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Thank-you for visiting the "Interdisciplinary PE" section on PELINKS4U. I hope you find this section a valuable use of your time.
If you have teaching tips for successfully integrating PE with other classroom subjects at any grade level, please share them with me.
Also, I would be happy to try to find answers to any questions you may have. Feedback, questions, and contributions will assist me in making this page beneficial to you.
Cindy Kuhrasch
Section Editor
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Virtual Human Body
The Visible Human Project has generated over 18000 digitized sections of the body.
The animations and images in this tour use a few of these images to demonstrate
planes of section and other introductory concepts in anatomy.
Internet Integration Activities
This site offers a number of integrated activities for a wide variety of grade levels. Follow the link to the high school activities for some excellent tie-ins to PE!
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Nutrition Cafe
Use the clues to find the missing nutrient. Three strikes and you're out.
Foods Memory Game
Match the different types of food.
PearBear Healthy Kids
Read about the adventures of PearBear, download cute pictures to color, and enjoy "Healthy Kids" recipes. Discover everything you wanted to know about pears (and more) including purchasing and storage tips, delicious recipes, health facts, and advice on growing them.
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Civil War
Have players select partners and give each player 3-5 bowling pins or cones. Have players sit about 10 feet apart from each other, and set the pins up in front of them in any way they like. The pins represent forts or strongholds that they have in the Civil War. In each pair, one player represents the Confederates and the other player represents the Rebels. Give each set of players a ball, and let them take turns rolling the ball at the pins of the other player. The first player to knock down all of their opponent's pins wins. Reset the pins and try again.
Discuss important strongholds for each of the sides of the war, and have each player name and set up pins for the most important strongholds of the conflict. Give certain strongholds more importance - for instance Gettysburg - and have players who knock down one or more of those pins win the conflict.
Two sets of player work together by having one partner on the side of the game area try to knock balls off course by rolling their own balls at it.
Developed by:
Cindy Kuhrasch
Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706
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"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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| Hot Ideas from PE Central |
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Rhythmic Multiples
Purpose of Activity:
To help students learn multiples of the numbers 1-9. To help students practice different manipulative skills.
Physical Activity Being Taught:
Manipulative skills
- Suggested Grade Level:2-3
Where in the World?
Purpose of Activity:
The purpose of this activity is to use different balancing skills with the students as they review/learn important facts about each of the continents.
Physical Activity Being Taught:
Balance
Pancake Express
Purpose of Activity:
To improve a variety of manipulative skills, and expose the children to a cross-curricular activity (dramatic play, reading, problem solving) to improve creativity and health education.
Physical Activity Being Taught:
Various manipulative skills.
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Ideas For Integrating Language Into Your Program
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Our district emphasis is to READ across the curriculum, thus the 700 Club. The #700 section of the school's library is sports. Read and review 7 items and earn 7 days of checked out PE equipment for recess. |
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Beginning readers, and particularly ESL children, use pictures for context
to interpret words. I teach safety unit to the K-1 class by putting the local and international safety signs up and post on cones. A huge winding path is followed on scooter boards after reviewing the signs and their meanings.
Two children are chosen as police officers to help teach. They stop someone at a sign and ask the child to name the sign signal and what it means or what it would have you do. Examples: Caution, bathroom, telephone, crosswalk, fire, stay out, hospital, red cross, danger, construction, stop, go, school crossing, and poison.
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Sport Jobs: Career to Work- Job applications must be filled out and 2 references attached for applications reference, and use the microphone to call the games in grades 5 and 6. Applications must include the following: Name, classroom address, qualifications, experience for the job, and why you would do well for the job.
The references must be from 1 adult and 1 student. We have the local sports writer come do a presentation on this career path. They are invited to observe a high school sporting event and write up an article. The high school coach also will interview with the student. The best submitted piece is published in our local newspaper. |
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Reading aloud is one of the main reading strategies. I use brief poems, news articles on health and PE in various genres, and books for cool down prior to walking back to class. |
| 5. | We have a story board chart in the room. Vocabulary words and fitness terms are placed there in an on-going fashion. |
Pamela Rasmuseen, PE Specialist
Mirror Lake El. School
Federal Way, Wa.
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| Interdisciplinary PE Resources |
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Kids Food Cyberclub
Suitable for children in grades 3-5. The goal is to improve nutrition by engaging students in an interactive, learner-centered program. Includes: fun stuff for kids, teacher's guide, and great links to other nutrition sites.
Lesson Planning Article - Let's Get Physical!
Celebrate National Physical Fitness and Sports Month with Education World's tour of physical fitness Web sites. Get your students moving with hundreds of "active-ities" - with the emphasis on active! Included: An activity idea from each site!
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