PHYSICAL EDUCATION
PHYSICAL EDUCATIONGOAL
To provide each student with the knowledge, skills, confidence and motivation to engage in a healthy active lifestyle and to create a supportive environment that is conducive to enjoyable life long physical activity opportunities for students, families, staff and community.
A 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.
(You can join the DPI Physical Education / Athletics listserve by contacting Healthy Schools at 919.807.3939)
RESOURCES
Energizers
Classroom Based Physical Activities!
The way teachers integrate physical activity with academic concepts.
Check out these short, about 10-minute, activities that classroom teachers
can use to provide activity to children.
State Board of Education Policy: Healthy Active Children
Physical Activity and Recreation for with Disabilities
Everyone, including people with disabilities,
can enjoy the numerous physical, psychological, and social benefits of increased
physical
activity. According to the 1996 surgeon general's report, people
with disabilities are less likely to engage in regular moderate
physical activity than people
without disabilities, yet they have a similar, and sometimes greater, need
for health promotion and disease prevention opportunities. The
NCODH has implemented 2 projects that are designed to enhance the
number of opportunities that persons with disabilities have to
engage in physical activity.
BAM!
Brought to you by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). BAM!
was created to answer kids' questions on health issues and recommend ways
to make their bodies and minds healthier, stronger, and safer. BAM! also
serves as an aid to teachers, providing them with interactive activities
to support their health and science curriculums that are educational
and fun.
Be Active Kids
Be Active Kids is an early childhood (ages 4-5) physical activity and nutrition
curriculum and kit for child care centers. The program focuses on establishing
an early, positive relationship with one’s body through participation in fun physical activities and education about healthy
eating concepts. The overall goal of the kit is to promote positive attitudes
towards physical activity and healthy eating.
Eat Smart, Move More NC
A statewide initiative that promotes increased opportunities for physical
activity and healthy eating through policy and environmental change. Increasing
public awareness of the need for such changes to support increased physical
activity and healthy eating opportunities is an integral aspect of the initiative.
The ultimate goal of the initiative is to promote healthy behaviors that reduce
risks and prevent disease related to inactivity and unhealthy eating behaviors.
