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Creating an Effective Health and Wellness Club at School

SHAPE America

As a physical education teacher at Hebron High School in Carrollton, TX, I developed a Health and Wellness Club for our ninth-grade campus as an initiative to reduce obesity and related comorbidities that are associated with sedentary lifestyles and a lack of physical activity.

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

SHAPE America

Elementary students get the majority of their movement during the school day in physical education (PE) and recess. It is estimated that kids get about 5,000-6,000 steps during school on non-PE days and 7,000-8,000 steps on PE days. All three of these tenants of PE can be better utilized in classroom settings.

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Frequency of Physical Education Affects Adult Obesity Levels

Physical Education Update

( I don’t normally do this, but here’s an article directly from the pages of the PE Update.com website). “As public health officials wring their hands about the obesity epidemic, there’s a solution that is relatively low-cost, ready to implement and obvious to anyone involved in school health and physical education.

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Precision in Physical Education (PE) – What is its role?

Reinventing the Game

Precision in Physical Education (PE) – What is its role? There was a time where the age group I deal with are supposed to be ready for their enlistment in the uniform-groups via their fitness lessons in schools ) To a large extent, precision also plays a big part of how the fraternity exhibits in delivering PE.

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Obesity, Hunger, Inactivity and the Search for Hidden Answers

Physical Education Update

It raises some interesting questions about our perception of the causes of obesity, hunger and lack of activity. ” Dick Moss, Editor, PE Update.com To check out the PE Update.com website, Click Here! To subscribe to the free Fun Stuff for PE Newsletter, Click Here!

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Politicians! We Need a National Fitness Strategy and a New National Identity!

Physical Education Update

A 2004 study at Queens University in Kingston Ontario, determined that the economic burden of physical activity and obesity in Canada represented $3.2 An American study determined that the total costs from obesity alone, in 1995, was $99.2 Dick Moss, Editor, PE Update.com. To check out the PE Update.com website, Click Here!

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Irish Physical Activity Campaign

Physical Education Update

Childhood obesity and inactivity is a phenomenon in every affluent, developed country in the world. Dick Moss, Editor, PE Update.com To check out the PE Update.com website, click here Physical Education Update [tags]physical education,physical activity campaigns,physical fitness for children> [/tags]