Resources & Publications
SHAPE America offers valuable health and physical education resources and journals to help you guide your students towards a more healthy and fit lifestyle by implementing quality physical education programming.
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Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD)
SHAPE America’s cornerstone journal, the peer-reviewed JOPERD has been continuously published since 1896. Appealing to practitioners and academics alike, it reaches 12,000+ readers and provides a greater variety of information on health, physical education, recreation, and dance issues than any other publication in the field.
Lesson Planning for Skills-Based Elementary Health Education, Second Edition
The text offers effective skills-based learning activities, lessons, units, and assessments for your classroom that you can use as they are or with modifications to meet the needs of your students. You can use this text to build a completely new curriculum or to supplement your existing curriculum, providing a smooth transition from a content-based approach to a skills-based approach. The authors explain the rationale and foundation for making that transition, putting the lesson plans, activities, and assessments into context as you learn how to implement a skills-based approach.
National Physical Education Standards – 4th Edition
National Physical Education Standards, Fourth Edition, is the go-to book for all physical education teachers, providing the framework for creating curricula, designing lesson plans, and developing assessments. Created by SHAPE America – Society of Health and Physical Educators, the leading advocate for health and physical education, this text unveils the revised standards and new Grade-Span Learning Indicators, offers practical guidelines for implementation, and advances the idea that physical education means equity, access, and inclusion for all.
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