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Service Learning for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation

Determining whether a potential service-learning opportunity is a good fit for your class can be complicated. There’s more to finding a good service-learning project than just locating an agency that needs volunteers. A poor project fit can result in a neutral effect or a negative effect.

Hiking and Backpacking

Is your dog ready for the trail? Is the trail ready for your dog? Here are some points to consider when hiking with your pet.

Mountaineering

Strength and power are two vital factors for successful performance in activities such as mountaineering, climbing, and cross-country skiing.

Inclusive Recreation eBook

Quality recreation services start with your interest and willingness to serve a variety of people with a broad array of abilities.

Therapeutic Recreation Leadership and Programming eBook

The TRS, in fulfilling the blended role, draws upon the sensitivity, self-awareness, and interpersonal communication skills of a therapist or helper, as well as the program planning skills, motivational abilities, and creativity of a recreation specialist.

Geocaching for Schools and Communities eBook

Try out a fun activity from the new Geocaching for Schools and Communities.

50 Games for Going Green eBook

Healthy active living takes on a new meaning when we take a second look at items and find new ways to be active using old stuff.

Leisure Services Financial Management With Web Resource

Leisure services managers have their challenges, making them no different than managers in other professions.

Inclusive Physical Activity-2nd Edition

When designing physical activity experiences, practitioners make decisions on how best to organize the setting and the activity plans to promote all objectives being achieved.

Tumbling Basics (eBook, PDF Version)

Safety is an extremely important aspect of any tumbling program.

Global Summit '14 Minimize Injury Tumbling 240+ Diagrams

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Core TR values guide professionals' daily practice

The TR professional safeguards these values for clients, advocating for their rights to these values in their lives and providing the services to ensure them.

Have Bug Will Travel

Try out a fun activity from the new Geocaching for Schools and Communities.

Bicycling offers many benefits

The benefits of bicycling include more than freedom and independence. Cycling helps you save money on fuel, get into better shape, and remain healthier longer.

Concentrated effort needed when planning community-wide campaigns

Community-wide campaigns involve many community sectors and partnerships, are large in scale and require high-intensity efforts with sustained high visibility, and use communication techniques to develop the physical activity campaign messages.

JPAH commentary calls for more research on urban and outdoor recreation

We must improve our understanding of how Americans value the outdoors and the factors that explain participation in outdoor activities in our modern world. Current needs must be identified to help the federal government better establish its funding priorities.