All Active - 35 Inclusive Physical Activities
ISBN: 0736072144
ISBN13: 9780736072144
Edition Description: 81 pages, paperback
Author: Kiwi Bielenberg

Reviewer: Andy McCorquodale

In reading All Active: 35 Inclusive Physical Activities, I found a resource that has the capacity to be helpful to even the most experienced of physical educators. This text is focused towards elementary and adapted physical education teachers. The information found within this book has the purpose of providing activities that will enhance students’ motor skills, and each activity has suggestions and tips for adjusting the activity for less developed students as well as for more gifted students. This book is 81 pages long, and is a very easy read that takes little time to extract what you need on a daily basis. The activities contained within this text are easy to find, and finding a specific activity takes as much time as looking at the activity finder at the front of the book and flipping the pages. With the purpose of this text being to provide some great, easy to teach activities that can be used with students of all ability levels, this text does a great job of achieving the intended purpose.

There are several items regarding this text that I found to be substantially helpful for a physical educator. One such item is that each of these activities was included with the realization that many physical education programs have a limited budget. Most of these activities require minimal costs beyond that which most physical education programs already possess. Another key item I have found within this book is that the author does a wonderful job of addressing the important aspect of student motivation. The author has several concepts that she has found to be extremely helpful in motivating students to move, such as having students search for hidden items. A third helpful item I have found is the organized manner of the activity finder near the front of the text. The vital information, such as setup time, activity level, and skills that are addressed, are well represented in an easy to follow table.

Overall, this text does a great job of achieving its goal, and as long as this text is used to supplement your physical education program, and not make up the bulk of the program, I believe it will add greatly to your class. This book can be highly recommended for anyone wishing to further the goal of ushering in the concepts of the new physical education to each and every physical education program.

I give this book a 5 star rating.