This is a teacher's resource
guide to Physical Education. It lists 38
games
that are categorized by age groups. These
games focus on achieving growth and
development of children while allowing all
students to participate.
I thought this site was
important for teachers. It has an extensive
list of
common and not so common physical and mental
disabilities. This site would
help educators recognize students with special
needs. It also has listings of
many links to other websites that offer
much more detailed information about
disorders and disease.
This site has hundreds of
games. The site can be searched by grade
or by
related sports. It also describes the goals
of the games. I think there are
a lot of good ideas that can be adapted
to fit the special needs of all
students.
HHS supports a number of
programs to promote better health for Americans
of all ages through physical activity. These
programs were created to engage the public
and community organizations in taking steps
to promote and encourage increased physical
activity.
This Web Site provides information
that explains benefits of being active,
what are the health risks of being inactive,
what we do in health promotion with regards
to physical activity?
Regular physical activity
provides young people with important physical,
mental and social health benefits. Regular
practice of physical activity helps children
and young people to build and maintain healthy
bones, muscles and joints, helps control
body weight, helps reduce fat and develop
efficient function of the heart and lungs.
It contributes to the development of movement
and co-ordination and helps prevent and
control feelings of anxiety and depression.
Physical inactivity is the
most common risk factor for heart disease,
7 out of 10 adults in the UK do not take
enough regular physical activity. The greatest
increase in health benefit comes to inactive
people who start to take regular moderate
exercise.
One way to measure just
how effective various types of activity
are is to look at how many calories they
burn. The following calculator will give
you a rough idea of how many calories you
are using. It is based on your weight (the
heavier you are, the more calories you burn
for any specific activity) and the amount
of time you do an activity.
The web site gives a quote " promoting
active and healthy lifestyles." The
web site is about adapting to p.e, elementary
p.e., health secondary p.e. and many others.
This web site gives a lot
of great sources it has about 500 quality
assured material all related to health and
p.e. and many more. The web site also gives
reference to pe curriculum and assessment.
This web site shows you
lesson plans, tools and themes for physical
education and health. The web site also
gives resources for physical education,
and health standards.
There is a part in this web site about
health and physical education and the
goal of it was to strengthen local schools
and plan, design, and evaluate health
and physical education in grades K-12.