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This fall, rather than continually extending the length of this page, we are interested in expanding the site and creating separate pages for many of the sections included on this page. If you are interested in contributing please let us know. This week we have included a new section on "Sports and Coaching." Whether or not it is desirable for PE teachers to also coach may be a topic of debate. However, the fact is that probably a majority of physical educators do coach. We thought it appropriate to try to focus on ways that coaches can make sports a positive experience for our youth. PE
Public Relations
Gerry Cernicky provides a wonderful selection of resources PE teachers can use to promote their programs in the community. The Changing Face of High School PE Students leave high school in Naperville, Ill., with a fitness profile dating to the sixth grade providing a personal history on blood pressure, cholesterol levels, body fat percentage and the student's cardiovascular performance. Featured Web Site PE Zone
The PE Zone is a resource for teachers
and educators interested in promoting health, physical education, and
wellness. Created by Debby Mitchell and physical
education majors at the University of Central Florida. Click
here to join the Exemplary
PE Program Ideas from PE Central
Sharron Werlin Krull presents some of the "theory" behind the need for developmentally appropriate movement activities. Exercise as Punishment? Using exercise as punishment has been named a "hall of shame" practice in physical education because it fosters negative attitudes toward physical activity. Read more...
From "Great Activities" Magic Words Janet Getman has a word game she uses at the beginning of the school year to help her establish class control.
Heart rate monitors, just like balls, hoops and jump ropes, help you teach your students fitness and provide exercise guidelines for a healthy heart and fit body. HEARTalker monitors in PE programs are an excellent tool that will help you teach these lessons more effectively. Can Exercise Asthma Proof Kids? Obesity from lack of exercise, another childhood health crisis, is helping fuel today's asthma epidemic. Overweight children are twice as likely to develop asthma as normal-weight kids,
School Health Index Here's a self-assessment and planning tool that will enable schools to identify the strengths and weaknesses of their physical activity and nutrition policies and programs, and develop an action plan for improving student health.
 In any given year, more than 2.5 million volunteer coaches work with more than 25 million young athletes in the United States. The Positive Coaching Alliance is a nonprofit organization based at Stanford University whose mission is to "transform youth sports so sports can transform youth." Are Athletics Serving their Educational Role? This article by Steve Jefferies recently appeared in the Seattle Times. It questions the prevalent practice of cutting students from the opportunity to participate in school athletic programs. The Physics of Baseball A fantastic collection of materials organized by Alan M. Nathan that can be used to explain the science of this sport.
Can playing with dolls deliver harmful messages to young girls? Why are noncompetitive sports important for girls' development in the early years? How can educators encourage girls to embrace sports?
Throw Like a Girl This video and an accompanying curriculum guide can be used in a variety of educational settings -- ranging from physical education, history, and social studies classes, to general sport programs -- to tell the history and forecast the future of women's and girls' sport in the state of Minnesota. Women and Competition In 1928, Dr. Frederick Rand Rogers, New York state director of physical education, voiced a popular view: Competitive sport is an "unnatural activity for girls." He warned that if girls were to "ape" boys by playing competitive sports, it would be "disastrous to the welfare of both men, women, and society." Read more... |
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If you have not yet sent your support for the PEP Act ($40 million for PE), here is a site from which you can easily send a message. Need more information on the PEP? May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month Since 1983, May has been observed as National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Individuals and organizations everywhere have joined in the fun to promote awareness of the value of physical activity in the pursuit of happier, healthier, more productive lives. Virtual
Sneaker Day - May 19
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Using
Technology in PE
Bonnie Mohnsen's May technology newsletter plus a review of how you might use the Sports Illustrated Awesome Athletes CD in your PE class. Moneysaving - Revitalize Dead Volleyballs You remember the day eight years ago when you ordered those new volleyballs? As instruments of physical education, they have lived full lives but is it time for an honorable volleyball funeral or is there an alternative? Students and teachers in Hood River, Oregon, use a spreadsheet program to track progress in their physical education classes.
Today, technology has a more profound effect on sport than it did in those early years, by literally changing the way most sports are played.
Promoting Physical Activity Through School Physical Education Jim Morrow and colleagues outline how physical education can contribute to the promotion of regular physical activity and its associated fitness and health benefits. National Ability Center A homegrown program for skiers with disabilities becomes a year-round, international institution. Read this month's cover story from Palaestra.
Olympic Flame Lit in Athens - May 10 Calling on the gods of antiquity, the flame that will burn at the Sydney Olympics was ignited today in a ceremony in the ancient birthplace of the games. Sport Science Meets the Olympics Based on the Atlanta Olympics read how technology has changed we way we compete.
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