Fitness Education for Children provides a multidisciplinary approach to teaching health-related fitness at the elementary school level. Much more than just a games and activities book, this comprehensive resource helps practitioners build successful programs that will meet the challenging health demands of the 21st century.Written by the coauthor of the nationally known Heart Smart Program, Fitness Education for Children emphasizes the need to make developing healthy lifestyles a team effort. In order to reinforce the benefits of physical activity both in and out of the school setting, the book presents ideas that involve not only physical education teachers but also-classroom teachers,-school lunchroom personnel, -health service professionals, -parents, and-community members.Loaded with ready-to-use information, Fitness Education for Children is a practical, time-saving resource. It helps you plan and implement a fitness education program by providing-a sample yearly plan and lesson plans;-a sample thematic unit;-17 learning activities for integrating specific fitness concepts into your classes;-more than 100 developmental exercises, games, and dance and rhythmic activities; and -11 school-wide events.You'll also find many other special features such as reproducible instructional materials, sample letters and contracts, authentic assessment instruments, a fitness education portfolio, task card samples, motivational strategies, and guidelines for including children with disabilities.Whether used as a blueprint for program development or as a resource to supplement and enrich an existing curriculum, this versatile guide gives you all the tools you need to promote healthy, active lifestyles to elementary school-aged children.

Offers advice on student teaching in physical education, covering such topics as the basics, facilities management, managing student behavior, liability, and preparing for and surviving the first years.

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Product Description: This text gives learners the ability to execute fundamentals, combinations, and patterns common to many physical activities before they master more specialized skills. The book includes a discussion of nutrition, physiology, biomechanics, psychology and sociology, providing students with a firm foundation for applying the Hierarchy of Movement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

"Art of the Real" presents the work of nine foremost figurative painters: Lennart Anderson, William Bailey, Jack Beal, Jane Freilicher, Alex katz, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Philip Pearlstein, Wayne Thiebaud, and Neil Welliver. These painters, who should perhaps be called the first new realists, began painting in the postwar period when abstract expressionism was on the ascendancy. The book contains 111 full-color paintings and 78 black-and-white drawings, paintings, and pastels illustrate the range, style, method, and importance of the of the figurative movement in American painting.