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**ELEMENTARY ** **PHYSICAL EDUCATION ** media type="custom" key="9759444" width="436" height="436" align="center"

PE EDUCATES THE WHOLE CHILD

**USEFULL LINKS:** Website designed for health and physical education teachers, parents, and students. This website's goal is to provide the latest information developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children.
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The Presiden't Challenge Provides quality information regarding physical education, sports, and good nutrition to empower Americans of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities to adopt a healthy lifestyle through regular physical activity, participation in sports, and healthy eating.

Energy Balance 101 ﻿Giving kids the support they need for an active, healthy lifestyle. Teachers and families can use this website for helful suggestions on both staying active and eating healthy.

VERB ﻿Encouraging tweens (youth ages 9-13) to be physically active everyday. This website allows for support to both tweens, and families, to increase their awareness for increasing their daily activity.

﻿Watch Know Physical and Health Education Giving teachers, students, and families the ability to watch useful videos that will promote a positive physcial, and active, lifestyle. The videos are kid appropriate and range from every level.

﻿Passport to Play <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">﻿This is a fun way to keep kids' minds engaged and bodies active. This program allows students to see how kids from around the world play, snack, and grow.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">﻿Educational Mini Movies for PE and Sports <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">﻿This is an excellent source of tutorial videos that deal with character within activities and the essential fundamentals of those activities. Easily can be used by teachers, students, and families.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">﻿AAHPERD <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">﻿American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. This alliance is designed to support professionals with opportunities, guidelines, and standards to promote a creative, healthy, and active lifestyle.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">NAHPERD <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">﻿Nebraska Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. This is the state alliance that reflects AAHPERD.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">﻿Games Kids Play <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">﻿This site provides a list of games that kids can play to stay active during other times than physical education class. There are multiple games that involve a group of kids and multiple games that can be performed individually.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Mr. Gym <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">﻿Provides a resource for various games and fundamentals. It also provides a resource for assessment pieces and ideas on activities, standards, and rules.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">SPARK <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">A website dedicated to creating, implementing, and evaluating programs that promote lifelong wellness. The website includes material and activities that can be used for free. It also has a section to subscribe.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">E HOW Physical Education <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Provides articles on physical education, fitness, and health. A good resource that is updated on a regular basis.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Action for Healthy Kids <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">﻿A webisite to inform on the importance of having kids eating right and staying active. Resources and support material are provided within the site.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">American Heart Association - Jump Rope for Heart <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">﻿Great interactive site for kids, parents, and teachers. The resources are used to support a healthy lifestyle and to be active in preventing heart disease.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Live Healthy Nebraska <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">﻿A website designed to provide you with resources such as videos and articles on how to work toward living a healthy and active lifestyle.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Kid's Health <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">﻿Provides doctor-approved articles, animations, games, and resources to help kids learn more about their bodies and stay healthy.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Rock the Kitchen <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">﻿Website for kids and their parents to learn more about health, fitness, and nutrition through fun games, recipes, and articles.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">NFL Rush - Play 60 <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">﻿An active website for students and parents to pledge to play 60 minutes each day. There are plenty of resources and tools within this website that help promote an active lifestyle.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Kid Fitness <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Website with educational tools to engage, educate, and inspire children. These resources allow children to make healthy choices while having fun doing so.

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 300%;">HISTORY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES media type="custom" key="9763020" width="269" height="269" align="center" <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 250%;">Ryan Thompson: ryan.thompson@agps.org