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Hastie, Peter; Boyd, Korey; Ward, Jeffery Kurt; Stringfellow, Andy – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2020
The purpose of this article is to provide information on how to teach a Sport Education fitness season with the intent to improve students' physical activity, fitness development, and health-related fitness knowledge as to work towards achieving SHAPE America's goal of 50 Million strong. Readers are provided with a daily lesson schedule, detailed…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Athletics, Physical Education, Physical Activity Level
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Santos, Luis; Fernandez-Rio, Javier – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2013
Children who become competent in a wide variety of motor skills and movement patterns are more likely to remain physically active for life. Physical education can achieve this goal by providing an extensive selection of activities and by including learning units that encourage students to increase their skill level and stay active year-round.…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Life Style, Child Health
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Brown, Gregory A.; Lynott, Frank; Heelan, Kate A. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2008
When students analyze and present original data they have collected, and hence have a cultivated sense of curiosity about the data, student learning is enhanced. It is often difficult to provide students an opportunity to practice their skills, use their knowledge, and gain research experiences during a typical course laboratory. This article…
Descriptors: Muscular Strength, Obesity, Body Composition, Physical Activities
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Erwin, Heather E.; Woods, Amelia Mays; Woods, Martha K.; Castelli, Darla M. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine levels of physical activity engagement, motor competence, and physical fitness as related to child access to physical activity facilities in the home and school environments. The present investigation attempts to further efforts to examine the relationship between physical activity levels and access.…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Summer Programs, Physical Fitness, Physical Activities
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Gilbert, Jennie A. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2004
Children's natural play patterns provide opportunity for fitness development. Children typically do not care about the benefits of physical activity or the physiology behind the activities they perform, but they are very interested in participating in fun activities. Often curricula focus on how to feed children values that are important to…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Exercise Physiology, Physical Activities, Physical Fitness
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Li, Xiao Jun; Dunham, Paul, Jr. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 1993
Investigates the effect of secondary school physical education on fitness load: the product of the mean heart rate above threshold (144 bpm) and the time duration of heart rate above that threshold. Highly and moderately skilled students achieved fitness load more frequently than their lower skilled colleagues. (GLR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Exercise Physiology, Heart Rate, Physical Activity Level
Kirkpatrick, Beth; Birnbaum, Burton H. – 1997
Learning about the relationship between heart rate and physical activity is an important aspect of fitness education. Use of a heart rate monitor (HRM) helps a student to understand how stretching and large muscle movements gradually increase the heart rate and blood flow, and enables students to measure their exercise heart rates and set goals…
Descriptors: Athletics, Elementary Secondary Education, Exercise, Games
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Milne, Conrad – Strategies, 1994
A school-based walking program is an inexpensive and amusing way to get young students physically active. The article presents a program that can be adapted for students of any age and implemented as a physical education class unit, after school activity, or recess program. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Exercise
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Douthitt, Vicki L.; Harvey, Mark L. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1995
To teach students to maintain active lifestyles, physical educators must know what motivates students to exercise. The article discusses factors contributing to youth inactivity, what physical educators can do about the problem, and what research says about exercise motivation and adherence. Six recommendations for physical educators are included.…
Descriptors: Child Health, Counseling, Exercise, Health Promotion
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Pangrazi, Robert P.; Corbin, Charles B. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1993
Answers teachers' questions about physical fitness, emphasizing children's physical fitness, why people believe children are unfit, children's activity levels, heredity and maturation in fitness testing, test results, adequate fitness, activity, and participation, how long it takes children to get fit, reward systems, current fitness testing, and…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Child Development, Child Health, Elementary Secondary Education