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Students Develop Lifelong Skills in New PE

Skateboarding, yoga, Pilates, videogames... this is phys ed? Whatever happened to dodgeball, uniforms, group showers, and being picked last for the team—all the aspects of physical education that most adults today remember with dismay?
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Fitness Zone

Fitness Zone activities provide a good way to integrate fitness into your classroom. You can use them to give students a quick break between subjects, so they settle down to focus on new material more easily.

Push-Up—Reaction Time

Prepare a list of questions that you want students to answer as a review. Organize students into pairs and have each pair select a small object, such as an eraser, to use in the activity. Have each student face his partner in the push-up position, and place the object in between them. Explain that the goal of the activity is for one person to grab the object and not have his hand tagged by the other person. Only the person who knows the answer to the question you pose can reach for the object. Play the game three or four times, then allow students to switch partners and try again.

You can find more energy boosters like these in FitnessZone.

Incorporating Fitness into the Classroom

Maybe you don’t teach in a school that has a student fitness center in the gym. Maybe your school doesn’t even have a PE teacher, since many school districts have cut physical education requirements. But you still want to find ways to help your students become more physically active, not only because you’re concerned about their health, but also because you know that physically active children are better learners.
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Teacher Tips—What Works!

Teacher tips are tried and true teaching strategies developed by health education teachers around the country. Take a look at some classroom activities that really work.
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