plate Your heel (of your strong hand) is the fork to hit the meatball off the plate.

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Relentless School Nurse

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Schools can only go so far in teaching civics, citizenship, whether in person and digitally, kindness and consideration. Not to mention the school districts that are micro-managing the content of classes where critical thinking is introduced. Of course, this trend trickles down to school.

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Heartzones

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

“ What I like most about using Heart Zones is being able to refocus my time, attention, and efforts on teaching rather than crowd control.” Chad Oates, the physical educator at Mabry Middle School, has been teaching since 2008. ” What was your first experience with Physical Education technology? .”

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Human Kinetics

MARCH 22, 2021

In the presentation below, Human Kinetics Director of Sales Holly Whitaker gives an overview of Live Well Middle School Health and its balance between content coverage and skills-based learning while giving you flexibility you need to reach all of your students, whether in-person learning or remote learning. . . . .

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Open Phys Ed

MARCH 20, 2022

OPEN and Rising New York Road Runners have joined forces to bring you The Adventure Mile for Middle School. Students will also benefit from the Form 101 component of this module, which teaches fundamental athletic skills, running posture, leg movements, and arm movements. Design: Jennifer Truong & Aaron Hart.

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Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The post Jump Rope (Middle School) appeared first on OPEN Physical Education Curriculum. (Grade 8) Responds appropriately to participants’ ethical and unethical behavior during physical activity by using rules and guidelines for resolving conflicts.

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Open Phys Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The post Health & Wellness (Middle School) appeared first on OPEN Physical Education Curriculum. Working with Others: (6) Accepts differences among classmates in physical development, maturation, and varying skill levels by providing encouragement and positive feedback. (7)

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Jessica is a physical education teacher at Lewiston High School in Lewiston, Idaho teaching. She is the 2012 SHAPE National Middle School. Jessica is National Board certified, has her NASM personal training certification and Yoga Education Teaching Teens certification. committees, P.E. committees, P.E.

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Alexandra Lemm

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

At our last district professional development, I had the honor of presenting one of my very favorite teaching topics, stations with intervention ! For elementary school teachers, intervention might be something that is done weekly and can be handled with your eyes closed. In fact, it can be a foreign concept altogether.

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AKA Sports

APRIL 21, 2021

Teens don’t always make the best decisions for their health so it is our responsibility to teach them and to provide them opportunities to make the healthier choices each day. Explain WHY you are making these changes and you may be surprised to see they will start to make these changes too.

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Gopher Sport

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Time should be set aside at the start of the year to teach students movement competence concepts related to walking. This was developed for middle school students (grades 6-8), it is easily adapted and would be encouraged for all ages, especially secondary schools. What to Teach? This is intentional walking.

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Montessori Physical Education

AUGUST 20, 2023

When I present at conferences, one of the most common questions is, “How can I teach sportsmanship to my students?” In the Montessori setting, the question of sportsmanship could be restated as, “How do I teach Grace and Courtesy in PE?” This begs the question, why is it so challenging to teach sportsmanship?

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

How You Can Create an Environment that Promotes Respect Caregivers, schools, and communities can all work together to build supportive environments. To create an environment that promotes respect, try to: Teach students about different cultures and religions to discourage stereotypes. Model the behaviors you want to see from kids.

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Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 8, 2024

One of the unique things about my school is that we design a special sports unit for the 5th graders that will introduce them to the sports we offer in middle school. Skills I choose to focus on in this PE unit are: serves [mainly underhand], passing, setting, and I teach the very basics of hitting.

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Teaching Teaching Middle School Creativity 52

Montessori Physical Education

OCTOBER 16, 2022

With our middle school volleyball season ending soon, I wanted to strike while the creative iron was hot. I probably will not pull them out again until it is time for middle school boys' volleyball in the spring. So what could I do that is volleyball themed and could teach a cool concept from the classroom?

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Montessori Physical Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

This fantastic new game teaches your students about meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites! When I played this game with my middle school students, I noticed that it did a much better job of practicing volleyball skills than Newcomb. This is because middle students are savvy and will purposely waste time if they are ahead.

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Montessori Physical Education

JULY 23, 2022

They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. What they didn’t say is that an old dog can teach itself new tricks. I soon realized how I could completely overhaul the old hybrid plants lesson into one that teaches Punnett Squares. It didn’t fully explain why some things inherit certain traits and others did not.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Focus on teaching lifelong skills in various domains and units to prepare students for an active future. Schedule a demo Participation in PE – A Playbook For Success It is incumbent on school districts to create a plan and playbook to maximize participation in PE for all students.

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PLT4M

MAY 15, 2024

The program provides versatile classroom resources to facilitate conversations about the effects of alcohol on the developing brain with your students, while teaching them about the scientific effects of what they put in their bodies. The program also provides one lesson on how underage cannabis use impacts the developing brain.

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PLT4M

JULY 18, 2023

Curriculum mapping offers teachers and schools opportunities to think big picture, explore best practices, and improve the learning process for students. This entails teaching fundamental prerequisites and implementing an elective model that enhances student participation by offering a more comprehensive range of choices.

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Montessori Physical Education

AUGUST 28, 2022

Years ago, we started a club team that scrimmaged a neighboring school and were working on joining a league. Now it is back, and we are starting with a girls' middle school season, and the boys will play in the spring. We will scrimmage a few schools from the league we are trying to join, and I am hopeful we will join next year.

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PLT4M

DECEMBER 15, 2022

For instance, when a math teacher has to teach a unit on multiplication, they don’t typically create lesson plans on their own. So take a deep dive into your grade level and see if any of the resources provided can help you build out your PE lessons for an entire school year. . Physical education should do the same!

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Implicit – Strength Training Activity A fitness center or weight room is a fantastic place to teach the skills of responsible decision-making. T: True H: Helpful I: Inspiring N: Necessary K: Kind Implicit – Pickleball Activity Games are excellent SEL activities for high school students.

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Better Coaching

OCTOBER 5, 2024

This article delves into the reasons why young athletes should avoid tackle football until at least middle school, focusing on head trauma risks, coaching competency, and the benefits of flag football as a foundational experience. However, this fear is unfounded. See information on the MAC above.

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Open Phys Ed

JULY 28, 2021

Still Teaching Remotely? Middle School (6-8) Start The Year Here. Still Teaching Remotely? High School (9-12) Start The Year Here. Still Teaching Remotely? The post Back to School Resources appeared first on OPEN Physical Education Curriculum. Yoga & Mindfulness. Plug & Play Fitness.

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Human Kinetics

MARCH 22, 2021

By Adam Mullis, Middle School Health and Physical Education Teacher and Coach. In the presentation below, Adam Mullis discusses the process of planning a curriculum for teaching students online, in-person, and a hybrid model. He also shares games and actives to engage all students. . . Presentation Material.

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Stanford Childrens

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In high school and college, Wilson took on his first mentoring role as the captain of various sports teams. Part of the responsibility of being a captain was to develop, inspire, and teach younger members of the team, and that really stuck with me,” he says.

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Montessori Physical Education

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The student being held back is almost always from upper elementary or middle school. This is not a good lesson to teach our students. An integrated PE program becomes a teaching aid instead of a holding cell. The pressures of academic achievement mean that things are sacrificed at the altar of grades.

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Open Phys Ed

JANUARY 15, 2024

Jump Rope YouTube Playlist Courtesy and thanks to Kids Heart Challenge and North Attleboro Middle School. Jump rope participation provides valuable physical activity experiences for students that provide a relevant context for a variety of fitness-related lessons.

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PLT4M

APRIL 22, 2024

At PLT4M, we recommend teaching gymnastic skills to the entire class allowing ample students time to practice the movements together. Key Takeaways on Gymnastics Lesson Plans Gymnastics lessons can be an excellent addition for elementary and middle school physical education classes!

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