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Mountain
Biking
George Goss
This page is built for the riders ranging from novice to professional
who are interested in the rewarding activity of mountain biking.
If you are looking for links to bike dealers, teams, clubs, events,
and accessories, you are on the right trail. If you are searching
for safety tips and lesson ideas to instruct a class or your little
one at home, you have come to an extremely helpful page.
Orienteering
Hillary Lampard
This unit plan for orienteering is intended to be a cooperative
learning unit for physical education, math and social studies. It
is designed for use at the high school level. With some modification,
it would also be appropriate for younger students. (Editor's Note:
This is one of the BEST units. Be sure to take a look!)
Water Sports
Marie Smith
The purpose of this unit is to introduce students to various water
sports and the safety entailed within them. The unit will integrate
physical education, fitness, outdoor, and life concepts to the students.
The students will be introduced to boat safety, water-skiing skills,
and wake boarding skills and learn how to become involved an exciting
world of water.
Beginning
Golf
Jeff Olson
This unit plan was created for teachers interested in instructing
golf at the beginning level. It is designed to teach students some
of the basic elements of golf and give tips to the more intermediate
golfer.
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Online Curriculum Resources |
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Faced with revising your curriculum? Daunted by the task of developing
specific objectives and assessments? Want to see what others are
doing? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions
you may be like us wondering if too many folk are reinventing the
wheel!
While physical education and health curriculums certainly need
to be locally appropriate maybe it's not necessary for teachers
to start from scratch. In our state (Washington) so many teachers
live in rural areas and just don't have the time or resources to
devote to comprehensive curriculum revisions.
Fortunately, this may not be necessary. Several larger school
districts have devoted hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars
to completing this task so why not learn and borrow from them? For
example the Ontario Physical and
Health Education Association (OPHEA) based on Toronto Canada
has a wonderful collection of curriculum resources you can freely
access.
You do need to register as a member but that is free and available
to anyone. In return you can enjoy some fantastic curriculum materials
that others have developed. Take them and modify as needed to suit
your school or district. Click here.
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Editorial: Online Unit
Plans
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Depending on the length of time you have been a PELINKS4U reader
you may or may not know about the existence of many online unit
plans.
These plans were developed by students at Central Washington University.
They cover a variety of different teaching topics and as you might
expect vary a lot in quality. All units do however include a list
of references so that if the topic interests you it would be easy
to find more information.
To access these units you need to click on the "Click Down"
menu bar at the top left side of this (and every) page. Highlight
"Teaching Unit Plans" and you'll see the list of what's
available.
WARNING: Several of the students recently graduated so their units
are currently unavailable. Over the next week or so we will be attempting
to transfer the units onto the PELINKS4U server. If you see something
that is not working please make a note to revisit. If it still isn't
working after a week or so drop us an e-mail reminder and we will
attempt to fix.
Finally, if you have students producing similar kinds of instructional
aids please let us know. We would love to feature them. Thanks for
your interest and support.
Steve
Jefferies
Technology Section Editor
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Certificate Creator
(Recommended by PE Central)
Certificate Creator is the Internet's first site that allows
you to customize the generation of certificates for school, business
or personal use to be printed out on your own printer!
There are currently 38 prebuilt certificates to choose from and
customize in 5 different categories.
Creating certificates is easy to do, you will create your first
certificate in less than 5 minutes.
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"You can make more friends in two months by becoming
interested in other people than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you." Dale Carnegie
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PE Central has
a great list of resources that are absolutely free and available
to support your teaching. Sample items include:
- interactive health education software
- health and motivational posters
- mazes and crossword puzzles to quiz your students
- web site design tools
- whole web sites devoted to providing you with free educational
materials
Check out this resource by clicking here.
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Discussion Forums |
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PE
Forum
As you probably know, PELINKS4U sponsors the
PE Forum - a kind of bulletin board for posting and responding
to messages. It's free and a great place to express and opinion
or request information. You can even register to be sent information
when new postings occur. Visit today! Click here.
Sports
Media Forum
This week you can join an interactive discussion engaged in :
"Dodge Ball vs. Dodge Ball Activities" For more information, surf
to: Sports Media. Take
up the challenge and have a nice discussion! (Editor's Note: The
PE Forum also has many postings on this topic if you want more
reading!)
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