Promoting Physical Activity and Health in the Classroom

Promoting Physical Activity and Health in the Classroom responds to the growing trend in K-6 education, where classroom teachers with no specific Physical Education training must increasingly implement activities in nontraditional settings—often with limited space, equipment, time, and planning. The text is colorful, engaging, compact, and user-friendly. Its practical organization, combined with detachable, sortable index-size cards comprising more than 260 separate activities, enables teachers to implement them immediately and provides a unique resource not previously available to instructors.

1. Improving the Health of America’s Children

2. Understanding Children’s Needs and Readiness for Physical Activity

3. Teaching Physical Activities Safely and Effectively

4. Improving the Effectiveness of Instruction and Feedback

5. Management and Discipline in an Activity Setting

6. Teaching Children with Special Needs

7. Integrating Physical Activity and Academics

8. Increasing Student’s Activity Levels

9. Helping Students Develop Physical Fitness

10. Improving Students' Nutrition

11. Teaching Sun Safety

12. Promoting Children's Health Beyond the School Day

Appendices

Glossary

Index

 

Activity Card Sections:

 

• Implementing the Instructional Activities (11 cards)
• Classroom-Based Activities (68 cards)
• Large Area Activities (46 cards)
• Basic Skills (36 cards)
• Sports on the Playground (37 cards)
• Multicultural Activities (28 cards)
• Nutrition and Sun Safety Activities (18 cards)
• Health and Fitness Activities (24 cards)

• Activity Cards provide a practical solution for classroom teachers to easily implement successful skill-building. They are packaged conveniently in a separate box and span seven instructional areas, including Classroom-Based Activities, Large Area Activities, Basic Skills, Playground Sports, Multicultural Activities, Nutrition & Sun Safety, and Health & Fitness, and an introductory section with implementation suggestions. Comprised of 268 individual, ready-to-go exercises and games, the Activity Cards include quick-reference icons that identify applicable classroom content tie-ins for subject matter in math, social studies, science, and language arts.
• Classroom Challenge and Back to Class features provide new teachers, without extensive classroom teaching experience, with realistic classroom scenarios and follow-up prompts. Suggested answers to the Classroom Challenge and Back to Class are found at the Companion Website.
  • Classroom Challenge is a targeted case study presented at the opening of each chapter, highlighting a potential on-the-ground scenario that new teachers might encounter as they implement the content. Reflecting the organization of the book, the Challenges range across 12 content areas.
  • Back to Class follows up on the original challenge in light of the material covered, offering different ways of viewing the problem and possible solutions.
• What About You? is a self-reflection feature that appears at the end of each chapter. Probing questions stimulate students and engage them with each chapter’s content on a more personal level, and are designed to encourage critical thinking and build confidence in teachers covering the material for the first time.
• Real World provides an additional way to interpret content through a “real world” lens by prompting more specific, probing, and varied responses from course-takers via multiple questions. This feature complements and expands on the applied aspects of the “Classroom Challenge” with new situations.
• News Clips underscore the importance and challenges of activity instruction in a classroom setting by using relevant news stories from varied sources to connect the content with current events. A complementary feature called “Take Action!” accompanies the News Clip as a springboard to suggest ways of applying the information for teachers, either directly in their classes or to enhance their own understanding of the material.
• Videos specific to classroom teachers, are available on both the Instructor Resource DVD and the Companion Website. Videos include a Classroom Management for Classroom Teachers video plus ten Classroom Activities, videos that model an activity in action.

 

Robert Pangrazi, Ph.D., taught for 31 years at Arizona State University, Tempe, in the Department of Exercise Science and Physical Education, and is now Professor Emeritus. An AAHPERD Honor Fellow and a Fellow in the Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, he was honored by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) with the Margie Hanson Distinguished Service Award. He is a best-selling author of numerous books and texts over the years, including multiple editions of Dynamic Physical Education for Elementary School Children, and Dynamic Physical Education for Secondary School Children, with Paul W. Darst (Benjamin Cummings). He co-edited Toward a Better Understanding of Physical Fitness and Activity: Selected Topics, for the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, with Chuck Corbin (a McGraw-Hill fitness and wellness author). In addition to numerous other books and texts, he has written many journal articles and scholarly papers for publication.  He is the lead author of our new first edition text, Promoting Physical Activity and Health in the Classroom, addressing the growing classroom teacher market.

www.pearsonhighered.com/pangrazi

• Companion Website for Promoting Physical Activity and Health in the Classroom
  http://www.aw-bc.com/pangrazi