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PE Metrics, 3rd Edition

This book aligns with SHAPE America’s National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education, and as a result is a text that you can use with confidence as you help develop physical literacy in your students.

Lesson Planning for Skills-Based Health Education

Lesson Planning for Skills-Based Health Education is a highly practical and useful resource for middle school and high school health educators looking for innovative and tried-and-true ways to implement a skills-based approach to health education.

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Developmental and Adapted Physical Activity Assessment 2nd Edition

Variables in assessment instruments and in the administration and interpretation of tests can sometimes generate more questions than answers. That’s why special education and adapted physical activity teachers have come to rely on Developmental and Adapted Physical Activity Assessment. Now in its second edition, this is the one of the only textbooks that focuses solely on assessment, providing valuable and in-depth clarity, guidance, and understanding in the principles and practical applications of assessment.

Effective Physical Education Content and Instruction With Web Resource

As a physical educator (or student preparing to become one), you need to know more than the skills, techniques, and tactics of the sports and activities you teach. You need to understand, among other things, how to create task progressions, how to organize and adapt those tasks, and how to detect and correct student errors. Effective Physical Education Content and Instruction will help you learn how to do just that.

National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education

This text presents the new National Standards for K-12 Physical Education. It includes new, measurable grade-level outcomes for elementary, middle, and high school students. All outcomes are written to align with the standards and with the intent of fostering lifelong physical activity.

 
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Moving With Words and Actions

Moving With Words & Actions will help you introduce the skills and knowledge that builds the physical literacy children will need to succeed in physical education classes in subsequent grades. This dynamic new resource offers more than 70 lesson plans, all of which are aligned with SHAPE America’s National Standards for K-12 Physical Education.

The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education

The definitive guide for future K-12 physical educators, as well as current teachers and administrators. This new text delivers comprehensive coverage of what future teachers need to know about teaching physical education – at any level – and offers a flexible, individualized approach to enhancing student learning and skill acquisition that is aligned with SHAPE America's National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes.

The Essentials of Teaching Health Education

The Essentials of Teaching Health Education presents a skills-based approach to teaching K-12 health education—one that will prepare your students for success in school and beyond. You’ll learn practical approaches to putting the contents in action and rely on an array of teaching and assessment strategies.

Teaching Fundamental Motor Skills, 3rd Edition

Helps you guide your students in mastering the critical elements of 8 locomotor and 17 manipulative skills. This approach offers a perfect balance between sound pedagogy and fun activities – all aligned with SHAPE America's National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes – that will engage your students and keep them learning.

 
Lesson Planning for High School Physical Education: Meeting the National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes

This resource offers more than 240 sequential and comprehensive lesson plans that are aligned with SHAPE America's National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education. You can use the plans as they are or use them as models to create your own units and lessons.

Lesson Planning for Middle School Physical Education: Meeting the National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes

Offers 176 lessons - arranged in 22 modules - that align directly with SHAPE America's National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes. Easy-to-implement lesson plans for grades 6 through 8, on topics such as badminton, social dance, volleyball, adventure activities and many, many more...all geared toward having students meeting the Grade-Level Outcomes for middle school.

Lesson Planning for Elementary Physical Education: Meeting the National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes

Offers expert guidance in implementing lessons and curricula that are aligned with SHAPE America's National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes. The 65 lesson plans and over 200 learning experiences are flexible, reflect best practices, and foster the achievement of physical literacy.