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Born from two research studies in TX and PA, the original SPARK High School PE (HS PE) program was shown to increase student participation, activity levels, and their subsequent enjoyment of PE class, while helping their teachers implement a standards-based approach to instruction.

To instruct especially so as to encourage physical, intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement through Physical Education. Physical Education (PE) can teach lots more than just how to throw a ball. As you probably already know, there is a lot of social interaction in the typical PE class, and that offers a perfect opportunity for kids to grow in their ability to develop positive social skills. In addition, PE challenges kids to think differently; to make connections between what they have learned in the classroom and how it is applied in a real-life setting.

The ultimate in physical education OER database. The go to place for any PE related resource and news.

The aim of the K-12 PE program is to enable individuals to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to lead an active, healthy lifestyle. This website serves as a database for teacher resources.

In addition to the Fitness library that provides visitors with a variety of short articles about health and physical activity, tips for purchasing fitness equipment, etc., this site provides an enormous amount of links to Health and physical activity links that may prove beneficial to a PE teacher.

Youtube offers multifaceted video for use in exercise analysis, sport analysis and overall video demonstration in the PE setting.

We are here to help those who would like to use active games as a developmental tool in the classroom, at home, and/or in large spaces. Games are a wonderful way to teach valuable life skills while children have fun. This requires carefully selected games that include everyone with lots of turns, each at their personal level, and make the difference among players a bonus for all rather than a liability

LOG IT is a FREE pedometer step and mile recording program for kids 3rd grade and up. Students can virtually walk around the USA with their classmates, log up to 6 days back, enter up to 25,000 (12.5 miles) steps a day and enjoy additional site features

Welcome to the premier site for health & physical education teachers, parents and students. Our goal is to provide the latest information about developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children. To motivate, we offer fun kids fitness programs such as Log It and the PEC Challenge. We have over 1800 published lesson ideas

The vision of exergaming that was presented by Dr. Steve Sanders and Lisa Witherspoon in 2008.

Video of how the Ipad can help in teaching Physical Education.

A message board for physical education teachers to share ideas, activities, lessons.

Looking for kids games? How about rules for playground games, verses for jump-rope rhymes, and much more??? You have come to right place!

The best game ideas, resources and activities for birthday parties, picnics, youth groups, summer camps, company events, educators, family life, home schooling or just for the fun of it

Welcome to the premier site for health & physical education teachers, parents and students. Our goal is to provide the latest information about developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children.

The concept behind the Exercise US program is to motivate children to become physically fit and healthy by making fitness fun. Children will enjoy the concept of participating in 10 continuous hours of fitness from coast to coast. Schools or organizations that sign up will partake in 15 minutes of exercise at their location. When their 15 minute time allotment is over, they have completed their portion of the program. At that moment, in a new location, the next exercise session will begin, which could potentially be in a different state. The program will begin at 8:00 a.m. eastern time, and finish at 3:00 p.m. pacific time

Coaching ideas, templates, strategies and advice on a multitude of exercise and sport related topics.

This website is dedicated to the free haring of information. If you are using content from this website, please email me information which can be posted online for the benefit of everyone involved in physical education.

The National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity's mission is to unite the strengths of public, private, and industry efforts into collaborative partnerships that inspire and empower all Americans to lead more physically active lifestyles.

My goal is to provide one of the most comprehensive Elementary Physical Education and Secondary Physical Education resources available on the internet. On this site you will find a wide variety of elementary physical education games, including cooperative games and activities, sports games, lead up activities, and much more. Furthermore, you will find ideas on elementary physical education assessment, field day ideas, cheap or free physical education equipment, created and compiled by an elementary physical education teacher with over two decades of experience