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  • Farther Than the Eye Can See


    Free Technology for TeachersAuthority Authority: 597
    If youre looking for an inspirational story to watch for yourself and or to share with your students, they dont get much better than this one. In 2001, Erik Weihenmeyer became the first blind person to summit Mount Everest . The story of his climb is told in the one hour movie embedded below.
    1 day ago
  • Best of Us Challenge: PE classes get involved


    Peaceful PlaygroundsAuthority Authority: 124
    Applications for Education The Best of Us Challenge provides a fun opportunity to get kids excited about physical education challenges and compete with some of the best athletes in the world. The Best of Us Challenge also provides an opportunity for students who may not fit into the typical "athlete" mold to ...
    4 days ago
  • Mileage Club Motivates Runners


    Peaceful PlaygroundsAuthority Authority: 124
    Palm City Elementary PE teachers program encourages kids to run for fitness and fun. http://www.tcpalm.com/videos/detail/students-get-running-mileage-club View the video of physical education teacher talking about motivating her students to run so that they will be successful at the mile run component in the ...
    5 days ago
  • New Study: Daily PE Key to Improving Health


    Peaceful PlaygroundsAuthority Authority: 124
    School-based physical education plays a key role in curbing obesity and improving fitness among adolescents from low-income communities, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley. The study, which identifies opportunities for adolescents to improve ...
    6 days ago
  • Obesity and Lack of Physical Education Obstacles to Military Readiness


    Peaceful PlaygroundsAuthority Authority: 124
    A recently released report, "Ready, Willing and Unable to Serve," states that the military had one of its best recruiting years since the draft ended in 1973. This is especially surprising since about 75 percent of the countrys 17- to 24-year-olds are ineligible for military service, largely because they are poorly ...
    1 week ago
  • Lubricant use ‘boosts sexual pleasure’


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 718
    Washington, Nov 9 (ANI): Lubricant use during sexual activity alone or with a partner contributes to higher ratings of pleasurable and satisfying sex, a new study has revealed.Personal lubricants have long been recommended to women to improve the comfort of sexual intercourse and to reduce the risk of vaginal tearing, ...
    1 week ago
  • Physical education improves health in low-income adolescents (Re-issue)


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 718
    Washington, Nov 8 (ANI): A new study has shown that school-based physical education plays a key role in curbing obesity and improving fitness among adolescents from low-income communities.Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley have found that regular participation in PE class is ...
    1 week ago
  • Geography Awareness Week, November 15-21


    Millard Fillmore's BathtubAuthority Authority: 499
    Geography Awareness week is sneaking up — November 15-21 . Got your special lesson plans ready, teachers ? Posted in Education, Geography - Economic, Geography - Physical, Geography - Political, Lesson plans Tagged: Education, geography, Geography Awareness Week, Lesson plans
    1 week ago
  • Physical education improves health in low-income adolescents


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 718
    Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): A new study has shown that school-based physical education plays a key role in curbing obesity and improving fitness among adolescents from low-income communities.Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley have found that regular participation in PE class is ...
    1 week ago
  • Surely we’ve found everything by now


    Millard Fillmore's BathtubAuthority Authority: 499
    Well, no, we haven’t.  Nice little post by a photographer urging people to go look to see what they can find, with a brilliantly concise set of arguments about big things discovered just in the past few years. Nice photos, too — go see. Posted in Adventure, Education, Explorers and Exploration, Geography - ...
    1 week ago
  • Featured Article: Can Physical Education Make You Smarter?


    Peaceful PlaygroundsAuthority Authority: 124
    For some time, researchers have known that exercise changes the structure of the brain, resulting in improvements in concentration, fidgeting and creates new brain cells. The body-mind link is well documented. But current thinking and actions (like eliminating recess and physical education) leads me to question ...
    1 week ago
  • A Fun Physical Education and Video Activity


    Free Technology for TeachersAuthority Authority: 597
    The International Olympic Committee in partnership with YouTube has launched a new site called The Best of Us Challenge . The Best of Us Challenge is designed to give average people a chance to test their unique athletic abilities against those of real Olympians. Through The Best of Us Challenge, participants ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Homecoming at Oakland Tech


    The Education ReportAuthority Authority: 126
    Lillian Mongeau and Becky Palstrom from Oakland North , a UC Berkeley School of Journalism blog, captured a quintessential slice of high school life in an audio slideshow about the Oakland Technical High School homecoming game (and the basic rules of football). Mongeau took the photos, and Palstrom interviewed ...
    2 weeks ago
  • New York Teacher


    EdwizeAuthority Authority: 423
    Highlights from the Oct. 29 issue of New York Teacher : The DOE’s new on-street parking placards for school staff, which will take effect on Nov. 1, will be given out using a new formula this year. Teachers and other school staff should be among the groups given preference for the swine flu vaccine if they ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Middle school P.E. isnt just dodgeball anymore


    Sentinel School ZoneAuthority Authority: 440
    Ive been hanging out lately in physical-education classes at middle schools, seeing what theyve been doing. As a middle schooler, I really hated gym. But Ive got to tell you, Ive been surprised and impressed by some of the things...
    3 weeks ago
  • Elementary P.E.: Did you opt your kid out? Did you know you could?


    Sentinel School ZoneAuthority Authority: 440
    A law passed in 2008 by the Florida Legislature was designed to add more P.E. to Floridas middle schools. But it provided an opt-out clause that parents could invoke, if they didnt want their child taking the class. The opt-out...
    3 weeks ago
  • Fitness For Kids ? Some Examples Of Basic Kids Fitness Routines


    Wish Everyone Good Health.Authority Authority: 465
    These days, more and more parents are becoming concerned about the fitness of their kids. This is not surprising given the problems of childhood obesity and the increasing weight and lack of fitness that we are seeing in children. Child obesity and diabetes levels are rising dramatically. There is also the issue that ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Fit enough to be teacher of the year


    Courier Times NowAuthority Authority: 604
    As a physical education teacher at Maple Point Middle School in Middletown, Kathleen Kenney’s philosophy is that gym class should be a moving experience. So much so, that she hopes her students will not only always remember how to play handball, or paddle a canoe, but that they’ll also do those things for the ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Physical Education: Charlotte Mason Swedish Drill Book


    FreelyEducate.comAuthority Authority: 425
    The following is from a newletter that I receive from the Simply Charlotte Mason website: Many of you contacted us to find out where you might be able to get a copy of the book we mentioned: The Swedish Drill...
    3 weeks ago
  • The Yale Gymnasium


    Oldtime Strongman TrainingAuthority Authority: 134
    The Yale Gymnasium Another fine example of an incredible Gymnasium was the one at Yale University, shown here in a few rare turn-of-the-century photos. This grand gymnasium was located at 55 Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut and was under the direction of Mr. William Gilbert Anderson, a famous physical ...
    3 weeks ago

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