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Julie M
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| | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 3:47 pm: |       |
The time for physical education is already very limited with PE teachers seeing their students maybe once a week. Here in Hawai`i, some PE teachers see their students once every 2 weeks. To also teach other subjects like math, science and topics in language arts would be difficult. However, to reinforce concepts learned in those subjects would not take that much more effort. We use numbers a lot in PE, could we not also count in different languages, use letters instead or some other variation? Movement activities could have students form their bodies into different letter shapes and talk about what kind of pathways are in those letters. We can reinforce so much of what kids learn in the classroom. Crossing the states, where steps (using step counters) could be equated to distances from state to state. On the other hand, it wouldn't hurt classroom teachers to provide movement opportunities in class with concepts the kids are learning. With so few PE teachers in schools, and with the importance of movement to learning, so much more movement can be planned. I've heard about a classroom teacher who has used macaroni with her students to make an art project with a discussion on macaroni and how it could be part of a healthy diet. She then had her students take their projects outside and using their projects as guides, asked the children to shape their bodies to form some of the macaroni shapes they included. Thanks for the question.
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Margaret Sikes
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| | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 3:48 pm: | |
I am looking for articles on exercise science pertaining to middle and elementary age students.
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Anonymous
| | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 3:48 pm: | |
I am looking for information about tranfer fine motor skills to writing and reading skills
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karenj4hoops
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| | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 3:49 pm: | |
I agree that there are many ways to integrate math and language arts into an elementary physical education program. Math works very well; We are always using math terms, such as perimeter or rectangle, and children are often keeping tally sheets or serving as scorekeepers. There are numerous ways to incorporate language into the PE curriculum. For example, today one of our stations
was a simple type of "Spelling Basketball,"as we have six ball-handling stations set up this week. Math relays and word relays are easy to run, and the children appear to enjoy these types of relays.
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Daniel
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| | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 3:50 pm: | |
I am looking for lesson plans with one theme that could be used for an entire quarter,semester,year? I have heard of schools that used one theme, such as Native Americans,and the teachers had creative lessons that integrated activities into their lessons. |
Mel Sprain
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| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 6:02 pm: | |
I think that it is great to integrate other subjects into PE I do spelling, math and shoshone language on a daily basis, but I think that integrating PE into the regular classroom is even better, I put together handouts for my elementary teachers on simple ways to get kids moving throughout the day and the brain based research that suggests improvements in students abilities, the book Brain Gym is an easy book for classrooms to integrate movement daily. |
Shawna J. Southern (Ride9478)
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Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 8:49 pm: | |
Hi, In reference to what we can do as physical educators to teach reading and math, etc., in our classes, much of what we do does that already, at least indirectly. According to Eric Jensen's, 2001, Brain Based Learning, motor skills do lead to academic skills. Here are some examples.
Motor Skills using dynamic balance such as, centerline skills, visualization, sequencing and associative thinking assist with reading skills in the classroom.
Motor skills using body awareness such as eye/foot coordination, patterning, visual discrimination, anaylsis, and deductive reasoning, assist with math skills in the classroom.
Motor skills using unilateral, bilateral and cross laterality such as spatial coordination, verbal ability, sequence synthesis, and abstract thinking assist with both written and oral language skills.
Motor skills using locomotor skills including eye/hand, hand/foot tracking, memory and reason, organizing and inductive reasoning assist with general knowledge in the classroom.
So as you can see, if you think about the activities you already do, many of them are assisting the classroom teachers in their quest to do their jobs. One of the problems is, is that we don't advocate enough, so others are not familiar with the benefits we have to offer to the overall picture of educating a child. I meet my teachers at the door when they come to pick up their classes. At that time, I give them a brief synopsis of what we did that day, and I include something about how it will, or should help the students learn in the classroom.
There are certainly lots of activities that can be done during physical education that can promote literacy, math, geography, etc., but it might be a good idea to let your teachers know how else you help them, and how important physical education is in the big picture.
There are also lots of people out there now who are presenting information about brain based learning, try a search on google, I'm sure you'll find lots of pertinent stuff. |
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