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Physical Education Unit & Lesson Plans PE Unit Plans http://www.pelinks4u.org/links/unitplans.htm Physical Education Lessons http://members.tripod.com/~pazz/lesson.html Sports Media http://www.sports-media.org PE Central http://www.pecentral.org/       lessonideas/pelessonplans.html Lesson Plans Page http://www.lessonplanspage.com/PE.htm Eric http://askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/ Teachers.net http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/posts.html PE Lesson Plans http://schools.eastnet.ecu.edu/       pitt/ayden/physed8.htm Responsible Healthy Lifestyles - Teachers Resource Guide http://www.uen.org/utahlink/lp_res /movem100.html Your Web Site! In my next issue I would like to present a number of web sites created by physical education teachers. They can take any form: Sites to promote your schools physical education program, sites that provide instruction, or sites that provide other teachers with resources. Please send me either your favorite web site created by a colleague, or a site that you have created yourself.

Instructional Videos Need video to enhance your instruction? Sport Videos specialize in mail-order rentals of sports and athletic instruction and training videos. Go to their web site for the list of sports and topics in which you can rent videos. Physical Education Resources GreatActivities.net has a number of teaching resources specific to physical education. Go to their web site for information on their "Field Day Survival Guide". Health Headlines Have your students keep up-to-date with the latest Health and Fitness news at Headlinkspot.com. This is a great resource for students studying the impact of health and fitness on society, or just wanting to keep up-to-date with the latest developments within the health sector. Sports Headlines NBCSports.com is a great resource for keeping up-to-date with the world of both amateur and professional sport. The site contains links to a wide variety of popular sports, as well as the Olympic, Women's Sport, and High School sport. Looking for a New Activity? Goaltimate is the "Sport of the New Millennium"! Similar to Ultimate Frisbee, Goaltimate is a fast paced mentally and physically challenging disc sport. The web site provides all the information you need to start teaching Goaltimate to your students. Click here to purchase an instructional video that you can show to your students to aid instruction.

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Physical Education: Should It Be in the Core Curriculum? by Carl Gabbard Carl Gabbard is a professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas A&M University, and president of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. "One thing clearly evident in today's educational climate is that greater demands are being placed on principals to cram more into the school day. Faced with mandates to emphasize and expand the traditional core curricular subjects—language arts, math, and science—many principals find themselves hard-pressed to schedule meaningful instruction in music, art, technology, and physical education. When speaking with principals about physical education, two viewpoints become evident. One perspective is that physical education is an essential part of the core curriculum and, as such, deserves equal priority in scheduling with other curricular areas. Unfortunately, many other administrators express the view that, while acknowledging that physical education is important to child development and school activities, they consider it to be an "enrichment" or "frill" unworthy of high priority—especially if a school's goal is improving poor academic performance. Read the rest of this article here.

On-Line Graduate Degrees An increasing number of universities are offering on-line graduate degrees in physical education. The following links list institutions offering graduate degrees in the following subjects areas: Kinesiology & Exercise Science Physical Education Sport Psychology Sport Administration School Athletics PE Central also has a section on Graduate Schools/On-line courses for Physical Education. On-Line Courses Professional development from the comfort of your own home? It sounds too good to be true, but many groups are now offering on-line courses in a wide variety of topics. Through the Human Kinetics On-Line Learning Center professionals can take courses on a wide variety of physical activity related subjects such as Fitness through Walking and Running, Exercise Nutrition, Fitness Program Design for Sedentary and Active People, as well as some other courses more specifically designed for those with an interest in sports medicine. Yahoo! Adult and Continuing Education provides a comprehensive list of institutions that provide on-line courses in a number of areas, some of which pertains to computers, technology, health and fitness. On-Line Tutorials Teach-nology.com provides a number of on-line tutorials for teachers, covering a wide variety of teaching relevant subjects including 15 tutorials specifically aimed at "Teaching with Technology". The Atomic Learning Library has a number of video and text based tutorials on a wide variety of software for both the Mac and PC platform. Their tutorials cover software such as Microsoft Office, iMovie, Hyperstudio, and Kidspiration. Some of the tutorials, or parts of the tutorials are free, but to gain access to all tutorials there is a yearly subscription fee of $49.99 for individuals, which is a steal for all the information provided on the site. School and business subscriptions can also be obtained. Check the site for specific information. Workshops Dr. Bonnie Mohnsen frequently provides workshops in many areas of physical education, from "Building a Quality Physical Education Program" to "Strengthening your Program through Technology". Click on the above link to go to a list of all upcoming workshops in your area. Apple also provide a number of different workshops across the country. Some are free, some are on a first come first served bases, and others require a registration fee. Look for workshops in your area. They have general workshops and seminars for the general public, and other education focused workshops specifically designed for teachers.

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