Physical Education

NASPE's Teacher Toolbox  (T)
NASPE's Teacher Toolbox shares ideas for promoting your quality physical education, physical activity, or youth sports program. Every month will feature activity ideas that meet the national standards, elementary and secondary fitness calendars for you to send home with your students, bulletin board ideas, puzzles and games, information about the nation's health observances, and the newest resource materials.

123 Certificates  (Y,M,O,T)
Print custom sports certificates, sports certificate templates and personalized sports awards. 123 Certificates offers free rewards, recognition award ribbons and certificates to print. Print rewards for players, coaches, assistant coaches, moms, or a player that has worked hard.

How much exercise do you need?  (Y,M,O,T)
Physical Activity for Everyone from the Center for Disease Control. Includes information on The President's Challenge. Beginning March 20, you can win awards for staying active - and track your progress along with kids across America.

Let's Move  (Y,M)
America's move to raise a healthier generation of kids.

Physical Activity Tools and Resources  (Y,M)
Tools and resources help families and communities better understand physical activity and how it relates to maintaining a healthy weight.

Presidential Youth Fitness Program  (Y,M,O,T)
Empowering students to be fit for life. The national fitness education and assessment program helping schools achieve excellence in physical education.

The President's Challenge Activity Log  (Y,M,O,T)
You have to record your activities to earn awards in the President's Challenge.

How to Devil Stick  (Y,M,O,T)
Devil stick manipulation is a form of gyroscopic juggling, or equilibristics and is generally considered to be one of the 'circus arts'. The name, "Devil Stick" most likely comes from a confusion of 'diabolo' (to toss across) with 'diablo', or devil. Sometimes called "devil-sticking" other terms often used are: "twirling", "sticking" and "stick juggling".

Juggling  (Y,M,O,T)
Ancient Egyptian tomb paintings show people juggling. Juggling develops hand-eye coordination and keeps the kids amused for hours. Give it a try!

How to Juggle  (Y,M,O,T)

I Can Juggle Kids Page  (Y,M,O,T)
Take a ride through the world of Juggling: Juggling Information Service, International Jugglers Association, Juggling Festivals, Juggling Help, Juggling Software, Interviews with Jugglers, A Juggling Success Story, and the Juggling Hall of Fame

Physical Activity Resources  (T)
A resource from the National Dairy Council

KidsHealth  (T)
Full of excellent articles that can be reviewed by mom before using; because this is a secular site, not all content is useful to Christians who choose to teach their children to respond in a wise way.

PE Lesson Plan and Activity Page -  (T)
Start with the ABC's of PE, found under Lesson Plans, and take off from there. There is too much to list in this small space, but if you want the big list, click on the Overview link & see the hundreds of lesson plans, activities, and sports rules all listed.

Dairy Council of CA  (T)
Online interactive games for everyone; free resources for educators in CA