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    • Quality Physical Education
    • Advocacy Resources
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  • Effective Teaching
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      • General Strategies
      • Adapted Physical Education
      • English Language Learners
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      • Social and Emotional Learning
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      • Social Justice and Diversity
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      • Teaching Styles
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      • Fitnessgram Guidelines and Resources
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      • Class Management Overview
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      • Activities and Lessons
      • DIY and Hacks
      • National Observances Related to PE
      • Organizations
      • Safety
    • Fitness >
      • Activity Promotion and Adherence
      • Creative Fitness Activities
      • Stress Management Techniques
      • Health, Fitness, and Nutrition Resources
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      • Ice Breakers and More
      • Instructional Dance Videos
      • Dance Resources
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Planning Physical Education Units

Changing the "Culture of Games": "...​This "culture of games" exists in our physical education history and will exist in our physical education futures unless we are prepared to acknowledge that it exists and take steps to create better physical education experiences for our students...."​
  • ​​Lesson Planning and Instructional Year Design
  • ​Making Sense of Student Learning Targets​
  • My Planning Process​
  • #PhysEd Curriculum Mapping​​
  • ​​Standards-Based Physical Education​
  • Teaching with Intention
  • Times When You Wont Hit a 50% Physical Activity Target in a PE Class
SHAPE America Appropriate Practices
  • 2.3.2 Stretching, if included in the lesson, occurs ​only after​ an appropriate general warmup activity and is appropriate and beneficial for maintaining and improving flexibility.
  • ​3.1.1 The physical education curriculum has an obvious scope and sequence, based on goals and objectives that are appropriate for all students and that are derived from national or state standards.
  • 3.1.2 The physical educator includes motor skill development, physiological and biomechanical concepts, health-enhancing physical activities that lead to a physically active lifestyle, and opportunities to develop appropriate social behaviors.
  • 3.1.3 Instruction follows a scope and sequence that is designed to scaffold prior learning and develop mature forms of skills and strategies.
  • 3.1.4 Teachers design progressions that allow students to build on previously learned content and skills, by focusing on lifetime activities.

  • Revisit content throughout the year.

K-12 ROAD MAP FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION
The Diamond Conceptual Framework helps illustrate the progression of skills and concepts taught in physical education, which are guided by national and state standards and research on physical activity and physical education. While we believe this is a useful framework, we acknowledge that there are other philosophies that can also achieve quality physical education.
K-12 ROAD MAP FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION
NATIONAL STANDARDS AND GRADE LEVEL OUTCOMES
  • ​SHAPE America National Standards and Grade Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education​​
  • ​Student Friendly Graphics from Twitter

Grade Level Outcomes - App Version 1
(shows progression of GLOs through grade levels)
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  • Elementary Version 1
  • Middle Version 1
  • High School Version 1
  • All Grades Version 1
Grade Level Outcomes - App Version 2
(shows all GLOs for a specific grade level.)
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  • Elementary Version 2
  • Middle Version 2
  • High School Version 2
  • All Grades Version 2
PHYSICAL EDUCATION'S "HALL OF SHAME" ACTIVITIES
  • Harm Free PE
  • ​​List of Games Inducted into Hall of Shame
  • ​PE Ain’t What it Used to Be​​
  • Physical Education Hall of Shame FREE Resource (2020)​
  • ​​​The Physical Education Hall of Shame I (1992)​​​​
  • ​​The Physical Education Hall of Shame II (1994)​​
  • ​The Physical Education Hall of Shame III (1996)​​
  • The Physical Education Hall of Shame IV (2013)​
  • ​​Was I Glorifying Violence with these Physical Education Games?

Physical education hall of shame
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WHY DODGEBALL IS AN INAPPROPRIATE ACTIVITY for P.E.
  • ​Dangerous Dodge Ball: 4 Lawsuits Stemming from P.E.
  • ​​Dodgeball Is Fine for Adult Leagues, but Not for PE Class
  • ​Dodging Dodgeball
  • Dodgy Ball: It's Not Just a Sport. It's a Perspective​
  • Liability by Jamie Sparks​
  • ​Researchers: Dodgeball is More Than a Game, It's 'Legalized Bullying'
  • ​Rethink Human Target Games in Physical Education
  • ​SHAPE America's Position Statement on Dodgeball​
  • Should Dodgeball Ever Die?
  • Should Schools Still Play Dodgeball?​

  • Around the Horn Health and Physed Episode 25: Dodgeball (podcast)
  • The Dodgeball Paradox (podcast)
  • Why I Quit Dodgeball (podcast)

dodgeball in physical education
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DESIGNING STANDARD BASED UNITS
Select standards/outcomes based on the developmental level of your students, which may differ from their grade level, ​and include additional learning objectives to meet the needs of your students and community.
Standards based physical education unit
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DESIGNING STANDARD BASED LESSONS
How to Design a Standards Based Lesson
Breakdown of a Standards Based Lesson
Key Questions for Lesson Planning in Physical Education
(3rd edition Instructional Models for Physical Education, Metzler, M., 2011; Exhibit 6.7, p. 147)
Key Questions for Lesson Planning in Physical Education
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UNPACKING STANDARDS
​Standards and student learning outcomes are often comprehensive. After reading each Standard/Outcome, ask yourself “What do my students need to know and be able to do to meet this Standard/Outcome?” The table below shows how many student learning outcomes can be created from one Psychomotor Standard. Find more information on unpacking standards from The Physical Educator.
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Using DOMAINS OF LEARNING ​taxonomies to write Learning objectives
Below are examples of student learning outcomes for the psychomotor, cognitive, and affective domains of learning. The purpose of the taxonomies below are to make it easier to sequence learning tasks in a logical order of difficulty. For more information see our ​Domains of Learning and Writing Learning Objectives page. 
Additional resources
  • ​Curriculum Development Part 1 (​Podcast)
  • ​​​​Curriculum Development Part 2 (Podcast)
  • Layering Elementary PE Instruction (Video)
  • Physical Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (CDC)​​​
  • ​​Sample Units (Colorado Department of Education)
  • Scope and Sequence Example (SPARK)
  • ​​Yearly Plan Template K-5 Template (PhysEdReview)
  • Yearly Plan Template 6-8 Template (PhysEdReview)

​​Promoting Quality Physical Education through Advocacy and Free Access to Information and Resources
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