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This book is aimed at educating and preparing adolescents of the ages 12 to 16 in the basics of Olympic Weightlifting and Strength Training. The book familiarizes teachers, parents, and kids with the fundamentals of lifting and resistance training. The book starts by explaining how muscles work by burning energy and moving the nutrients around the body organs. Young children need to be educated on the process of transport of energy from food to cells allover the body. They then will understand how strength training helps the body grow and stay healthy and fit. Strong muscles and bones help...

This book is aimed at educating and preparing children of the ages 6 to 12 in the basics of Olympic Weightlifting and Strength Training. The book familiarizes teachers, parents, and kids with the fundamentals of lifting and resistance training. The book starts by explaining how muscles work by burning energy and moving the nutrients around the body organs. Young children need to be educated on the process of transport of energy from food to cells allover the body. They then will understand how strength-training helps the body grow and stay healthy and fit. Resistance exercise is defined as...

A fundamental component of the Olympic ideal is the concept of Olympic education. This is the notion that sport can help children and young people develop essential life skills. Olympic Education: An international review is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the diffusion and implementation of Olympic education programmes around the world.

The book includes 28 chapters with 21 national case studies of countries on every major continent, including Australia, Brasil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Spain, the UK, the US and Zambia. Each chapter...

Relentless Wisdom examines the world of sports through an objective eye and encourages the reader to critically think about its evolution. Coaches, parents and athletes alike are challenged to "step up" their level of responsibility with regard to sport and the powerful impact it has on society as a whole.

This Fitness for Life: Elementary School classroom guide contains everything you need to deliver standards-based wellness lesson plans to kindergarten students. The guide and its DVD-ROM include the following:

- Daily lesson plans for class discussions and activity breaks, which take only a few minutes, fit easily into your schedule, and integrate with other subject matter areas (such as math, social studies, music, and art)

- Over two hours of fun plug-and-play video routines (featuring embedded wellness messages) for activity breaks, plus instructional...

Can we imagine a future in which physical education in schools no longer exists?

In this controversial and powerful meditation on physical education, David Kirk argues that a number of different futures are possible. Kirk argues that multi-activity, sport-based forms of physical education have been dominant in schools since the mid-twentieth century and that they have been highly resistant to change. The practice of physical education has focused on the transmission of de-contextualised sport-techniques to large classes of children who possess a range of interests and...

As academic thinking about and around physical education continues to flourish and develop, this new title in the Routledge series, Major Themes in Education, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the subject's vast literature and the continuing explosion in research output. Edited by David Kirk of the Institute for Sport and Physical Activity Research at the University of Bedfordshire, this Routledge Major Work set is a four-volume collection of foundational and cutting-edge contributions that cover all of the major themes in physical education. With a...

The Acting Out Yoga Series was born out of a need to find creative ways to engage young yoga students in class. Each book provides lesson plans for teachers to guide children through a "fantastical" fairy tale story while facilitating their ability to quickly learn asanas (poses). Thanks to the talents of artist Jessica Lynn Clark, these watercolor illustrations also provide the perfect backdrop in art galleries, where students can - literally - walk through the exhibit and act out the images found within each painting. The stories are designed to teach kids about art and culture in different...

With game consoles and the Internet, children are playing as much as they always have--but now, they sit still while doing it. Kids spend as much time watching TV, using computers, and playing video games as they spend in school each week. One in every three kids in America is considered overweight or obese, and the number one concern that parents bring up to pediatricians is keeping kids fit. Half of all children are not physically active enough for the development of a healthy cardiovascular system.
303 Kid-Approved Exercises and Active Games helps 6-8 year old kids get off...

"Low back pain, with or without associated sciatica is one of the most common medical problems. In my days as an orthopedic resident medical officer in the 1970s, I was rather disappointed with the treatment of this condition. I have treated about 15,000 patients of low back pain with conservative management as outlined in this book with gratifying results. The booklet in English has proven to be of value in impart-ing education on the subject. Subsequently it was brought out in Hindi and Marathi to reach out to more people in India where it has received much media coverage."-Dr. Vinod A....

Cooperative Learning is a dynamic instructional model that can teach diverse content to students at different grade levels, with students working together in small, structured, heterogeneous groups to master subject content. It has a strong research tradition, is used frequently as a professional development tool in general education and is now emerging in physical education.

This book defines Cooperative Learning in physical education and examines how to implement Cooperative Learning in a variety of educational settings. It explores Cooperative Learning in physical education from...

Producing evidence that professional development undertaken has an impact on childrens learning is an increasingly important issue in education. This book proposes a process model designed to support and enable education professionals to focus on this issue as an integral part of their daily work. This model centres around the identification of professional learning needs in relation to the learning needs of children and focuses on evidence of impact as part of that process. For this model to work effectively, however, there must be a culture which supports, enables and recognises the value...

Producing evidence that professional development undertaken has an impact on childrens learning is an increasingly important issue in education. This book proposes a process model designed to support and enable education professionals to focus on this issue as an integral part of their daily work. This model centres around the identification of professional learning needs in relation to the learning needs of children and focuses on evidence of impact as part of that process. For this model to work effectively, however, there must be a culture which supports, enables and recognises the value...

Physical Education can take place in the gym, the playground or the classroom. This book picks up where Sensorcises (2004) left off. Learn how to use PE time to enrich sensory connections used for reading, writing, thinking and learning. Just like for first book, Sensorcises Part II is organized to be used right away The book lends itself to school wide circuit training events, and contains warm-ups that are specifically designed to stimulate the sensory processing systems.

This is the "first" in a series of 5 activity books covering preschool and the primary grades. Use these classroom-tested movement education activities to assess your students motor strengths and weaknesses in preschool and early elementary grades or special education classes. The sequence of easily given tests and tasks requires minimal instruction time and your kids will find the activities to be interesting, challenging and fun Part 1 in this first book in the series includes a Perceptual-Motor Evaluation Scale that evaluates students on the Identification of Body Parts, Walking Board...

For playground supervisors, PE teachers, classroom teachers, youth recreational professionals, and parents--here is a super collection of 251 playground games for elementary-age children. Written by an experienced physical educator, this user-friendly resource contains field-tested play activities that will eliminate student boredom during recess and create a safe, healthy, and peaceful playground setting. Inside, you'll find traditional recess favorites as well as exciting new activities that focus on maximizing student participation, cooperation, and fitness development. Each game is...

This one-of-a-kind resource was specially written for the elementary and middle school physical educator--with the purpose of providing gym scooter activities that pomote the development of movement skills and fitness in a fun setting.And, nowhere else will you find such a wide variety of gym scooter games. Inside, you'll discover large and small group games, as well as exciting new activities that focus on maximizing participation, cooperation, and fitness development. The quick, easy-to-use format makes it very reader friendly--the ideal resource for busy teachers. Each page provides...

Pedagogical Cases in Physical Education and Youth Sport is a completely new kind of resource for students and practitioners working in physical education or youth sport. The book consists of 20 richly described cases of individual young learners, each written by a team of authors with diverse expertise from across the sport, exercise and movement sciences. These cases bring together knowledge from single sub-disciplines into new interdisciplinary knowledge to inform best practice in physical education, teaching and coaching in youth sport settings. At the heart of each case is an individual...

Written by a nationally known physical education teacher and author, this one-of-a-kind book contains PE games that allow children to develop team and lifetime sport skills in an exciting and meaningful setting--leaving them motivated, challenged, and enthusiastic about sport participation. In all, this user-friendly resource contains field-tested activities proven to enhance sport skills in fourteen sport categories--the most comprehensive sport lead-up game book available to physical educators. Each of the 242 games provides everything needed for its successful use. This includes an...

This handbook introduces technology skills used by effective Physical Educators in the gymnasium and health classroom, and it can easily be adapted to the needs of other educators. Designed to be used sequentially or as stand-alone lessons, the handbook's units present experiential assignments aimed at increasing user competency with such commonly available technology as Microsoft Office software, Web 2.0 innovations, and more. Exploratory assignments help learners create a variety of materials including brochures, websites, interactive educational games, electronic portfolios, and gradebook...