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This
week, PELINKS4U Section Editor Paula
Summit, brings you information on the following topics:
- 2001
PE Challenge
- Planet
PE - Featured web site
- Monster
Mash your way through Halloween
- Rubrics
Generator - here's one way grade rubrics
- Good
Sportsmanship - Jim and Janet Sundberg provide guidelines.
- Want
to teach circus skills?
- Olympic
Kids Zone - Let the Games go on...
- PE
Lesson Plans - (nice resource but be sure they fit into your curriculum!)
- Who
let the dogs out? - What...
- Line
Dance Archives
- click
here
to read more
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Introducing
our Section Editors
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This
week PELINKS4U features three new sections: Elementary PE, Coaching
and Sports, and Health, Fitness, & Nutrition. Like most of us,
the folk putting these together are enthusiastic volunteers and
we'd like you to meet them:
First
our "Elementary PE" section is edited this week by Paula
Summit. Paula has been a regular contributor to the PE listservs
for many years and teaches elementary PE in New York State. This
year she was selected as the "Elementary Teacher of the Year."
Paula also leads an American Online discussion group.
Our
Coaching and Sports section editor this issue is Gibson
Darden. Gib teaches at Radford University and is a regular
conference contributor on various coaching topics.
Andrew
Jenkins
and Scott
Roberts, professors at Central Washington University combined
to produce this week's "Health, Fitness, & Nutrition"
section. Andy is our health guru while Scott has written extensively
on fitness issues.
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Welcome to the new and improved PELINKS4U biweekly online magazine
for professionals in physical education, health, fitness, and sports.
As
you can see we have a new look and three new sections. Please browse
these pages and feel free to share your ideas and contributions
with the editors.
PELINKS4U
is produced with support from Central Washington University, our
site sponsors, and many enthusiastic volunteers. It's been an incredible
challenge and we hope you find it worthwhile. If you are interested
in contributing or find something not working or not visible on
our pages please let us know.
We
greatly appreciate your support and encouragement. Please tell your
colleagues about this resource and do visit the companies whose
support for the site makes our publication possible.
Steve
Jefferies,
PELINKS Publisher
Central Washington University
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Being
Fat is a Disease
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced in this month's
Journal of the American Medical Association that 18.9 percent of Americans
are obese. In the past decade, obesity among adults has risen by almost
60 percent. From 1998 to 1999, the CDCP says obesity among Americans
shot up six percent. Obesity accounts for 300,000 premature deaths
each year (second only to tobacco-related deaths) and accounts for
9.4 percent of the healthcare expenditures nationwide |
Gibson
Darden,
this week's PELINKS4U Coaching and Sports Section Editor, brings you
information on the following topics:
- Exciting
news about a national coaching education program.
- Does
heading a soccer ball cause brain damage?
- A
mental model for positive experiences in youth sports.
- Great
coaching tips from the CAC
- Should
athletics substitute for PE?
- Coach
Finder helps coaches find employment
- Lots
of self-improvement tips
- Football
coaches endorse PE
- The
need for athletic trainers.
- National
Youth Sports Safety Foundation is the featured web site.
- And
much more...
More
and more web sites are now exploring issues related to females participation
in sports. Here are a couple of selections that might interest you:
- The
Tucker
Center is dedicated to exploring how sport, recreation,
and physical activity affect the lives of girls and women.
- Women
in Sports is a site dedicated to providing role
models of women athletes that validate women's accomplishments
and perpetuate a new vision of women's abilities, autonomy and
self determination.
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Other
than exciting new changes to the PELINKS4U site, here are more newsworthy
items:
- Halloween
Safety Tips - share with your students
- Want
to get published? An International Committee of Sport Pedagogy (a section
of ICSSPE)
invites you to submit for a forthcoming publication on best practices.
Read about the publication
and download a form
for your submission. Deadline November 20th.
- NASPE
provides guidelines
on Early Childhood Movement Experiences.
- Experts
say recess essential for healthy development!
Andy
Jenkins
and Scott
Roberts are this week's, PELINKS4U Section Editors. Here's what
they found:
- Weight
training for children - myths and truths
- Caffeine
and Parkinson's Disease connection
- Don
Ardell's Wellness Site featured
- Don't
be THE authority on health issues...
- How
to avoid getting hamstrung-ed and side stitched.
- Why
it's important for kids to stay away from secondhand smoke
- How
PE should be promoting participation in regular physical activity
- Adult
fitness issues
- How
to spot health quacks!
- Click
here
for details
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PELINKS4U Site Features Visited |
If
our facelift has confused you here's what's happened to our regular features:
- Missing
Links?
- What would the PELINKS4U site be without its links! Don't worry
they're still here but no longer are we taking up one entire column
with links. Instead you can find them as part of a pull down menu
at the top of the page. Neat huh?
- PE
Forum?
- Eventually we hope for our own site forum but until we decide on
the format there's a button link to the PE Forum in the menu.
- PE-News
- If you aren't already subscribing the our biweekly emailed digest
of the PELINKS4U site you should be! We now have more than 15,000
folk on our list. Join them by clicking the button on the menu bar.
- Calendar
- You guessed! We now have a Conference & Workshop link directly
in the menu bar. Click to find out what's happening and be sure to
send us dates you'd like posted.
Contributors
Wanted!!
PELINKS4U
welcomes articles, letters, ideas, conference dates and reports, suggestions
for links and any suggestions for site improvements. Help to support quality
physical education by contributing to this site.
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