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Celebrate National P.E. and Sports Month

from EducationWorld.com

May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, but kids need physical education all year! Education World offers a full roster of stories, lessons, resources, and activities focused on PE! So take a look at the ideas here for including sports and physical education in the curriculum and helping your students be physically fit!

ACTIVITIES & LESSON PLANS

Fitness Fun Times Five
Celebrate Physical Fitness Month with five new lessons that combine fitness fun with other subjects.

Let's Get Physical
Celebrate National Physical Fitness and Sports Month with Education World's tour of physical fitness Web sites. Get your students moving with hundreds of active-ities -- with the emphasis on active!

Sports Math Scores Points With Students AND Teachers!
Looking for math activities to connect with this week's big game? Teachers can grab students' interest with a site that teams math with sports -- and everyone comes out a winner!

Teacher-Submitted Lessons: Physical Education
Teachers submitted these PE lessons to Education World -- lessons for games, movement, and team sports.

Computers and Phys Ed Do Mix!
Students and teachers in Hood River, Oregon, use a spreadsheet program to track progress in physical fitness. Included: Teachers share their reactions and the reactions of students and parents.

The Web Puts 'Fizz' Into Phys-ical Fitness!
May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, the perfect time to reinforce the value of exercise and physical activity for better health. The Web can help you with games, ideas, and lessons that will make your students jump for joy!

Great Sites for Teaching Physical Fitness
Here are Web sites that are among the best for teaching about physical fitness.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Girls and Sports -- A Winning Combination!
Husband-and-wife team Gil Reavill and Jean Zimmerman, authors of Raising Our Athletic Daughters: How Sports Can Build Self-Esteem and Save Girls’ Lives, respond to questions about how educators can encourage girls to embrace sports.

Emphasizing Sportsmanship in Youth Sports
Coaches, Teachers, and parents serve as role models for sportsmanlike behaviors in children. This story from the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports examines the latest research on the topic of developing sportsmanship.

"Be Fit for Life," Says P.E. Teacher of the Year
Named best high school physical education teacher for 2000 by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, Dale Kephart -- a former Olympic gymnast -- uses fun and music to help kids get fit for life.