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Fundamentals of Athletic Training-2nd Edition

An athletic trainer must be able identify the problem and perform a primary assessment in emergency situations.

PE Connections

Learn how to provide the experiences that help students succeed in a much broader sense than is usually associated with a physical education class.

Athletic Fitness for Kids

Improve soccer players’ speed

Teaching Self-Defense in Secondary Physical Education

Simple crime prevention tips that will help reduce your chance of becoming a victim.

Sport First Aid-4th Edition

After completing the emergency action steps and establishing the ABCs, you should begin the physical assessment to pinpoint the nature, site, and severity of a sport injury or illness. Do not begin the physical assessment until the ABCs have been established. As with the emergency action steps, follow a standard pattern, such as the following, to make the evaluation more thorough. The acronym HIT will help you remember these steps.

Let's Play!

Children master new skills in an environment that encourages skill development and positive interactions.

Everybody Move!-2nd Edition

Two fun classroom games to kids moving and enjoying being active.

Everybody Move!-2nd Edition

Leaves, pumpkins, snowflakes and poinsettia’s--incorporate these seasonal staples into classroom and playground games that will keep kids having fun and staying active.

Schoolwide Physical Activity

Team-Building Activities for the Digital Age

In order for growth activities to be successful, you as the facilitator should know your purpose, your audience, your environment, the needed equipment and supplies, and when to change plans to adapt to the participants.

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Introducing Fitness for Life: Elementary School

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

Let’s Move: First Lady and Surgeon General Boost Physical Education

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

Need help with physical education activities for the young children?

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.

Quality Physical Education Can Make a Difference (reprint from author blog)

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