Paula Summit, this issue's Elementary Section Editor, provides a variety of information that can contribute to your efforts in creating a new approach to Physical Education.

	How to start a unicycle club at your school.
	Link to a site for educators and parents to develop life skills in children.
	A program from the National Alliance for Youth Sports to eliminate negative behaviors in sports.
	Can you juggle? Here's a site that will enhance your juggling skills.
	Teach your kids to be sanitary. Here's how.
	Click here to read these and much more.

Book Reviews Play Practice - The Games Approach to Teaching Sports

Secondary PE

Steve Jefferies, Guest Secondary Section Editor, ponders the future of secondary PE!

	Hear Don Hellison's views about PE on a free video link!
	Interested in teaching cooperative games or mountain biking? Two great units are linked online.
	Bane McCracken asks "How Far to Mt. Katahdin," and explains how his students learn to calculate while "hiking" the Appalachian Trail.
	To Stretch or Not to Stretch...that is the question. Read the answer!
	And much more...

Interdisciplinary PE

Steve Jefferies, steps in as Guest Editor for this issue. He wonders whether future PE teachers should be trained to be both instructors and school PE consultants? Read more...

	Did you know that an "International Walk to School Day" is planned for October 2nd? Download planning details.
	Social Studies: States of Fitness- Grades 1-6
	English: Bodies of Letters - Grades K-4
	Science: Them Bones- Grades 2-5
	Math: PacMan Chomps Again - Grades 1-3
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PE in the 21st Century Remember physical education? Daily lap running, mind-numbing jumping jacks, and the same boring team sports repeated at every grade? Think again. Physical education is changing. Look in today's gyms and you'll see kids unicycling and juggling, learning to skate or play hockey, and practicing the latest line dances. Fly fishing, archery, rock climbing, golf, yoga - you name it and somewhere there's a PE class. Although the name's the same, physical education in schools and colleges has a new goal: keeping people active and healthy. The reason is obvious. Not only are American adults overweight but now there's an obesity epidemic among young people. Overweight and out of shape, more and more young people have high cholesterol, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes. Today's inactive youth are at a greater risk than ever of cardiovascular related diseases and cancer. Health care costs over the next half-century will explode. More alarming is the fact that creative minds don't work well inside sick bodies. Continued... To read the complete article click here. Thanks to those of you who visited the PE Forum this week. Visit the #1 discussion forum on the web for physical educators! Steve Jefferies PELINKS4U

Coaching & Sports

In this issue, Gib Darden focuses on physical safety of youth sports participants.

	Is your high school athletic program safe? Here is how you can tell.
	Strength training as a preventative technique.
	Guidelines for safe exercise and sport for children.
	Overuse injuries in youth. What are they, and how do we prevent them?
	Click here to read these and much more...

Debby Mitchell, edits this week's technology section. Here's a sampling:

	Hillsborough Elementary Physical Education web site includes on-line helpful curriculum information and resources.
	"Life's Playbook for Success" offers inspirational insights and an educator's handbook.
	Did you know there were 40 assets that all young people need? Learn more...
	Link to the Official NFL Site for Kids.
	Cyber PE web site featured!
	Click here for details on these and other topics in this week's technology page.

	The NEW Physical Education was featured on National Public Radio this week. Nice piece! Worth hearing and sharing with others.
	Funding available through CDC to promote physical activity among youth. Click here for more information.
	In an effort to increase pedestrian advocacy groups, the National Congress of Pedestrian Advocates will meet in Oakland, California. If interested in learning more about these efforts, click here.
	Copies of the National Blueprint: Increasing Physical Activity Among Adults Age 50 and Older can be found here.
	Jack Hutslar writes about the "Silly Dodgeball Debate" Click here and scroll to bottom.
	PE Praxis web page available, courtesy of Donna Woolard.
	Lynn Housner & Terry Senne are looking for programs that have implemented the NASPE standards within their curricula and within their programs for an upcoming JOPERD issue. Contact Terry if interested.
	CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP CALENDAR Let us know if you have a conference or workshop we can add to our calendar. Thanks.

Darren Dale this issue's Fitness, Health, & Nutrition Editor, highlights the following:

	Missing from the Dodgeball debate - for most students it is a sedentary activity!
	Sing along tunes to help students learn about food safety!
	Johns Hopkins University, Environhealth Link examines the link between health and our environment.
	Learn more about the impact of AIDS on young people.
	Plus, lots more on nutrition, exercise, weight control, and health topics.

Adapted Physical Education

Cindy Piletic, our Adapted Editor, focuses this issue on mental retardation, and the importance of exercise for those with the condition.

	What is mental retardation, and what causes it?
	What you should consider when planning lessons that will include kids with mental retardation.
	Detail on conditions that may be experienced by individuals with mental retardation.
	Adaptive physical education resources, and much more...

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