Just click on any of the sections below and you'll be taken directly to it!
- Sports Media
- Primary Resources: P.E.
- NY City Schools Adapted PE Resources
- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
- The Classroom PE Department
- Basketball Coaching Resources
- Football Coaching Resources
- Soccer Coaching Resources
- Baseball Coaching Resources
- Softball Coaching Resources
- Sports Officials Reosurces
- Special Olympics Coaching Guides
Strategies for Sparking Up Your P.E. Class
"It's Still Just a Game"
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Each of the 25 "Make It -Take It" Fitness Games starts with a teacher-friendly and visual overview and richly illustrated exercises. $30.00 (K-8)
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K-12 Curriculum Incentives for the NEW Physical Education is the product of 60+ years of teaching and supervising K-12 physical education programs. Written by Bud and Sue Turner, this is the latest book of this husband and wife writing team. The ideas in this new text offer a library of planned, purposeful, and exciting activities aimed at motivating all students.
$37.00 (K-12)
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A Complete Package: Project ACES is probably the most successful physical education promotional event to date. Hailed by the President's Council for Physical Fitness & Sports as the "world's largest exercise class," this event has generated interest from newspapers and television shows around the USA.
Blueprints for Success: Len Saunders, creator of Project ACES, shares the secrets of 15 successful physical education programs with you. This book contains step-by-step descriptions for innovative projects such as the Tri-Fit-A-Thon, The Great Country Fitness Challenge, The Best-Ever Fitness Fair, The Virtual Fitness Jamboree, Fitness Pen Pals, and much more! $25.00 (K-5)
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Looking for New Ideas? By using the theme-based PE Activity Stations found in this book, you will be able to implement a year-long selection of enjoyable fitness, sport skills, and team-building opportunities for your students!
This book provides over 200 physical eudcation station ideas with 12 fun-filled chapters. A great selection of flexible, adaptable, time-saving, and theme-based activities guaranteed to add more fun to your program! $30.00 (K-8)
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Greetings!
Welcome to Issue #5! With holiday vacations just around the corner, this issue will be a bit different from the others. We have decided to create an annual "PE and Coaching Web-Index" as a focus of each December issue of the Carol M. White PEP Grant Newsletter.
PE and Coaching Web-Index! In this issue, you will find a wide assortment of physical education and coaching web resources, such as:
- Adapted PE Resources
- PE for Primary Students
- Basketball Coaching Resources
- Baseball/Softball Coaching Resources
- Football Coaching Resources
- Special Olympics Coaching Resources
- And much, much more!
Are You a First Timer? Is this the first time you have received the Carol M. White PEP Grant Newsletter? If so, please visit the Archives Section found at the bottom of this page for our previous four issues.
Our Mission: There are four general purposes for this growing, monthly publication:
 To provide an active forum for sharing valuable and timely information to new and continuing Carol M. White PEP Grant-funded Project Directors, Central Office Staff and teachers.
- To help disseminate the "lessons learned" by PEP Grant winners to all interested Physical Education Supervisors and teachers.
- To encourage more schools and school districts to implement a comprehensive physical education program model as described in the Comprehensive Physical Education Profile (C-PEP) model.
- To recognize innovative schools and districts who are doing great things with and without PEP Grant funding.
Sincerely,
Artie Kamiya, Publisher
PS: If you are a Central Office administrator and would like to have all of your PE teachers added to the newsletter, just e-mail me an Excel spreadsheet with each teacher's first name, last name, and e-mail address.
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Background: Here are 12 great Physical Education and Coaching Websites to visit while enjoying your Christmas/Winter vacation!
1. Sports Media
The primary mission of Sports Media is to "unite and inspire" individuals who are interested in sport and physical education. As such, this website provides a quality platform where athletes, coaches, teachers, students and instructors are able to exchange their bright ideas about physical education and sport.
- Database of Lessons Plans (600+) - This newly restructured website provides over 600 FREE lesson plans - and growing! Also, teachers have the ability to submit their own lesson plans to the database,
if they'd like to share them with others.
- Ask!Us - A friendly teacher forum including seven categories including "Technology in Physical Education," "Talk to the Experts," and "Coaching & Sports."
- Discussion Columns - This is a unique feature where physical education and sport articles (i.e., "Does Physical Activity Influence Academic Performance," "Discipline Strategies") are posted and teachers are able to provide their insights on the topic.
This website contains an assortment of physical education resources - warm-ups, dance and gymnastics, fitness, and game ideas - for primary and elementary teachers.
3. NY City Schools Adapted PE Resources
This website was designed by the New York City Department of Education's Office of Fitness and Health Education. As such, it contains information of interest to Adapted Physical Education teachers and/or for those working with special needs students.
4. Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. You will find the following on this PE resources website:
- Looking Good, Feeling Good: From the Inside Out -
Through seven lessons, students learn key lifestyle recommendations for maintaining good health.
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Nutrition and Physical Activity - Learn about body mass, bone health,
cancer, dietary guidelines, fruits and vegetables and weight
management, healthy eating tips, heart disease, intensity levels of
various activities, obesity, physical activity statistics and
recommendations, stairwells, tips for parents, and weight management
ideas.
Healthy Youth -
This website offers recommendations to help states, districts, and schools implement health programs and policies that promote healthy behaviors among youth. Physical Activity and Health, Adolescents and Young Adults - This website offers tips for promoting healthy habits and includes information on building individual and community physical education initiatives.
Game On! - This website is an effort to promote nutrition, physical activity, and learning. It includes a database of changes schools can make to improve nutrition and physical activity. Topics in the "Resources to Improve Schools" database include advertising, after school programs, a la carte foods, assessment tools, childhood obesity, family outreach, nutrition education, physical activity, physical education, school meal programs, and staff wellness.
5. The Classroom PE Department
This website contains a fantastic collection of sports trivia, rules, website links, and non-stop information. Note: You may find yourself late for your next class if you log-on and don't keep track of time!
6. Basketball Coaching Resources
This website (and the following five) was specifically designed for individuals looking for drills, teaching hints, and other resources. A service of the Kids Sports Network.
7. Football Coaching Resources
8. Soccer Coaching Resources
9. Baseball Coaching Resources
10. Softball Coaching Resources
11. Sports Officials Resources
12. Special Olympics Coaching Guides
Whether you are an experienced Special Olympics coach, or just starting out, this is the place to come for background, guidance, tips and strategies. The pages are designed, so that you can print them if you want to take them with you to practice and to make copies for your athletes to take home with them. Athletes frequently like to try things at home, between practices. And their families also like to see what they are working on so they can help too.
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you ever written and/or received a community or foundation grant? Do
you have any grant success stories you'd like to share with others? If
so, please click here to send an e-mail to us with your name and contact information. Type "PE Web Resources" in the subject line.
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January 2009Event:Nevada AHPERD Conference
Details: Numerous breakout sessions will be offered addressing a variety of topics. Conference will include a keynote and various breakout sessions on Friday. On Saturday NASPE Toy's will present in-depth sessions.
Date:1/23/2009 - 1/24/2009
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Contact:Hayden Ross by e-mail or at 702-743-9907
February 2009
Event: Eastern District Association 88th Annual Convention
Dates:2/4/2009 - 2/7/2009
Location:Lancaster Host Resort Hotel, Lancaster, PA
Contact: Debra Ballinger by e-mail or at 410-704-2748
Event: New Jersey AHPERD Annual Convention
Details:Our convention theme is "Educating, Motivating, Celebrating 90 Years!"
Join us at the Jersey Shore for 3 days of professional development,
networking and FUN! We have special events planned to celebrate the
30th Anniversary of Jump Rope for Heart, including Rene Bibaud as our
keynote!
Date: 2/22/2009 - 2/24/2009
Location: Ocean Place Resort & Spa Long Branch
Contact: Jackie Malaska
by e-mail or at 732-918-9999
Event: Central District Association Annual Convention
Dates: 3/12/2009 - 3/14/2009
Location: Rochester, Minnesota
Details: Convention sessions will be held in the Rochester Mayo Civic Center, Jean Blaydes Madigan will be the general session presenter as well over 70 sessions
Contact: Rich Burke
 Would you like to share details about your conference or upcoming state or national event to other national to other national PEP Grant teachers? If so, please click here to send an e-mail to us with your name and event information. If possible, please use the above format to send us your information. Type "State and National Events" in the subject line.
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Strategies to "SPARK-Up" Your Physical Education Class
Jeff Mushkin and Paul Rosengard
 An objective of SPARK PE is to increase the amount of time students are in moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA). MVPA can be described as activity at the level of a brisk walk (moderate) or greater (vigorous). A realistic goal of 50% or more of time in MVPA can be achieved using the following strategies:
Look for Movement
If you don't see enough, change the activity. (E.g., do a different drill or a timed challenge; reduce group size; add more balls or more chasers; widen boundaries; etc.)
Non-Elimination
Do not use drills or games that eliminate children and make them non-participants. SPARK activities use "re-entry areas" (e.g., a student who is tagged travels to the re-entry area, completes a task, and then re-enters the game).
Be Line Conscious!
Never have students wait their turn for equipment without giving them something else to do. Ideally, equipment ratios would be appropriate, but in cases where there isn't enough, read Limited Equipment/Large Class strategies located near the back of each section.
Individual/Partner/Group
To decrease transition time, keep similar-sized groupings throughout the lesson, or combine ready-made groups/pairs rather than creating new ones. All SPARK Activities note the grouping needed with an icon of an individual, partner, or group on the top, right-hand corner.
Want to Learn More? SPARK workshops provide detailed instruction on these concepts and many others. Inquire about hosting a SPARK workshop on a district professional growth day (SPARK comes to you) or attending an Institute in San Diego next summer (you come to SPARK). See our website: www.sparkpe.org Or call: 800-SPARKPE
Comments regarding this article are welcome:
Jeff Mushkin: jmushkin@sparkpe.org
Paul Rosengard: prosengard@sparkpe.org
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 It's Still Just a Game
Author Unknown
The sun melts the mist of a crisp autumn morn.
Young children gather in a lot where the grass is badly worn.
There are no goals, no scoreboards, there are no
marching bands.
No speaker system blaring out each successful first and ten.
No coach directing the official to measure that gain again.
But here in the worn sandlot, the children they play,
With a zest, a spirit, a joy, shown in their own way.
They run, they throw, they catch, but it's all in fun.
And after the game no one races around screaming
that they won.
I watched them for a brief moment, and wondered,
isn't it a shame.
That we have lost sight of the fact,
It's still just a game!
 This
inspirational story is an example of the many other stories, teacher tips, games,
and activities contained in the PEP Club Archives, the largest single
collection of games, activities, and physical education teaching tips
in the universe! Access to the PEP Club is $59.95 a year. Please call (800) 927-0682 for discounted rates for multi-school subscriptions.
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