Primary Junior Health & Physical Education

Explains the concept of the ball and fielding games such as baseball and cricket.

Children Moving, introduces a process of teaching that provides a background for adapting, adjusting, and modifying lessons so they are interesting and worthwhile for all children - from the lowest to the highest skill and fitness levels.  The ultimate goal is to guide youngsters in the process of becoming physically active for a lifetime.  Rather than simply describing games and activities, Children Moving emphasizes the importance of children learning to move by focusing on developmentally appropriate skill themes that are used in virtually all sports and physical activities.  The intended result is children becoming skillful movers and eager participants in physical activity. 

A valuable reference for both the pre-service and in-service elementary Physical Education teacher, this text complements Dynamic Physical Education for Elementary School Children, Eighteenth Edition and is automatically packaged with each copy of the main text. Teachers of kindergarten through sixth grade will benefit from using these lesson plans as a guide for presenting movement experiences and skills in a sequential and well-ordered manner. Plans also include ideas for integrating academic content into daily classes. The lessons are presented in three complete sets that cover unique developmental levels, grades K-2, 3-4, and 5-6. Each section contains a yearlong syllabus to assist teachers with planning. All the information necessary to present a comprehensive lesson in included in this package.--Publisher's website.

Health education and physical education are traditionally siloed--for no good reason, according to authors Matthew Cummiskey and Frances Cleland Donnelly. So, through Elementary School Wellness Education, the two authors provide a blueprint, complete with lesson plans, for teachers to fuse health education and physical education into one elementary school class. "Students should be educated in a more holistic manner," says Cummiskey. "We applied the concept of school wellness education at the elementary level, which has components of both traditional health education and physical education." Elementary School Wellness Education offers the following: 37 detailed lesson plans for grades K-5 (19 lessons for K-2 and 18 lessons for grades 3-5) that are tied to SHAPE America Outcomes and National Health Education Performance Indicators Clear instruction on how to apply the plans, making it perfect for both preservice and in-service teachers More than 70 lesson plan handouts (with four-color graphics), available in the HKPropel platform, that are easy for teachers to print A test package, presentation package, and instructor guide that make this ideal for existing and emerging teacher education courses

Helping children, aged 3-7, build FUNdational movement skills through over 100 pages of games involving underhand rolling, underhand throwing, overhand throwing, catching, kicking, striking, and dribbling.

Helping children, aged 3-7, build FUNdational movement skills through over 100 pages of games involving one-legged balance, balanced walk, log rolls, dynamic balances, running, dodging, skipping, galloping, jumping, leaping, and hopping

"Engaging and developmental games with a focus towards games involving Invasion--this applies to many sports like soccer, basketball, water polo, lacrosse...."--CIRA Ontario website.

Lesson Planning for Elementary Physical Education works in tandem with The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education to provide the knowledge base and practical strategies for creating a high-quality primary physical education curriculum. Part I: Foundations of Lesson Planning -- Chapter 1. Planning Lessons for Student Learning -- Chapter 2. Meeting the National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes in Elementary School -- Chapter 3. Making the Most of Every Lesson -- Part ll: Lesson Plans -- Chapter 4. Teaching for Competency in Health-Related Fitness -- Chapter 5. Teaching for Competency in Movement Concepts -- Chapter 6. Teaching for Competency in Locomotor Skills -- Chapter 7. Teaching for Competency in Nonlocomotor Skills -- Chapter 8. Teaching for Competency in Manipulative Skills.

"Engaging and developmental games with a focus towards games involving nets and games involving walls, with a goal to helping participants learn the concepts helpful in games such as badminton, volleyball, tennis, squash..."--CIRA Ontario website.

"Engaging and developmental games with a focus towards games involving targets. Some of these targets are for games like bowling, or curling, but also help with invasion games like soccer, and basketball...."--CIRA Ontario website.

Focusing on physical education for kindergarten through grade 12, this text emphasizes teaching strategies, theories, and skills to give students a foundation for designing an effective learning experience. It also focuses on the Physical Education National Beginning Teaching Standards with updates in assessment and student motivation.