Physical education

Physical fitness helps students to learn healthy habits, but physical education students do not participate as intensely as they should in physical fitness activities. Although being physically fit can improve the quality of life, most students do not enjoy participating in fitness activities in physical education classes. Woodson-Smith, Dorwart, and Linder found that 42% of girls did not like doing conditioning activities in class (2015). The number one response for most disliked fitness…

Health and Physical Education Rationale Health and Physical Education (HPE) is vital for all children and adolescents to achieve their potential. As one of the five key learning areas, HPE develops lifelong skills, including improved social and emotional health, physical development and cognitive growth. The health and well-being of all students are considered, as developmentally appropriate skills are practiced in a positive and safe environment. While acquiring knowledge and understanding…

Physical activity, as a prevention strategy, is universally viewed as the best approach to counteract the increase in global childhood obesity. Prevention can have an especially lasting impact in younger individuals. As previously mentioned, there are multiple levels at which prevention may be instituted: individual, household, community, and health-care. At an individual level, caretakers should be targeted as much if not more than the child themselves 1. Therefore, effective prevention at a…

Mandatory Physical Education for Youth Should Physical Education be required in high schools and middle schools and be mandatory to graduate. I think so. There are many positives, and a few negatives, with this debated topic. Sufferers of obesity could have the chance they’ve always wanted and needed to get thin. By changing physical education to be a more rigorous workout, and requiring it, kids will have no option but take the class, or fail to complete core curriculum and not graduate. The…

one point in time. Although physical education is a standard part of school curriculum, children are unfortunately not getting the activity outside of school. To help increase physical activity rates in school aged children in the city of Davenport, Iowa an intervention will be put into place that will be designed for both the parents and their children to attend together. The purpose of the dual attendance will allow for the parents to fully understand what the physical activity needs are for…

concepts of physical science. The outcomes are linked to the Australian Curriculum, Science/Year 2/Science understanding/physical sciences/ACSSU033 (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2014). The activity is designed to promote children’s hands-on and mind-on skills, by applying their prior knowledge and understanding of how objects perform in water. The activity will also assist children in developing their investigative skills in science and other areas of…

Physical Development: 1. A. One example of the child’s gross motor skills is when the child left the classroom to do something outside. There were two grades in one classroom, one being first graders and the other being second graders, they were working in their class finishing their work they had from previous days and finishing their breakfast. The child had finished and ran outside to throw out his trash and ran back in breathing heavily. B. Another example of the child’s gross motor…

Newton, & Carson, 2008). The increase in obesity among adolescents is partially due to a decrease in physical activity (Gao et al., 2010). Multiple guidelines suggest that children and adolescents participate in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity for a minimum of 60 minutes a day to improve their health and well-being (Lee, Kuo, Fanaw, Perng, & Juang, 2011). While it’s evident that consistent physical activity is beneficial to one’s health, there continues to be a problem associated with…

During a time where high school students have been exposed to technology since infancy, physical education class has been taking advantage of the situation. It is so easy to get most of the tedious aspects of teaching done with a few taps of a touchscreen, so the majority of the time can be spent on movement and learning. This can be done through…

relationship between pedometers and student motivation for physical activity. The research question is: Does the use of pedometers increase student motivation for physical activity amongst 4th grade students? It is hypothesized that the use of pedometers increases student motivation for physical activity amongst 4th grade students. Methodology This quasi-experimental study examined if the use of pedometers can increase student motivation for physical activity amongst fourth grade students.…