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Steve Jefferies (Admin)
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 29
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 2:05 pm: |       |
What are some of your methods for making physical education cross-curricular, incorporating PE with subjects such as English, Math, Spelling, etc., in your classroom? Please share with others how you combine these topics. |
Suzanne Faia
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 11:06 am: | |
I do an activity called Fitness Monopoly. I set up around the perimeter of my gym polyspots with task cards underneath. The task cards direct students to certain areas and/or to do certain activities. I usually pair a strong reader with a weaker reader (given to me by the classroom teacher). The older students usually just participate by themselves. I have since changed it and have added pictures to my task cards as to aide the students even more. Every 3-4 minutes dice are rolled and the students move that many spaces ahead. |
Scott Tomassetti (Scottt40)
Member
Username: Scottt40
Post Number: 26
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 5:46 am: | |
When looking at interdisciplinary objective, I try to stay within the content area, and extend it to include various interdisciplinary objects. Wellness concepts, especially related to physical fitness, are a great starting point. Using logs and journals enables the students to learn about ratios, conversions, time, distances, measurement, and analysis of data as it relates to their overall health and wellness. This also creates a Dewey like approach to teaching through science based projects where students compare physical bests, and create plans for achieving those goals. Because students themselves are asked to analyze, interpret, and synthesize personal fitness parameters this type of approach also develops the higher order thinking skills needed for advance logic required for many subjects. This style of teaching also offers long term development of healthy lifestyle habits in a student directed environment.
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william atlas (Billatlas)
Junior Member
Username: Billatlas
Post Number: 10
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 8:47 am: | |
All great ideas. We also incorperate colonial and native american dances and games during our revolutionary war period. |
Terri Covey (Coveyte)
Senior Member
Username: Coveyte
Post Number: 15
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 2:48 pm: | |
I just posted this in the coaching secion, and want to link to that post here. For anyone who wishes to incorporate action/movement into 'normal' academic areas, or wishes to incorporate academics into PE, these handouts may offer you some great ideas.
One of the PDF handouts worth checking out is the 3 - 5 grade link. If this is too young for your student age group, adapt them up to meet the needs of your students.
http://www.pelinks4u.org/naspeforum/discus/message s/4/647.html?1128462296
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Joe Herzog (Bigfish344)
Junior Member
Username: Bigfish344
Post Number: 10
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 10:43 pm: | |
For an outdoor ed. unit (I did fly fishing/Trout in the Classroom) assignments included identifying about 50 lakes, rivers and towns/cities, in Calif. Also had to figure the distance to and from certain places and determine the cost at 20mpg and $2.00/gal (I wish!). Kids also had to figure the cost of basic equipment, from catalogs/online/local sports stores. Did similar activities with skiing and golf. Recording heart rates, fitness records/% of improvement/pedometer records, etc all bring math into the program. My fencing unit was used in our school wide Rennisance Fair. So much of what we do is inherently cross curricular, it was not hard to find teachers willing to share assignments. I taught Newton's Laws, Levers and Axes of Rotation as applied to physical activity, early in the year, and the science teachers followed up shortly there after with their own scientific applications and the kids tests in science were markedly improved after getting the similar material in both classes. Since learning is re-inforced when the brain recalls material from multiple sources, cross curricular learning is, in my mind, patently a superior learning modality. The methods are without end. Joe Herzog |
Kelly DiDomenico
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 11:52 am: | |
Orienteering can also be cross-curricular. When orienteering you can have students take a field guid with them to identify different plants, trees, and/or native birds. I know in Chicago they teach physics in several of their units-for example, ask students if their vollyball serve is going into the net, what could be changed to make the ball go over the net as far as velocity, force, ect. Many PE teachers do teach cross-curriculum and may not even know it! |
Gary James O'Keeffe (Garyjokeeffe)
New member
Username: Garyjokeeffe
Post Number: 1
Registered: 10-2011
| | Posted on Monday, October 17, 2011 - 2:24 pm: | |
I am currently a physical education major and a Math minor in the University of Limerick, Ireland. Last year I was on teaching practice and I found out that I had to teach the same year group in Physical education and Math. I decided to do a cross-curricular approach, combining HRA with graphs/charts. To do this I got students to take note of their heart rates at various intervals during power, muscular strength, muscular endurance, aerobic, and anaerobic circuits. I then got students to draw these graphs in math class and compare their heart rates. Students seemed to enjoy this result as it thought them how to keep track of their own heart rates and it also made math fun. |
Dawn Andrews (Andrewsdm)
Junior Member
Username: Andrewsdm
Post Number: 4
Registered: 2-2012
| | Posted on Monday, October 15, 2012 - 7:58 am: | |
All teachers in our district are required to incorporate writing into our classes. In PE, we must have one in-class writing assignment per month. The good part of the requirement is that we also have the flexibility to use this in a way that enhances the students understanding of PE concepts. The writings are to fit into the standards and expectations of the given subject. All of this is done in an effort to give students practice for the state writing assessment. |
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