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By the time you read this "Elementary PE" edition at PELinks4U, some of you will have been out of school for a few weeks. I will just be finishing my year and will have completed another field day. Get out and enjoy the summer, but don't neglect keeping up with the "New PE" and re-thinking your approach to teaching physical education. With all the current media emphasizing the new direction we are taking, let your community be a part of this rebirth of physical education. Paula Summit Section Editor

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Start a Unicycle club at your school As a before, or after school program, this unique k-12 sport keeps groups of children occupied and active while providing overwhelming benefits. Unicycling clubs contribute considerably to the physical fitness and emotional well-being of the child through the enhancement of the child's self-esteem, confidence, physical fitness, balance, strength, and team spirit. Add this sport to your school's physical education curriculum and see results. We have made it easy, and we have even found affordable unicycles that will hold up as one learns.

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne

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New Phys Ed favors Fitness over Sport By Kathy Slobogin (CNN)- "For many baby boomers, physical education class was daily torture. Slow children were sitting ducks for dodge ball, while klutzes were subject to humiliation, hoping against hope they wouldn't be picked last for a team. Not only were there scars, but it now appears those P. E. classes weren't especially good at developing long-term fitness. Read the rest of this article... MEDtropolis MEDtropolis has a virtual body where you can build a skeleton, view an animated heart, along with brain and digestive system. Clicking on the skeleton allows you to drag bones from a pile to re-create the skeleton.

Instant Activities PE Central presents a large number of Instant Activity ideas for you to use to get your PE classes off to an vigorous start. Sports and Fitness Festival submitted by Laurie Hinman Extend the physical education curriculum beyond what can be offered in regular PE classes, and expose students to new sports and activities which lead them to a healthy lifestyle.

Apple Learning Interchange Search on Apple's Learning Interchange page for physical education resources. Choose Physical Education for the subject and submit a search. You can find many activities and subjects, and also contribute to their files. PECentral is one of "Today's Picks" under "Learning Resources" as I write this issue! Games from Around the World This site offers some games from a few different countries. MSG Play It Up Here's a site for kids and sports that reviews a "MSG for Kids" TV show. Word up: Find out in which episode the players appeared Gotcha: terminology Like This: Let the pros teach you Inside Scoop: Player bios Trivia: Trivia questions Games: Games, games and more games! 5 Questions: The players are asked 5 questions you want answered. Show Information: Information about the tv hosts Disc Sports.com DiscSports.com; where disc sports is live on the Internet.

National Alliance for Youth Sports Olympic champion Marion Jones heads a national initiative. The National Alliance For Youth Sports has launched Time Out! For better sports for kids, a national initiative is aimed at eliminating violence and other negative behaviors plaguing youth sports programs nation wide. The goal of the National Alliance for Youth Sports is to make sports safe and positive for America's youth.

Dance & Rhythms

How to Juggle This is a juggling animation site, teaching the skills and techniques of juggling. Line Dance Archives Check out the Line Dance Archives. As of June 13, 2001, there are 3,720 line dances in these archives.

Elementary Resources

KidsHealth.org This site is devoted to the health of children and teens. Created by the medical experts at The Nemours Foundation, KidsHealth has accurate, up-to-date information about growth, food & fitness, childhood infections, immunizations, lab tests, medical and surgical conditions, and the latest treatments. You'll find health games, How The Body Works animations, the KidsVote health poll, and more! Prevention Yellow Pages This is a worldwide directory of over 1,000 programs, research, references and resources dedicated to the prevention of youth problems and the promotion of nurturing children. Be Tobacco Free This web site is hosted by the "World's Fastest Clown," who does school assemblies geared for second through fourth grade students to teach and motivate children not to smoke.

Germs

Sanitary and Unsanitary Food Habits Lesson plan to help the student understand the differences between sanitary and unsanitary food habits. Spreading Germs Activity uses shaking hands and cooked rice to demonstrate how germs spread quickly from person to person.

Contribute YOUR Ideas

If you have ideas, comments, letters to share, or questions about particular topics, please email one of the following Elementary PE Section Editors:

	Gerry Cernicky
	Paula Summit
	Tom Winiecki
	Marina Bonello