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Come to our booth and visit a session by one of our authors!
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After two years of hard work I am pleased to announce that Fitness for Life: Elementary School will be introduced at this year’s AAHPERD National Convention in Indianapolis (March 16-20). The video-based program for grades K-6 complements the award winning Fitness for Life (high school) and Fitness for Life: Middle School. My co-authors and I (Guy Le Masurier, Dolly Lambdin, and Meg Greiner) invite all attendees of this year’s convention to join us at a special session (2:00 pm Wedne
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Let’s Move is a national program initiated by First Lady Michelle Obama to help America’s youth adopt healthy lifestyles. Central to the program are increasing physical activity and promoting healthier eating among youth. President Obama, by executive order, established a taskforce to implement the program. Let’s Move strongly endorses high quality physical education programs as one of the most important way to get kids moving.
Let’s Move is a program that a
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Finding appropriate physical education activities for young children is a challenge for educators. Human Kinetics has a variety of resources to help plan a successful physical education program.
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The popular media has not always been kind to Physical Education. Recently a feature in USA Today (June 11, 2009, page 7D) proclaimed, “PE may have little effect on kids’s overall activity.” The newspaper article author was Jillian Berman. The study she cited was done in England. According to the newspaper article children “with the most phys-ed time got an average of 9.2 hours of scheduled exercise a week; students at the school offering the fewest opportunities got an a
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