physical education for children

"This guide will help teens navigate all the difficult moments [in gym], like being picked last for a team or fielding snarky comments about lack of coordination or skills"--Amazon.com.

"A guide to both conceptual and practical approaches to building resilience. In particular, it examines children's physical development as it relates to resilience, including topics such as active play, physical risk-taking, safety and injury, and so on. By providing an in-depth exploration of both the theoretical and practical sides of building resilience, this book will help educators use effective strategies throughout their practice to better support the children and families they serve"--.

Provides objectives, equipment lists, skills lists, instructions, teaching hints, and variations for more than 140 games for third through eighth grade physical education classes.

A guide for the even grades K-12.

Provides one hundred lesson plans for elementary physical education teachers; and includes take-home challenges, fitness calendars, games, assessments, and standards.

Presents exercises and worksheets for Physical Education teachers of kindergarten through eighth grade on the basic skills involved in nine different team and individual sports such as basketball, football, soccer, softball, volleyball, tennis, track, and gymnastics.