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Using the City as Your Physical Education Classroom

SHAPE America

Our bikes became tools for community service, whether it was cleaning up litter at Ridge Road Recreation or handing out water to protesters at Black Lives Matter Plaza. The answer to the first was a unanimous “Yes,” but the silence following the second question spoke volumes.

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How to ‘Spring’ Into Physical Activity During National PE & Sport Week

SHAPE America

Investigate local parks and recreation organizations that offer summer camps, activities, or sports teams and enroll your children in activities that interest them. Make new friends through movement. Search for local parks and recreation and/or sports organizations in your area. Make it a friendly competition.

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

SHAPE America

Include at least three motor skills and one foundational movement skill every Motor Skill Monday (every day is even better!) Locomotor skills are the fundamental motor skills we most often associate with successful movement, especially in sports. Be creative and include them in games and movement challenges.

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Active Schools – 2024 Highlights

Active Schools Us

They also published an open-access article in JOPERD titled Promoting an Active School: Tools, Resources, & Recognition, published in the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance. Champions like you are vital to the Active Schools movement. As we look ahead to 2025, we are energized by the possibilities.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Celebrating the Legacy of Shannon Watts & the Legions of Moms, 10 Million Strong

Relentless School Nurse

Moms Demand Action is a national grassroots movement of Americans fighting for public safety measures that can protect people from gun violence. Now one of the largest grassroots movements in the country, Moms Demand Action has established a volunteer chapter in every U.S. state and Washington, D.C.

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Transfer of learning in physical education

Learning Through Sport

In this curriculum design there is insufficient time for the volume of practice required through deliberate play and practice to master technical and tactical skills of an activity to the level where a student previously not playing the sport can reach at least a social-recreational level of ability to play/participate in the activity.

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THE PITFALLS OF 'MORE, YOUNGER' MINDSET Why Starting Kids Too Early and Pushing Them Too Hard Can Backfire in Youth Sports

Better Coaching

Children have shorter limbs and different leverage points compared to adults, which influences their biomechanics during movements like throwing, kicking, or running. Cross-Training: Encourage children to engage in multiple sports, thereby distributing repetitive stresses across different muscle groups and movement patterns.

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