Physical Education
Definition of Physical Education in the Coordinated School Health ModelA planned, sequential K-12 curriculum that provides cognitive content and learning experiences in a variety of activity areas such as basic movement skills; physical fitness; rhythms and dance; games; team, dual, and individual sports; tumbling and gymnastics; and aquatics. Quality physical education should promote, through a variety of planned physical activities, each student's optimum physical, mental, emotional, and social development, and should promote activities and sports that all students enjoy and can pursue throughout their lives. Qualified, trained teachers teach physical activity. (Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/cshp/)
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Tools and Resources
- The Need for Physical Education and Activity in Our Schools
- Quality Physical Education - How Does Your Program Rate?
- Promote Active Recess
- Recommended Community Strategies and Measurements to Prevent Obesity in the United States
Useful Websites
- Action for Healthy Kids
- Coalition for Activity and Nutrition to Defeat Obesity (CanDo)
- Fitsource: Tools for afterschool providers
- Missouri Physical Fitness Assessment Manual (PDF)
- Missouri Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
- National Coordinating Committee on School Health and Safety
- NASPE STARS
- PE4life
- Show-Me Standards