-Engage kids in fun, new games while teaching them key fitness concepts. -Provide appropriate skills practice for students. -Offer plenty of variations to keep the games fresh and exciting. -Use field-tested games that are ready to go at a moment's notice. Fun, Fitness, and Skills: The Powerful Original Games Approach brings 93 fresh games with countless variations. The games are easy to adjust to all grade and ability levels, and you'll never run out of fresh ideas for fun and exciting games that teach fitness concepts and skills. Created by a former teacher and current physical education mentor and staff developer with the Department of Education in New York City, these games have been field-tested in many schools with diverse populations at various grade levels. Yet the outcome of those field tests has been uniform: Kids love the games and teachers find them to be educationally sound and easy to implement. In Fun, Fitness, and Skills, you will find -easy-to-follow games that allow you to concentrate on kids being active and having fun; -clearly written educational objectives for each game that help you focus on key fitness concepts and skills to be learned; -a game finder that makes selecting the right game for your needs quick and easy; -tips and suggestions for teaching and classroom management; and -variations to keep the games fresh and interesting. The games include warm-ups, fitness and skill games, tag games, and games specially designed for students in kindergarten and first grade. The book also encourages creativity as you create your own games. Many of the games can be modified by changing equipment or a few rules for a sport or activity. Several games use fantasy, holidays, movies, television shows, or classic games with a twist. Most games are cooperative in nature but have a low-key competitive element or variation that will help students understand how to work together while also learning how to compete appropriately and with good sportsmanship. These games, which address the NASPE National Standards, will help you meet important physical education objectives. The book focuses on activity that is fun while also building skills for activities that students can enjoy for life. Indeed, through Fun, Fitness, and Skills: The Powerful Original Games Approach, kids will have fun and learn while practicing skills and fitness concepts. You will discover exciting new ways to teach or improve your students' skills and fitness. This cookbook of games with all their variations will be a recipe for active success in your classes!

Incorporate activities that energize and engage students in grades PK–K using Fun, Fitness, and Learning! This 64-page book includes 55 large-group activities and more than 45 hands-on practice pages that strengthen students’ cognitive skills and promote motor planning, body awareness, visual memory, and locomotor skills. The book covers topics such as learning the alphabet, identifying colors, recognizing emotions, moving the body for fitness, using the five senses, and numbers and counting. The book supports Head Start and NAEYC standards.

Incorporate activities that energize and engage students in grades PK–K using Fun, Fitness, and Learning! This 64-page book includes 55 large-group activities and more than 45 hands-on practice pages that strengthen students’ cognitive skills and promote motor planning, body awareness, visual memory, and locomotor skills. The book covers topics such as learning the alphabet, identifying colors, recognizing emotions, moving the body for fitness, using the five senses, and numbers and counting. The book supports Head Start and NAEYC standards.

Fun Fitness Training For Kids contains fun-filled activities, games, healthy nutritional hints, and tips for adults working with children. It includes easy to learn games to be performed individually, with a partner, or in a group, and are suitable for personal training, group exercise, or just for the fun of fitness

Incorporate activities that energize and engage students in grade 1 using Fun, Fitness, and Learning! This 64-page book includes 55 large-group activities in which students use locomotor or nonlocomotor skills while activating their thinking skills. To reinforce what has been learned during the group activities, students complete half-page exercises for individualized skill practice. Lessons in this dynamic resource cover topics such as phonemic awareness, weather, writing mechanics, grammar, numbers, geometry and measurement, plants and animals, maps, citizenship, and fitness. The book supports NCTM and NCTE standards.

"Learn why it is important to keep fit and healthy. Why do we need to eat good food and exercise our muscles"--Inside front cover.

Student-Centered Physical Education presents over 100 fun physical activities that not only promote student fitness and skill development but also build the foundation for a physically active life. The authors' modular approach allows teachers to mix and match activities in order to achieve specific goals, creating multiple opportunities within each class period for students to succeed. Authors Timothy Smith and Nicholas Cestaro, who together have more than 50 years of teaching experience, have developed a student-centered approach to physical education to replace the outdated, subject-driven approach. By focusing on the needs of the preadolescent student rather than on sports or calisthenics, this proven program challenges exclusivity, boredom, and gender bias. Their strategies and activities make physical education relevant to your students and motivate them to participate in physical activity, both in the gym and after school. Part I, "A Student-Centered Modular Approach," helps you develop and organize your classes. You'll learn how to assemble modular lesson plans and how to increase their effectiveness using the teaching strategies presented. You'll also find a chapter on authentic assessment, which discusses the use of rubrics, portfolios, and portfolio cards. Next, Part II, "Teaching Modules," provides you with easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions for more than 100 fitness-related activities, including -warm-ups, -skill development activities, -team-oriented activities, and -individual and paired activities. Each activity is ready to be inserted into the modular lesson format presented in Part I. In addition, you'll find 10 detailed health-fitness modules-one for each month of the school year-that will help you present and reinforce key lifestyle concepts in addition to the "physical" components of physical education.