Product Description: Creativity is an essential component of sport performance. The player who can make decisions that are both unexpected – and therefore less easily predicted by his/her opponent – and appropriate is the player who is likely to be successful...read more

Product Description: This accessible reference covers commonly encountered terms and concepts in physics and includes key terms from mathematics, astrophysics, metallurgy, electronics, and physical chemistry. The entries are written in a clear and explanatory style to provide both straightforward definitions and invaluable background information...read more

Product Description: This book encourages effective teaching and learning in primary physical education, supporting the reader in meeting the QTS Standards and beyond. It explores the importance of PE for children′s learning and advocates a developmental approach to teaching; it also examines a model of professional practice based on personal reflection and self-appraisal, and emphasises the importance of continuing professional development...read more

Product Description: Focusing on physical education for kindergarten through grade 12, this user-friendly text emphasizes teaching strategies and theories to give students a foundation for designing an effective learning experience. New texts now come packaged with NASPE and PowerWeb: Health & Human Performance...read more

Focusing on physical education for kindergarten through grade 12, this user-friendly text emphasizes teaching strategies and theories to give students a foundation for designing an effective learning experience.

Product Description: Constructing Children's Physical Education Experiences encompasses the philosophical approach to teaching physical education called the Movement Approach, which is supported by constructivist education principles. This book introduces the preservice teacher to elementary school physical education by focusing on philosophy and content...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book has arisen out of a need for a text which tackles the special issues relating to coaching children (from 6 - 16) in sport. Academics (many with coaching experience) and practitioners have been commissioned to write on their specialist areas.

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Product Description: This accessible reference covers commonly encountered terms and concepts in physics and includes key terms from mathematics, astrophysics, metallurgy, electronics, and physical chemistry. The entries are written in a clear and explanatory style to provide both straightforward definitions and invaluable background information...read more

Product Description: Together, these two books provide the background information teachers need and complete lesson plans to teach physical education. Both concepts and lesson plans are based on research from motor learning and development, exercise, physiology and sport psychology...read more

Product Description: Part of a course which includes "Physical Education for Children - Daily Lesson Plans", this book guides teachers beyond merely teaching activities to planning and teaching quality physical education classes. They'll learn how to teach lessons that combine ordered movement experiences to best enhance motor development, match activities to the developmental level of each class, measure and improve children's physical fitness, and formulate yearly instruction plans...read more