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Research Guide
This important expose covers resources for coaches, teachers, and health care and fitness professionals. There is an index for research digests and publications, an active life issue for exercise, and physical activity and health information. The tips for fufit kids include easy exercises and nutrition tips.
Heart Foundation
For this site you will need the Flash Player to learn about the heart in animation form that will answer questions about what the heart looks like, its size, its location, and how to take care of the heart. Other link connections lead to information about the food pyramid, exercising the heart, and tobacco concerns.
Bodies in Motion
Find out the basics of getting in shape, diet and exercise, issues of smoking, drugs and alcohol, self fitness test, and establishing an attitude to set goals.
Locker Room
Click the buttons at this site to learn about your favorite sports, facts, and helpful hints.
Ideas That Work
Check out these ideas that have worked for teachers from all subject areas that includes behavior management, grading, public relations, and technology.
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Calculators
Whether you're still wiping the sweat from your workout, or just tying on your sneakers, Nutricise's calculators offer you information to get you started safely and the data to help you understand the true effectiveness of your fitness routine. Scroll down to find out what you just burned, how much fat is still hanging on, your target heart rate, and how much you should lift to avoid injury.
Activity Calorie Calculator
Want to know how many calories you just burned? Here's how to find out. This calculator lets you select from a wide range of activities and tells you how many calories you unloaded based on your weight, and how long you did the activity. The more specific you can be about what you did, the more accurate the results. Of course, you'll also need to know how long you did it and how much you weigh.
One Rep Max Calculator
This calculator estimates how much weight you could lift one time for any exercise, based on weight and repetitions you specify, and gives percentages of the result ranging from 30 to 100.
Target Heart Rate
This calculator tells you your cardiovascular training zones. You can use the results to make sure you are exercising at the correct intensity. All you need to know is your age.
Karvonen Training Heart Rate Zone
Here's another way to figure your heart-rate training zones. This one takes your resting heart rate into account. To find your resting heart rate, take your pulse for a full 60 seconds first thing in the morning before you get out of bed. You'll also need to know your age, but who doesn't know that?
Body Mass Index Calculator
Body mass index is a way of estimating how much fat a person has, and therefore whether he or she should lose weight. This calculator finds your body mass index.
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We are in the early stages of the elementary physical education web page for PELinks4U. We are partially dependent on your contributions to make this a successful site. Send me an email with your thoughts and ideas and become a part of this exciting new online magazine/newsletter. Thank you.
Gerry Cernicky
Section Editor
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Dodgeball - The Great Debate
There is an article in Sports Illustrated by Ric Reilly that discusses this debate. Check it out.
Fitness Category?
A recent Roper Starch survey found that people who exercise fit into one of six categories:
Social Competitors: 20% prefer competitive to solitary fitness activities. They exercise for fun and camraderie.
Abracadabras: 14% tend to be out of shape and have no desire to exercise.
Balanced Holistics: 13% take a balanced approach to exercise, and are likely to be in shape and exercise regularly.
Sitcom Skeptics: 13% pride themselves in not falling for the exercise craze. They believe good diet and exercise aren't necessary.
Woulda/Shouldas: 12% tend to be out of shape and are self-conscious. They exercise less than the general public because they are undisciplined.
Conscientious Preventors: 8% stay fit to help a medical condition or prevent health problems.
About one in five Americans do not fit easily into any of these groups. They are known as the Unresolved Undecideds.
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Make a Difference
As the old man walked the beach at dawn he noticed a youth ahead of him picking up starfish and flinging them into the sea. Finally, catching up with the youth, he asked him why he was doing this. The answer was that the stranded starfish would die if left in the morning sun.
"But the beach goes on for miles, and there are millions of starfish," countered the old man. "How can your effort make any difference?"
The young man looked at the starfish in his hand and then threw it to the safety of the waves. "It make a difference to this one," he said.
~ Brian Cavanaugh ~
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2001 PE Challenge
Although all the free pins for the 2001 PE Challenge have already been reserved, you can still order them or print your own "Challenge" certificates. Don't be left out! Even though the challenge is over, it is not too early to think about joining the hundreds of teachers that compose a myriad of tests to challenge the students.
Fitness Profile
Why not try something new to spice up your warm-up/exercise routine? Establish a 30-second station workout that includes the following: check heart rate, modified pull-ups, AB crunch on scooters, rope jumping, crab push-ups, step test, jump and reach, and run for fun.
It is an individual effort that each student does each week to improve on a previous performance. After each test they record the score, wait for a 15 second interlude, and move to the next station. The profile is kept in a folder.
After the stations, have the students take their active heart rate and compare the results. The modified pull-ups are done with a bike tube looped on the bar. The crunch is done with feet off the floor(kneeling) and push the scooter 3 feet ahead. Rope jump for 30 seconds and count the attained number. The crab push-ups are done on the first row of bleachers. The step test in on the first row of bleachers - up, up, down, down.
Jump and reach is marked from a vertical jump to a marked number on the wall. Run for fun is around the 4 corners of the v-ball lines.
After the stations, compare the resting heart rate with the active heart rate.
Note: Play upbeat music for 30 seconds, wait for 15 seconds, then write scores on the profile sheet. Switch to the next station until completion.
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Hot Ideas from Integration Sites
Tutorial
Here is an interesting site that must be visited as a guide to learning the basic tips and guides to incorporate into a good web page, along with valuable information about using a computer.
PowerPoint
Learn all the tricks and techniques for making a PowerPoint presentation - from adding slides, images, and sounds - to using presentations as a dynamic tool for pubic relations.
Worksheets
Learn how to make worksheets, rubrics, project-based learning checklists, and quizzes.
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Electrifier
Want a new way to spice up a homepage with dramatic music, text, animations, and lessons? Then, find your way to this site for an easy tutorial and template, but be aware that this program is for ad or auctions. Instead place any text in the blank spaces to change the format . Just in case move over to Bits and Bytes for an example. Go to Helpful Hints, and you will need the Flash Player to view the show.
BrainPop
This is another welcome addition to any homepage for an animated view of online quizes, lessons, and activity pages. It is broadcast by cartoon characters that present material in an easy, but effective way to teach.
Cooperative Discipline
Included in this valuable resource are class management styles, strategies for success, and codes of conduct.
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Idaho Department of Education
Check out this states curriculum and skill based instruction through a scope and sequence guide. All of this can be found using the above link.
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Water Safety
A Government initiative which includes a public awareness campaign, educational materials, lots of safety information, and fun games for kids with a water safety emphasis.
The Energy Calculator
The Energy Calculator is an internet-based program that will calculate the amount of energy you expend in a day. You can choose between two options - advanced or simple.
Ethnic & Regional Cooking
This is a site with links and recipes for African, Japanese, Jewish, Thai, and French cooking. Also information about the culture, and special ingredients.
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